FRANZ GRAF, Schauraum : Kunstraum, 1992
27 x 19 cm
SC, black and white offset print, 16 pp., stapled
publisher unknown
mint
rare
€ 120,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.FGra 998
Pages feature images of showroom mirrors and cars with texts on the car windows. Each black and white photo shows a circular form cut out from the image below on the same page. Apart from the first page, the publication looks like an artist’s book or a wrong catalogue of a car dealer with on the first page a text by curator Dr. Otmar Rychlik. This installation by Franz Graf was made in a car showroom of Mercedes Benz in Vienna, Austria, in 1992.
DAVID SHRIGLEY, DDWOPT Idiot, 1996
14,2 x 10,2 cm
SC, unpaginated
series of unique hand drawn cover
edition 400
published by The Armpit Press, Glasgow, Scotland
condition: used with smudged and aged couver very rare
€ 250,- plus € 12,- Track and Trace registered mail
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Very rare edition and early artist’s book by David Shrigley, his 7th self-produced book. The cover is a drawing in coloured felt tip pen. The letters on the cover are standing for ‘Drawings Done Whilst On Phone To Idiot’.
The Armpit Press is a self-publishing press created by David Shrigley.
JOEP VAN LIESHOUT, 3000 Prefabricated sanitary units for application of mobile-homes, 1992
29,7 x 21 cm
SC, 12 pp. edition 50
published by the artist
condition: very good, cover slightly discoloured
€ 180,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered mail
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ULISES CARRIÓN, The Muxlows, 1978
22,9 x 11 cm
SC, 100 pp.
edition 300
published by Verlaggalerie Leaman, Düsseldorf, Germany
condition: slightly aged, at cover top side 3 tiny dents
€ 1.200,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered mail
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Introduction on fly leave: ‘The Muxlows’ is the history of an English family from Yorkshire. I found it in 1972, in the city of Leeds, in the last pages of a badly damaged bible. U.C.’
This book is a dry list of names that goes back to 1835 when Thomas Muxlow was born. It is the start of genealogical facts limited to birth and death. The first chapter “Parents names” is followed by “Childrens names”, “Marriages” and “Other family events”. In this way a family story is told as a family drama of generations, i.e. family members come and go. Again with this book Carrión’s shows his strong affinity with the method of archival order to set out a story similar to writing a novel.
KvG
A copy is in the Collection of Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
History of price:
Ecart-Books, Geneva, Switzerland June 2022 SFr 1.700,-
CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI, Point d’Ironie, 2010
43,2 x 30,6 cm
8 pp., offset on thin paper, text in English and French added: Nr 23 – Thomas Hirschhorn
edition 300.000
published by Agnes B., Paris, France
mint condition
€ 70,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
collection of 21 issues € 600,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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Content of set (in box):
Nr 05 – Annette Messager 1998
Nr 12 – Harmony Korine 1999
Hors série Point d’Ironie 2007 (“Société Anonyme”: Louwrien Wijers, o.a.)
Nr 23 – Thomas Hirschhorn 2001 (Dokumenta XI)
Nr 27 – Hanne Darboven 2002
Nr 31 – Yoko Ono 2003
Nr 34 – Michel Foucault 2004
Hors série interview Agnès B. 2004 (interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist)
Nr 36 – Tacita Dean 2005
Nr 37 – Ed Ruscha 2005
Nr 40 – Damien Hirst 2006
Nr 45 – Robert Crumb 2008
Nr 46 – Carlos Cruz-Diez 2008
Nr 47 – Koo Jeong-a 2009
Nr 48 – Walid Raad 2009
Nr 49 – Ryan McGinley 2009
Nr 50 – Christian Boltanski 2010
Nr 51 – Dayanita Singh 2010
Numéro spécial – Pierre Reimer 2011
Nr 54 – Pierre Henry 2013
Nr 56 – Robert Barry 2014
Added to the set:
Nr 05 – Annette Messager 1998 (3 copies)
Nr 12 – Harmony Korine 1999 (2 copies)
Nr 50 – Christian Boltanski 2010 (2 copies)
History of prices:
Unoriginal Sins, Gorebridge Midlothian, UK GBP 125.- March 2024 Nr 05-Annette Messager
The Land of Nod, Ostend, Belgium, November 2023 € 30.- i.e. Nr 50-Christian Boltanski
Unoriginal Sins, Gorebridge Midlothian, UK GBP 125.- September 2021 Nr 05-Annette Messager
PIERRE LEGUILLON, The Museum of Mistakes, 2020
26,7 x 20,2 cm
HC, dust cover, 242 pp.
