PAUL BERGTOLD, Machine Art, 1968
28,2 x 22 cm,
folio of thin paper, 12 sheets of paper
edition 2000 + 100 signed signed
nota bene: each sheet is hand signed
condition: mint vintage, here unfolded as issued for special edition
published by S.M.S., New York, USA
Private collection, Amsterdam
€ 500,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail, Margin Scheme
For a Deluxe edition 100 copies plus several PP (Publishers Proof) were signed. Most of the 73 artists solely signed their contributions for the Deluxe portfolios, while a few others signed, and also numbered and/or dated their contribution. Reportedly, there were also a very small handful of artists who did not sign at all due to ideological reasons or that period their recent death like Marcel Duchamp’s. Although the latter signed a few grippers as approval before the production of one of the S.M.S. folios started at the end of 1968.
In the late 1960s two artists working with Xerox copiers were Paul Bergtold and Toby Mussman. The works done on regular 8 x 22 inch sheets of paper, not only depict mundane subject matters, but also emphasize the cheap quality of the process, as there is a lack of definition and detailing.
This Paul Bergtold contribution comes from the #4 portfolio, and consists of a pink tissue folio containing 12 compositions entitled “Machine Art,” that were created using a typewriter on top of the Xerox reproductions. Usually folded as issued, here unfolded as it comes from a special edition of 100.
LUCY LIPPARD editor, 557.087, Seattle, 1969 / 955.000, Vancouver, 1970
138 cards, envelope, yellow end paper
vintage edition
published by Contemporary Art Council of the Seattle Art Museum / The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
condition: very good, although some tears at the corners of the envelope
rare sold
‘When the show was finally selected, I looked over the cards and the body of work, and was surprised to find that it divided into quite distinct parts: 1) the work dealing with perception of exterior natural phenomena (Aycock, Dunlap, Holt) 2) the work re-framing or re-locating relatively factual material into personal patterns (Darboven, Kozlov, Denes, Anderson) 3) the work dealing with biography, usually autobiography (Altenrath, Bartlett, Lasch, Johnson, Ukeles, Antin, N.E.Thing Co., Mayer) and 4) the work dealing with transformation, primarily of the self (Wilson, Nahum, Myers, Mobus, Nolden, Apple, Stein, Piper, Tacha, Kitchel, Kuffler), with some overlaps in the latter two groupings. Lucy Lippard
History of price:
Printed Matter, New York, USA US$ 2,000.- 26 October 2020
8Sprong, Utrecht, Netherlands € 1.750,- 29 March 2020
Schema Informazione 2, 1974
30 x 21,5 cm
number 2, 68 pp.
published by Galleria Schema, Firenze, Italy
condition: very good, although cover carefully used
very rare
€ 285,- plus € 20,- Track & Trace registered mail
Schema Informazione is a catalogue published in magazine format on behalf of a group exhibition “Retuned to Sender” at Galleria Schema in Firenze, Italy. The exhibition was announced as ” Texts, musics, diagrams, scores, books, slides, notes, photographs, revues, video tapes, multiples, projects, statements, films, ideas………”.
