YANN SÉRANDOUR, [Supplement] – A Needle In A Haystack, 2004
24 x 17 cm / 23,9 x 16,8 cm
diptych card / printed inlay, offset
edition 50, neither numbered, nor signed as issued
This work comes with a catalogue raisonné “Specific & General Works” (1993) of Lawrence Weiner, of which Sérandour’s supplement is a derived version.
The price shown on the back of the book of Lawrence Weiner was 369 French francs, equal to 54,88 euros. Yann Sérandour seems to have said about the selling price of his supplement: ‘Les comptes ronds faisant les bons amis’ (i.e. “Precision in money affairs keeps friendship’), explaining the very precise price of 45,12 euros printed on the back of the diptych.
JOHN BOCK, Meech elasticity, 2004
21 x 15 cm
artist’s book with pop up in center, 92 pp.
edition unknown, 30 copies
1st edition signed, numbered
mint
published by CCA, Kitakyushu, Japan
€ 150,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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Margin scheme
A collage of a pictorial diary with reproduced handwritten statements in Germanish English with collages of personal as well as found photos and printed matter. The cover “Bänsch – Kauferverhalten – 4. Auflage” is such an example of found printed matter. Colophon in English and Japanese.
History of prices:
The Land of Nod, Ostend, Belgium € 95,- (unsigned)
Paule Lean Bisson-Millet, Beilstein, Germany January 2025 € 50,- (unsigned)
Buchhandlung Wien/Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany May 2013 € 75,- (unsigned)
KENDELL GEERS, Point Blank, 2004
21 x 15 x 0,8 cm
artist’s book. offset, bullet holes, gun powder sooth; comes in cellophane bag
edition 30 signed, numbered
published by Imschoot, Uitgevers, Ghent, Belgium
€ 1.400,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered mail
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Seven bullet holes are randomly shot into the blank pages of this artist book. The cover has residue of gun powder. The publisher suggests that Kendell Geers’ exile from his homeland of South Africa and its violence during Apartheid inspired him to make this multiple with gun shots. The sooth of gunpowder is spread over the front of the cover and the cellophane bag has created several hardly visible hair thin scratches in the layer of sooth.
History of prices:
Saint Martin Bookshop, Brussels, Belgium November 2023 € 500,- unsigned
Saint Martin Bookshop, Brussels, Belgium November 2023 € 350,- unsigned
GERHARD RICHTER, War Cut, 2004
25 x 21 cm
hard cover, 340 pp.
edition 2000; nrs 1-200 signed with felt-tip pen on penultimate page, numbered
2,000 copies, numbered with stamp on the penultimate page, of these a few copies are also signed, dated and marked h.c. in felt-tip pen on the penultimate page,
150 copies, signed, dated and numbered in blue ballpoint on penultimate page
published by Walther Koenig, Cologne, 2004 here unsigned
inv.GR 000-pr
In May 2002, Gerhard Richter photographed 216 details of his “Abstraktes Bild Nr 648-2”, 1987. Working over a period of several weeks, Richter combined these 10 x 15 cm details with 165 texts on the Iraq war, published in the German FAZ newspaper on March 20 and 21. ‘War Cut’ follows an ever denser rhythm in which texts and gaps take up the same amount of space as the pictures, creating a strictly composed work of open and closed layouts and their mirror images. A conceptual artist’s book about the war in Iraq and one may say war in general communicated through newspapers.
Extra information:
In 2012 a second edition in English was published with a different book cover:
History of prices – signed version edition 200
Bengtsson Fine Arts, Landskrona, Sweden $ 2700.- November 2010
KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON, Seamsea, 2003
each 14,8 x 21,2 x 0,4 cm
6 books, ring-bound
stiff hand stitched cards pages, letterpress on cardboard cover
complete set of 6 in pencil hand numbered copies, 6 inlays with colophon
title in six languages; hence 6 books
edition 250 mint
published by Silver Press Reykjavík, Iceland
inv.KG 019-pr
Kristján Gudmundsson makes conceptual art not only related to ideas on the potentials of materials, lines, space and time, but also quite often related to nature. He makes sculptures of e.g. paper rolls combined with solid graphite and calls these drawings. Among other works he makes books with e.g. pages full of lines until he has catched the distance “Once around the sun”. Like many concept artists, he visualizes the intangible in a simple description, an emblem or a concrete object like a book. KvG, August 2014.
In “Seamsea” the artist has made drawings of emblematic sea waves on thick cardboard pages. It comes in a set of six books with the title in six different languages: English, Icelandic, Dutch, French, Norwegian and Chinese, i.e. Seamsea, Saumasjór, Zoomzee, Mercouture, Sømsjø and [Chinese characters]. Each book contains three drawings that are made of blue yarn; machine sewn on each page. Due to the hard labour to make these hand made books no more than 100 sets have been produced until now. All mint copies.
JILL MAGID, Particular Old Dutch Houses and some other Royal Things, 2003
7 x 10,5 cm, full size unfolded: 60,4 x 20,8 cm
publication with tipped in leporello
edition 55
published by Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam
€ 50,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JMag 000
JOHN BOCK, Gribbohm, 2001
30 x 24 x 1,2 cm / 11.8 x 9.6 x 0.5 inches
offset book with two double fold out pages, 116 pp.
German text, with English translation
mint
€ 110,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JBoc 000-pr
John Bock’s stage-like walk-in sculptures constructed from fabrics and junk form the backdrop for his lavish semi-theatrical and semi-improvised performances. Referencing everything from rural life to various half-baked philosophies to the Vienna Actionists, a key influence on Bock, Bock’s performances blend topic fragments from the sciences, arts and the everyday into a volatile and enthralling mixture. The focus here is on the complex relationships between art and the social and between the social and the individual. Laid out in striking collage fashion. John Bock as Gribbohm traces 12 of Bock’s “lectures”, as he terms his performances, with copious illustrations and text by this artist who attempts to make sense of this world by creating one of his own devising.
ELIZABETH PEYTON Prince Eagle, 2001
24,8 x 18,7 cm
SC, artist’s book in plastic cover, full page color plates, 144 pages
published by Powerhouse Books, New York, USA
edition of 3000
mint
inv.EPey 000-pr
ELIZABETH PEYTON Tony sleeping, 2000
15,9 x 12,2 cm
SC, small artist’s book with photos and drawings in print on Tony sleeping.
condition: wears on cover
SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Nutoen, 1997
23,8 x 16,7 cm
offset, 2 volumes (16 pp. + 32 pp.), transparent sleeve
edition 500
published by Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, 1997
This publication could beconsidered as half catalogue, half artist book. The picture on the front of volume I and the picture on the back of volume II form together one image of a sculpture installation ‘Disturb me’ (1997) of Sigurdur Gudmundsson. Both volumes come with a Dutch text by the artist about the making of the book and the works in his exhibition in the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem.
