MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO, Le Ultime Parole Famose, 1967
7,6 x 12,6 cm
artist’s book, letterpress, stapled
text in Italian and English
edition 60
published by the artist
naturally discoloured due to its wood-containing paper, light bump top right
good, uncommon in this condition
€ 795,- plus € 18,- registered mail
inv.MPis 155
This booklet is the first artist’s book by Michelangelo Pistoletto in a limited edition of 60 copies as is stated by him in a publication of Musée d’Art Contemporain in Lyon in France: “Michelangelo Pistoletto Continenti del Tempo”, 2001.
The text is both in Italian and English, the latter being very uncommon at the time! The first line in the book may be considered as the kernel of the whole manifesto and states what it means to be an artist:
“When a man realizes that he has two lives – an abstract one for his mind and a concrete one which is also for his mind – he ends up either like a mad-man, who, out of fear, hides one of his lives and plays the other as a role, or like the artist, who has no fear and who is willing to risk both of them.”
History of prices:
Bruno Tonini/Tonini Editore, Rome, Italy February 2025 € 1.000,- (rusted staples)
Tim Byers Art Books, Richmond, UK GBP 650.- April 2023 (discoloured)
eBay-vetiver62, Firenze, Italy US$ 1,800.- April 2023 (poor and discoloured)
Ellis Bierbar, Milano, Italy € 700,- April 2022 (condition unknown)
Tim Byers Art Books, Richmond, UK GBP 650.- October 2021 (discoloured)
eBay-vetiver62, Firenze, Italy US$ 1,800.- October 2021 (poor and discoloured)
eBay-many-giochi, Rome US$ 550.- October 2008 (tear and discoloured)
Barneby’s US$ 850.- January 2018 (discoloured)
CLÉMENT RODZIELSKI, Comment, Mieux, Jouir, Noisette, 2018
42 x 15,5 x 1 cm
artist’s book, text, ring binder, 22 pp. including couver
edition 200
published by Connoisseurs, Paris, France
Ref. Connoisseurs, Paris
The first letters of Cyan, Magenta, Jaune (yellow) and Noir (black) are used for making 85 groups of four words featured in this artist’s book.
CLÉMENT RODZIELSKI, memo book Cyan, Magenta, Jaune, Noire, 2017
13 x 8 x 1 cm
hand written text, note book, 2 pp.
series of 20 unique books
spiral binding, covers come in four colours, here blue
signed
published by Connoisseurs, Paris, France
MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Underwater I, 2008
each 19,9 x 13,6 cm
2 digital prints in book by Dutch poet Rozalie Hirs, 16 pp.
signed and numbered on last page
edition 100
published by Uitgeverij 69, Hiversum, Netherlands
HAMISH FULTON, Nepal, 1975
20,8 x 28,7 cm
artist’s book, oblong format, SC
edition 1000
published by Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
splendid copy
€ 185,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.HFul 000-pr
This is an artist’s book with full page photos of a 20 day walk, a journey from Dolalghat following the trail to the Everest icefall. Colour and b/w illustrations.
LAWRENCE WEINER, Tracce-Traces, 1970
17 x 11 cm
artist’s book, 55 pp.
edition 1000
published by Sperone Editore, Turin, Italy
more than good condition, hardly yellowed
€ 275,- plus € 18,- registered mail
History of prices:
Marcus Campbell Art Books, London, UK € 300,- March 2021
Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, Germany € 120,- January 2007
VOEBE DE GRUYTER, Mist Walks 1996-1999, 1999
21 x 15 cm,
artist’s book, stapled, 16 pp., SC
light weight and semi transparent plastic bag, ink stamped card, dustcover comes in three colours
signed, dated
edition ca 50
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
inv.VdG 451
This book contains stories about mist seen by the artist in various situations and places. In a plastic sleeve envelope at the back of this artist’s book one finds a very thin bag to be pulled over one’s head, as an added card reads: “Suggestion for a mist walk”.
MARIANNE VIERØ, Oh John, 2016
ca 30 x 21,3 cm
SC, stapled, hand numbered, semi-translucent envelope
edition 100, number 47/100, here also signed
published by Officin, Copenhagen, Denmark
Coll. K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
In order to escape the usual logics Marianne Vierø experiments with abstract images and language that create a picture in the head. In this way a discharge takes place and the abstract images are suddenly differently understood. A process that is always fun to see where it may lead to. It is no wonder that Marianne Vierø at an early stage participated in OAOA / The Oceans Academy of Arts, a magazine for playing with ideas of experimental systems of looking and reading. The pseudo institution presents itself as real and plays with its own illusive image as a stage for the artists reflections. The magazine aims to de-condition and un-learn in relation to the critique of reason and common logics. No-sense, fragmentation, de-funtion and a-chronology is what is looked for.
KLAAS KLOOSTERBOER, Ritueel van de bezetting / Ritual of occupation, 2002
photo copy print, 22 pp., hand drawn cross on page 9
Dutch / English text by Kees van Gelder
edition 100 of which 50 are signed and numbered
here signed, number 17/50
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
€ 50,- plus € 8- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.KK 000
In 2002 Klaas Kloosterboer visited the renovated men’s toilet rooms at Schiphol Airport and was confronted with newly designed urinals that depict a fly target embossed on the porcelain. It matched fully with his ideas on occupying empty spaces on canvasses he was dealing with as a painter. Obviously this sight was a good reason to picture it for a photo work that he used for the cover of this publication.
OTTO EGBERTS, Verspreide Koppen, 1988
21 x 15 cm
photo copy printing, 38 pp., HC, dustcover
edition 60, here nr 61/60
signed, numbered, dated
published by Stichting Archipel, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
€ 60,- excl. registered mail
Dutch artist Otto Egberts started his career in the 1980’s. His subject is the individual that stands alone in an enstranged sub-realism expressed through painting, drawing and installations. In 2012 he started an in Dutch written blog criticizing various elites in society and predicting the downfall of the Occident.
In “Verspreide Koppen” each page on the right depicts a head dramatically tormented by strange objects and geometrical forms.
