YAYOI KUSAMA, Pumpkin, 2019
61 x 43 cm
print on bath mat (small)
polyester fabric
published by Redbubble, Docklands, Victoria, Australia
Collection K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
In 2019 for a very short period a bath mat (both small and large) with printed pumpkin was offered for sale. The design was more than remarkable since only circa 5% of the surface was used for the image of a pumpkin; not really a commercial product, one would say. In less than two months it was taken from the website of Redbubble.
Redbubble is a global online marketplace for print-on-demand products based on user-submitted artwork. The company was founded in 2006 in Melbourne, Australia, and also maintains offices in San Francisco and Berlin in 2017.
KLAUS VOM BRUCH ?, no title, ca 1981-1985
VHS cassette box, photo copy, 4 Fuji Color photo prints (each 8.8 x 12.6 cm)
splendid condition
unknown publisher
condition: splendid, although one photo has two weak corner folds
For this item an artist’s name is not at hand. It is attributed to Klaus vom Bruch but it cannot be approved. At some point in the eighties I got hold on this VHS cassette including four vintage photo prints. I have a vague remembrance that I got it from Vereniging van Videokunstenaars founded in Amsterdam in 1982. Somewhere I have the idea that this cassette was a kind of promotion material of a video film to be launched soon. Hence a lacking VHS video tape. KvG
HENK PEETERS, Nul postzegel, 2011
10,1 x 14,7 cm
sheet of three stamps, 3 postcards, envelope
published by Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands
inv.HP 000-pr
MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Luchtvaart Vijfje, 2019
5,4 x 8,6 cm
commemorative silver coin, coin card
edition 15.000
published by Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt, Houten, Netherlands
condition: BU (Brilliant Uncirculated)
JAMES LEE BYARS, The Palace of Good Luck, 1989
11,4 x 16 x 0,3 cm
3 parts: gold printed envelope, card, red plastic mini ball
published by Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy extremely rare
€ 950,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JLBy 70-pr
On behalf of the inauguration of solo exhibition ‘The Palace of Good Luck’ of James Lee Byars a gold printed envelope including a white card with a very small red ball was sent to a selected group of people. The empty card and mini marble should be considered a part of this edition, also the gold envelope is an important part of the artist’s vocabulary; hence this multiple consists of three parts.
Additional information
Castello di Rivoli has archived its own published Byars’ golden printed invitation card, shown on its website recto and verso. Apparently the museum is not aware of the content of the envelope that is an important part of the invite. On the first photo in the right lower corner one may see an unevenness most likely caused by the tiny red ball inside.
Ref. Castello di Rivoli Collection Invite James Lee Byars.
CARSTEN HÖLLER, Zukunft ist wichtiger als Freizeit., 1989
each 5,4 x 4,9 x 0,6 cm
28 match books, with vintage cardboard box (5,5 x 20,5 x 11,5 cm)
edition 5000
published by the artist
match books in mint condition, discoloured box with some small tears
published by the artist unique with authentic cardboard box
€ 800,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
inv.CHoe 1179-pr
This cardboard box was part of a group exhibition at Galerie van Gelder in 1990. Following the instructions of Carsten Höller these match books were offered in a metal bowl given by him for presenting them to the public. Visitors were allowed to take a match book while leaving the gallery.
Carsten Höller told me that he was flabbergasted by Helmut Kohl’s speech at the Deutschen Ingenieurtag on 26th of May 1987 given in Munich, Germany: “…Wer über die Zukunft unserer Gesellschaft mitentscheiden will, tut gut daran, dies nicht nur in der unbeständigen Aufgeregtheit des Zeitgeistes zu tun, sondern mit Nachdenklichkeit und Besonnenheit.” and “…Einer Gesellschaft, in der für viele die Freizeit immer mehr zum wichtigsten Wert wird, ist schwer verständlich zu machen, dass Zukunft wichtiger ist als Freizeit und dass Zukunft ohne Anstrengungen nicht gesichert werden kann.”
The idea that a future with efforts or even hard labour, i.e. ‘Anstrengungen’, is more important than leasure time made the artist decide to appropriate the slogan of German politician Helmut Kohl.
The originally presented aluminum bowl had a diameter of 20 cm. KvG
WALTER DAHN, label with signature, 1989
19,8 x 9,6 cm
signed and numbered label issued for being sewn under woolen carpet “Crowns”
edition 6
produced by Equator Production, Brussels, Belgium
Private collection, Amsterdam
Margin Scheme
inv.WDah 718-pr
This label with signature (1989) was signed and numbered for being sewn under woolen carpet “Crowns” (200 x 300 cm) that was issued in an edition of 6. Each carpet was made on a command-selling base. It is unknown whether all copies have been produced.
In a group exhibition called They See The Light at Galerie van Gelder (11 – 27 August 1991), another hand knotted carpet ‘Two Crowns’ (200 x 200 cm) of Walter Dahn was shown, together with carpets by Milan Kunc, Rosemarie Trockel, Peter Nagy, Rob Scholte, Joseph Kosuth, Donald Baechler, Mark Dagley, Guillaume Bijl and Jiri Georg Dokoupil.
RICHARD PRINCE, Skull Bunny shopping bag, 1991
50 x 28 x 8 cm
offset on stiff paper bag signed, dated
edition 29
published during Art Basel 1991 by Printed Matter, New York, USA and Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada in this condition extremely rare
€ 5.500,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
mint condition
History of prices:
eBay-lakersla8, Los Angeles, USA, October 2022 US$ 2,000.- (unsigned)
eBay-banksysells, New York, USA, December 2021 US$ 1,500.- (unsigned)
Artcurial SVV, Paris, France 16 May 2018 € 1.950,- (unsigned)
HRAFNHILDUR ARNARDÓTTIR, Shoplifter, 2019
ca 65 x 35 x 3 cm
print on fabric, tag with name, title and year
published by Kiasma / Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
mint
€ 85,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.HArn 680
JONATHAN MONK, Measurements, 2021
14,8 x 10,5 cm
offset, felt pen ink, postcard with hand written text
signed, numbered
edition 20
published by NAK / Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
inv.JMon 1110_1113
In 1969 Mel Bochner became renown for his “Measurement rooms” for which architectural features of a room were measured and marked out directly onto the walls. Jonathan Monk is known for reproducing art works taken from art history, i.e. (re)making the same work, but in a different way. For “Measurements” (2021) Monk has marked in green printed lines the height and width of a postcard depicting the view of a “Measurement Room”. On the backside of the card he wrote with the help of a ruler, as a straight line support: ‘Written with a ruler for …’ giving this work a hand made touch. KvG