first edition 800 of which 100 are signed, dated and numbered with separately a dedication in print, ink stamp
including entrance ticket; here number 72
dedicated to Aditya Mandayam
published by Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich, Switzerland
In August 2020 Edition Patrick Frey offered a special edition on behalf of the launch of artist’s book “The Museum of Mistakes”. When ordered any name could be given that would become ‘part of the publication’ it was announced. It was not told how the name would become part of an entrance ticket to The Museum of Mistakes on name for life. The ticket reads:
‘Ticket valid for Aditya Mandayam.
Ticket valid from August 20, through forever.
Ticket can be used for any visit.
Ticket can be used for an unlimited number of guests.
Please retain this ticket for future visits.
Food and drinks allowed in rooms.
Photographs welcome!’
The deceased Indian artist Aditya Mandayam (1983-2019) will never be able to make use of this entrance ticket. The same counts for special edition number 71 that is dedicated to Steven Parrino (1958-2005). These tickets valid for ever are dedicated to these too young died and out spoken artists. KvG
In 2021 a second print was published: This is the first book to present a wide selection of works from the Musée des Erreurs, or Museum of Mistakes. Founded in Brussels in 2013 by Pierre Leguillon, the Musée des Erreurs is a traveling exhibition that encamps in the halls of brick-and-mortar museums—like a traveling circus that comes to town—and then moves on. The rest of the time, the collection is stored in the artist’s studio apartment, mainly in his kitchen cupboards. Most of the items are serially manufactured and of negligible material value: postcards, record sleeves, posters large and small, pieces of fabric, ceramics, folk art, children’s drawings, and other miscellany.
IAN PAGE, YSL, 2019
20.8 x 14.5 cm
SC, offset, 20 pp.
several copies are signed, dated
published by the artist
€ 45,- plus € 13,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
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“YSL” is a booklet with short stories that jump from a 4th grade class to the third year of the American Civil War to a police officer of 27 years old. In all six stories Yves Saint Laurent perfume plays a bit of a surrealistic ingredient.
DAVID HORVITZ, Mood disorder, 2015
35 x 25 cm
SC, 72 pp., stapled
edition 2000
condition: very good
published by Chert, Berlin/Motto Books, Berlin-Lausanne/New Documents, Los Angeles-Vancouver
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David Horvitz’s self-portrait with his head in his hands, ocean waves crashing in the background, was initially uploaded by him to the Wikimedia Commons, and placed on various Wikipedia pages. Mood Disorder documents the appropriation of David Horvitz’s photograph across the internet. The image began to circulate more intensely, appearing on over a hundred websites as a “stock” photo to illustrate articles on a wide range of mental health and wellness issues.
This artist’s book is still available at various selling venues.
WJM KOK & ROSA JOHANNA, Composition for four fingers, 2017
29,2 x 21 cm
brochure, 12 pp, stapled
edition 15
numbered
published by Red Book
€ 50,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace EU registered mail (when ordered numbers may vary)
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Wjm Kok is used to number his works. Although this artist’s book is a cooperation with another artist, Rosa Johanna, he archived this brochure of five scores as ‘SN: 39180’.
GEOFFREY HENDRICKS, Five Found Photos, 1978
15 x 22,2 cm
artist’s book, 5 tipped in photos
edition 600
signed, numbered, here 74/600
published by Printed Editions, New York, USA
condition: splendid, although front cover comes with a hardly detectable vertical bend on the right side
€ 225,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered mail
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The artist’s book “Five Found Photos” includes a short text by Geoffrey Hendricks: ‘Last summer in Germany, rummaging through flee markets, I collected some old postcards and photographs. The collection was made casually just picking out what struck my fancy. One night I noticed certain photographs were of same people. Other cards seemed to go together because of similar structural elements. I began to group and regroup the material, pairing images visually, narratively, and numerically, seeing contrasts and similarities of form, subject, location, time, or emotion. Sometimes there were surprises. These five cards are one distillation from this process. They might imply a story, or a dream, perhaps a souvenir of a summer abroad. They are for reflection”
History of prices:
Ecart Books, Geneva, Switzerland, March 2023 SFr 250,-
AbeBooks.fr, May 2020 € 195,- (poor condition)