List of participating artists:
Vito Acconci
Vincenzo Agnetti
Marcel Allocco
Adriano Altamira
Eleanor Antin
Eric Andersen
Giovanni Anselmo
Arakawa
Art & Language
Gabor Attalai
John Baldessari
Dana Atcheley
Imre Bak
Manuel Barbadillo
Robert Barry
Roberto Barni
Carlo Battisti
Lanfranco Baldi
Bernhard & Hilla Becher
Massimo Becattini
Mirella Bentivoglio
Maurizio Benveduti
Carlo Bertocci
Gerard Bjerlej
Joseph Beuys
Julien Blaine
Alighiero Boetti
Mel Bochner
Borillo/Mariotti
Werner F. Bonin
Christian Boltanski
Giovanni Bruscino
Enrico Bugli
Chris Burden
Daniel Buren
Bulkowski
Marcel Broodthaers
Pier Paolo Calzolari
Cioni Carpi
Luciano Caruso
Sylvano Bussotti
Giuseppe Chiari
Tullio Catalano
Cayc
Claudio Cintoli
Christo
James Coleman
Giusi Coppini
Roberto Cerbai
Marco Cordioli
Maria Teresa Corvino
Caum
Claudio Costa
Attila Csernik
Guido Corazziari
Feruccio De Filippi
Robin Crozier
Radomir Damnjanovic
Anne Darboven [sic]
Henry Dale
Giuliano Della Casa
Andrea Daninos
Gino de Dominicis
Branco Dimitrijevic
Nusa & Sreco Dragan
Herman de Vries
Paolo de Manincor
Antonio Dias
Wilfried Doerstel
Herbert Distel
Goran Djordjevic
Michele de Lucchi
Audrey Flack
Luciano Fabro
File
G. Fonio & P.L. Paolillo
Terry Fox
Joel Fremiot
Stano Filko
Hervé Fischer
Peter Finch
Hreinn Fridfinnsson
Andrea Granchi
Joseph Figueras
John Furnival
Bruno Gambone
Phil Glass
Paul Armand Gette
Zvi Goldstein
Jochen Gerz
Gilbert & George
Sigurdur Gudmundsson
Kristjan Gudmundsson
Groupe Ecart
Dan Graham
Milan Grygar
Lee Guen-Young
Groupe 70: Martin Miguel / Max Charuolen / Serge Maccaferri
Klaus Groh
John Hillard
Allan V. Harrison
Joseph Iglesias del Marquet
Hans Haacke
Alessandro Jasci
Christian Jaccard
Françoise Jannicot
Ray Johnson
Sture Johanesson
Joan Jonas
Allan Kaprow
Donald Karshan
Zdristan Jurkiewicz
Sasa Katamanova & J.H. Kocman
Hans W. Kalkmann
Per Kirkeby
Lazlo Kerekes
Annalies Klophaus
Joseph Kosuth
Richard Kostelanetz’s
Christof Kohlhöfer
Jannis Kounellis
Ketty LaRocca
Dick Landry
Auro Lecci
Ugo La Pietra
Jean le Gac
Andrea Lemmi
Sol LeWitt
Richard Long
Les Levine
Urs Lüthi
Sergio Lombardo
Inge Mahn
Robert Mangold
Maier AichenElio Marchegiani
Jean Claude Marquette
Stelio Maria Martini
Plinio Martelli
Paolo Masi
Slavko Matkovic
Eliseo Mattiacci
Mario Merz
Fabio Mauri
Albert Mayr
Edwind Morgan
Dora Maurer
Alberto Moretti
N.O. Mustill
Brenda Miller
Ito Motoyuki
Monique Nahas & Hervé Huitric
Massimo Nannucci
Maurizio Nannucci
Roman Opalka
Tomas Nillg [sic]
Dennis Oppenheim
Luigi Ontani
Claudio Parmiggiani
Charlemagne Palestine
Luca Patella
Giulio Paolini
Mario Poggiali
Andrzej Piergalski
Giuseppe Penone
Gianni Pettena
Miro Polacci
Alberto Pirelli
Josep Ponsati
Vettor Pisani
Edith Revai
Karina Raeck
Renato Ranaldi
Arnulf Rainer
Alan Riddel
Sue & Clive Robertson
Dorothe Rockburne
Gianni Ruffi
Fried Rosenstock
Edward Ruscha
Franca Sacchi
Sarkis
Lucas Samaras
Pedrac Sidjanin
Fulvio Salvadori
Salvo
Richard Serra
Fritz Schwegler
Frank Smith
Kishio Suga
Landfried Schöpfer
Alan Sondheim
Enzo Stella
Klaus Staeck
Petr Stembera
Superstudio
Jan Steklik
Nikola Stojanovic
Balint Szombathy
Shohachiro Takahashi
Paul Thek
Team A3
Tobas
Mikoljub Todorovic
Richard Tuttle
Jerzy Trelinski
Vittorio Tolu
Biljana Tomic
Rasa Todosijevic
Fernando Tonello
Endre Tót
U.F.O.
Jacqueline Urban Nicaud
Timm Ulrichs
Janos Urban
Franco Vaccari
Willy Vazan
Jiri Valoch
Ben Vautier
Luca Venturi
Jürgen Vogdt
Bernard Venet
Edgardo Antonio Vigo
Wolf Vostell
Dorothee Von Windheim
Lawrence Weiner
May Wilson
Paul Wordow
William Wegman
Antonio Ximenez
Orest Zagoricnik
Michele Zaza
Jacob Zekveld
Nicholas Zurbrugg
Gilberto Zorio
CADY NOLAND, No Land, 2018
28,7 x 20,8 cm
ink hand stamped book couver + envelope
Lümbeck binding, SC, 124 pp.
