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LAWRENCE WEINER, AMS Multiple – Art Meets Science, 1992 [unique drawing]

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LAWRENCE WEINER, AMS Multiple, 1992
Art Meets Science
unique drawing, twice fold, ink, felt pen,
snippets of photo stat, pencil, colour pencil, collage
45,5 x 60,8 cm
signed “L.W. NY-96”, dated
splendid condition
p.o.r.
inv.LWein 403

Lawrence Weiner’s primary medium is language, often in combination with red, yellow, blue coloured signs, or in mere black and white. He is a New York and Amsterdam-based sculptor who prefers to make art that is accessible, open-ended, mutable and transferable. In the ‘Art Meets Science Multiple’ the artist skipped linguistic language completely, making this work an uncommon outspoken pictorial piece within his oeuvre.

The depicted drawing here is a draft for a new envelope as soon as the first run of 1992 is out of stock. Until today this never happened. The image on the brown envelope suggests that the multiple ought to be installed as depicted. In fact at a later stage Lawrence Weiner preferred to have the piece installed as one likes, although he did not want to have that explicitly mentioned as such.

VINH PHÚÓNG, Branche, 1991 [silver wall object]

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VINH PHÚÓNG, Branche, 1991
2 x 13,7 x 2 cm
925/1000 grams silver
edition 5 + 2 AP
engraved signature, numbered, dated
published by the artist
€ 450,- plus 18,- Track & Trace registered mail


In April 1976 the first boats of refugees fleeing Vietnam sailed to various countries, heralding a series of arrivals over the next few years. Vietnamese-Dutch sculptor and painter Vinh Phúóng (born in 1959 as Nguyen Phuc Vinh Phúóng) born in Djiring, provincie Lam Dong, Vietnam was one of them. In the early nineties he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie van Gelder in Amsterdam. His motifs always have an undertone of pain and apparently urge to seek protection, together with a dark and enigmatic image making. In this context a broken tiny branche of silver suggests an expression of pain and loss, and not so much a light hearted mimicry of nature, as one may think at first sight.

ANDY WARHOL, Interview, April 1992 [magazine]

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ANDY WARHOL, Interview, April 1992
34,3 x 26,9 cm
never opened, i.e. sealed as issued although with tears at lower half of cover and spine caused by postal handling, tiny paper snippet of spine inside seal
published by Brant Publications, Inc, New York, USA
€ 85,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered EU mail, including art handling, packing

 

Interview magazine of April 1992 with actress Robin Wright on the cover was published by Brant Publications, Inc that took over the helm shortly after Warhol’s death in 1987. It was managed for 18 years by Ingrid Sischy, until she and Peter Brant’s ex-wife Sandra became lovers and left the magazine, selling Ms. Brant’s half-ownership stake in the parent company Brant Publications.

 

History of prices:
Todocoleccion, Campanillas, Málaga, Spain € 1.000,- October 2020
Interview, New York, USA, US$ 2.95 April 1992 (year of issue)

SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Fjörvit, 1996 [signed bag]

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SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Fjörvit, 1996
ca 41 x 29 x 4 cm
plastic bag, 7 publications, 11 photo copies (stapled)
signed
published by Nýlistasafnið, Reykjavik, Iceland
inv.SG 949-pr

 

Each newspaper and magazine in this bag contains an article about group exhibition called Fjörvit (trans. Clear white) organised/curated by Sigurdur Gudmundsson at Nýlistasafnið / The Living Art Museum. Participating artists: Dan Wolgers, Carsten Höller, Christene Hohenbüchler and Irene Hohenbüchler. Among the publications also a stapled stack of 11 black and white photo copies is depicting an exhibition about plants and butterflies. For some reason or other the name of that artist is not mentioned.

The backside of the translucent museum bag shows an introductory text in Icelandic by Sigurdur Gudmundsson.

HETTY HUISMAN, Letters to friends, 1977 [invite Other Books and So]

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HETTY HUISMAN, Letters to friends, 1977
29,7 x 21 cm
stencil print
published by Other Books and So, Amsterdam
condition: good, although obviously aged wood-containing paper
extremely rare
€ 280,- plus Track & Trace EU registered mail
inv.HHui 945-pr

 

Extra information

The exhibition showed a collection of handmade unique artists’ books from a series of 15, containing diary-like texts, drawings and collages and published in Korsow, Curaçao, Cabaron Press, 1976. Each booklet was addressed to a friend in The Netherlands while Huisman was temporarily living in Curacao. Staple bound graph books, each 19 x 25,5 cm, 24 pp. with handwritten text, ink and graphite drawings, rubber stamps and collaged photos. All signed, dated and stamped by the artist.

Hetty Huisman (1941-2017) was a Dutch artist working in a variety of fields. She made ceramic based works, albeit with a conceptual and destructive approach, and was a prolific publisher of artists’ books through her imprint Void Editions. Huisman published her own artists’ books and works by others such as Ulises Carrion (Second Thoughts), Henryk Gajewski, John Liggins. In the 1970s she was one of the founders of the In-Out Center artists’ space in Amsterdam. She curated exhibitions in her studio as well as at her temporary gallery in Curaçao where she also launched Cabaron Press.

MICHAEL CARDENA, invitation card Mazzo, Amsterdam, 1981 [invitation card]

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MICHAEL CARDENA, invitation card Mazzo, Amsterdam, 1981
17,4 x 10,8 cm
date postal stamp: ’24-6-81′ (verso)
added: SMA newsletter in Dutch, 1984 + a newspaper clipping
good condition
€ 95,- plus € 10,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
inv.MCar 944-pr

This card reads: “A tough evening Cardena” dedicated to Paulina Lagrande and other art critics from Purmerend and surroundings. Live-performance Michael Cardena
This item comes with a SMA newsletter and a newspaper clipping De Volkskrant d.d.22 mei 1981