SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, The Universe is a Poem, 2021
18 x 13,2 cm
offset, HC, 46 pp.
here signed
published by Ars Longa, Braedslan, Djúpavogur, Iceland
p.o.r.
This is a catalogue accompanying a solo exhibition at Ars Longa with artist’s statements on the first 7 pages on thinner paper in the front: The universe is a poem.
The only way to understand my art is to love it.
My art is my way to live my life.
My art begins where my thinking leaves off.
“Ars Longa” is a contemporary art museum located in Djúpivogur. Its venue is an old abandoned fish factory in Borgarfjörður Eystri. In 2021 it has received a gift of twenty-seven art works by Sigurður Guðmundsson. All the works can be found in his solo exhibition “Alheimurinn er ljóð / The Universe is a Poem”, which opened in Bræðslan in Djúpivogur in July. Sigurður Guðmundsson, who together with Þór Vigfússon is the founder of the new museum, says he hopes that within a few years this museum property will become a venue with new inputs of works of art by contemporary artists, both foreign and Icelandic artists.
BEN VAUTIER, Stencils de Ben 1963-1969, 1969
31 x 21,5 cm
stencils on paper, 58 loose sheets in folder with printed title
edition of 180
artist’s publication
not available
The text in French reads: ‘This collection contains old stencils dating from 1963 to 1969. I removed these stencils because lately people often asked me for old issues of TOUT from 1 to 6 which are sold out.
This collection is far from complete; most of the stencils of magazine ‘BEN DIEU’, those of the chapter ‘Poetry’ and ‘Moi Ben je Signe’, have not been preserved’
ELVIRE BONDUELLE, You are a Tombola winner!
print of mail 26 April, 2012
29,7 x 21 cm
print
inv.EB 234-pr
This is a print of a mail about a lot won at a tombola at One Star Press, Paris, France. On the evening of 25th of April Elvire Bonduelle created 26 drawings in a row by means of a ruler, template and colour pencils. The ones who bought lottery tickets could win one of these during her performance. I was one of the winners! KvG
ANDY WARHOL, Mao, 1974
135 x 44,5 cm
screen print, wallpaper with text “Andy Warhol – TRIM”
published by Musée Galliera, Paris, France
condition: fine, although partly hue-like discoloured
€ 850,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
Wallpaper “Mao” can be found with different texts on the left or right border of the print. Apart from this black and white print colour versions were produced.
Andy Warhol had solo exhibition in Musée Galliera in Paris from 23 February through 18 March, 1974.
History of price:
Sworders Fine Arts Auctioneers, Stanstead, UK 22 August 2023 GBP 580 (hammer price)
DuMouchelles, Detoit MI, USA 16 July 2021 US$ 800.- (hammer price)
RAPHAËL LANGMAIR, Again (Monochrome), 2022
16,5 x 25 x 3 cm
2 burnt slices of bread, cardboard box, ink stamped text
signed, numbered, dated
edition 5
published by the artist
€ 150,-
inv.RLan 1146
In several works Raphaël Langmair deals with duplications. He finds an object and makes a replica, although differently from its original. In the past he used ink of an octopus for making one in print of that same octopus. In another work he takes a fruit market crate and rebuilds it into a triangle shaped one.
Recently one morning he burnt his toast. He took another slice of bread in order to make a toast again. While waiting he decided to burn deliberately the next one as well that brought him two burnt toasts that he turned into a piece, hence the title of this edition: “Again”. KvG
BEN VAUTIER, Je doute, donc je suis, n.d. [ca 2017]
29,7 x 23 x 3 cm
notebook, spiral binding
with pencil drawing: ‘Don’t fill it up’
signed
published by Quo Vadis, France
inv.BVau 000-pr
FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES, Untitled, 1991
25,4 x 21,5 cm
SC, 48 pp. + 4 pp.
artist’s book, text by Steven Evens
published by Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano, Italy
mint condition
not available anymore
The pages of this book are printed with a light blue rectangle against a blue paper background. The work is based on one of the artist’s stack works, recreated on pages. Apart from the two middle pages of the book having an essay by Steven Evans on white paper this work is a crystal clear conceptual allusion of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s stack sculptures of printed matter.
RICHARD LONG, A Straight Hundred Mile Walk in Australia, 1977
21 x 29,9 cm
SC, 8 pp., stapled
published by John Kaldor Project 6, Australia
splendid condition, although tiny brown spot on title page rare
inv.RLo 000-pr
ADITYIA MANDAYAM, The Ooze, 2018
12 x 17 cm
book, offset, SC, 144 pp.
interview and texts by Aditya Mandayam (ca 30%)
other texts by Chris Fitzpatrick, Andrea Liu, Michal Novotny and Kees van Gelder
here signed in red ink
edition 500
published by Roma Publications, Amsterdam, Netherlands / Kunstverein München, Germany
Usually so-called artist’s books with texts by others than the artist involved are expelled from The Archive is Limited. This book invites to make an exception. “The Ooze” contains 49 pages of 144 that have been written by Aditya Mandayam. The front and back of the cover show reproduced drawings by the artist. “The Ooze” gives an insight in the thinking of Brud through theories and statements.
ANITA DI BIANCO, The Error is Regretted, 2021
32,2 x 24,3 cm
print on newspaper
HC, 96 pp., text by Francesco Gagliardi, 8 pp.
here signed, dated
published by The Green Box Kunst Editionen, Berlin, Germany
Collection K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