2nd and extended edition
mint condition
published by Anonymous, London, UK
Private collection, New York, USA
sold
The book “No land” was first published in 2011. This is a second and extended edition, composed with a ‘Clip-on method’. It has been archived by The Archive is Limited, in spite of its unauthorised publication. The book consists of a peculiar compilation of ‘found’ reproductions of all sorts. The notion ‘found’ ought to be understood as trying to circumvent the artist’s strict control over the use and dissemination of her images, texts and works.
A hand stamped couver and tight envelope, and its cheap printing give it the looks of an artist’s book. In fact, it is a full colour chronological compendium of art reproductions taken from magazines, press clippings and exhibition catalogues. The title page of this book reads “Art reproductions of Cady Noland’s work 1989 – 2006”, as if it concerns an institutional catalogue. Instead art reproductions themselves have been reproduced.
There is no colophon or name of publisher that authorises this publication. On Internet there is a link leading to The Piracy Project, being part of And Publishing.org in the UK.
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, More Encores, 1989
vinyl, LP, merely inner sleeve
Edition No Man’s Land
condition: splendid, never played vinyl
published by Review Records, Wurzburg, Western-Germany
€ 18,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
JIRI VALOCH, Symmetrical concept, 1972
20,8 x 15 cm
portfolio with 3 cards
edition 100, here 26/ 100 signed, numbered
published by the artist
portfolio on frontside with several folds and at top part light scuffing, cards yellowed due to aging extremely rare
€ 550,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.JVal 848
JIRI VALOCH, Eye Piece XIII, 1978-1979
29,3 x 21 cm
letterpress print
edition 40
signed, numbered
€ 480,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.JVal 846
This signed and numbered stiff paper print is not numbered, but probably it was part of the 10th Anniversary Hundertmark Edition box issued in 1980.
Ref. Eric Andersen
Jiří Valoch’s works are not of the narrative kind. Basically he presents the reader a few words or a short text and the reader finishes the work as if a verbal puzzle has to be resolved. In all cases it creates relational images in the mind, playing with connotations of the used notions. It is a question of filling in the open space within a group of given data. With this he draws attention to what happens when one is ‘reading’ his given letters or words. In “Eye Piece XIII” the reader makes a sculpture above the print with movements of the eye. KvG
History of price:
The 10th Anniversary Hundertmark Edition box was priced € 16.000,- at Hundertmark in June 2019.
JIRI VALOCH, Study of identification, 1972
14,9 x 15 cm
portfolio with 4 cards
edition 100, here 26/100
signed and numbered on portfolio, each card also verso signed in pencil with surname
published by the artist
good condition, although slightly discoloured due to age and dog’s ear at lower right of portfolio
extremely rare
sold
This edition has been signed and dated on the portfolio. The backside of each separate card has been signed in pencil with ‘Valoch’. Two cards have been signed horizontally parallel to reading the words and two cards have been signed vertically, apparently to indicate that the words ‘here’ and ‘there’ should not be read horizontally on all of the four cards.
JIRI VALOCH, Do it yourself I – signs + Do it yourself II – dialogues, 1972
each 20,8 x 15 x 0,3 cm 2 portfolios with each 9 sheets
edition 100, here 26/100
signed, numbered
published by the artist
good condition, although slightly discoloured due to aging very rare
€ 885,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JVal 847-pr
Jirí Valoch is a visual and conceptual poet and works with graphic and textual concepts. His minimal events and interventions in natural settings find their way often through conceptual drawings, short and ‘easy-to-make’ books and installations with texts.
Jirí Valoch had solo exhibitions since 1966 in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Poland, Italy, The Netherlands and Austria. He participated in group shows in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Great Britain, Mexico, Spain, Italy, USA, Argentina, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Austria, France, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Austria, Israel and Canada. From 1968 – 1972 he was a member of Klub Konkretistu (Concretists’ Club) and since 1997 he has been a member of the Brno section of the Klub Konkretistu 2; since 1991 he has been a member of the TT Klub of Creative Artists and Theoreticians. He lives and works in Brno.
