Beuys La Rivoluzione siamo noi
Elaine Sturtevant
Published by Musée D’art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, unknown, card (colour & b/w ill.), 14.8 × 21 cm, French
Price: €14 (Out of stock)

Card produced by Musée D’art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva documenting Elaine Sturtevant’s work from the collection. Beuys La Rivoluzione siamo noi, 1988–1992, Tirage offset couleur, 97.8 × 53.5 cm, éd. 20/21.

The American artist Sturtevant is best known for her repetitions of the works of other artists, which she recreated manually from memory after having seen a piece that intrigued her. These can immediately be identified with the original, but they are not copies. The artists with whose work she engaged include her contemporaries in American Pop—Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselmann – as well as Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys, Frank Stella, Félix González-Torres, Keith Haring and Anselm Kiefer, among others. Her aim was not to achieve an exact replica, but rather to address notions of authorship, authenticity and originality that would later come to the fore in our own digital age, characterised by the endless circulation and recombination of images.

#ephemera #mamco #sturtevant
Sigmar Polke
Published by Seriaal bv, Amsterdam, 1976, card (colour & b/w ill.), 15 × 10.5 cm, Dutch
Price: €17

Announcement card produced on the occasion of an exhibition held at Seriaal bv, Amsterdam, 8 May–5 June, 1976.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1976 #ephemera #painting #sigmarpolke
Palermo
Published by Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, 1990, 64 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 18.5 × 24 cm, English / German
Price: €15

German artist Blinky Palermo has been associated with distinct 20th-century art practices, from Abstraction to Minimalism and Conceptual art. Throughout his brief and influential career—leading all the way up to his untimely death at the age of 33, Palermo executed paintings, objects, installations, and works on paper that mined various contextual and semantic issues at stake in the construction, exhibition and reception of works of art.

#1990 #blinkypalermo #painting
Häuser und Hallen
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Published by Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt 1992, 72 pages (b/w ill.), 18.5 × 24 cm, English / German
Price: €25

“The husband and wife team of Bernd and Hilla Becher began photographing together in 1959. For close to fifty years, they documented architectural forms they collectively referred to as “anonymous sculpture.” Their extensive series of water towers, blast furnaces, coal mine tipples, framework houses of mine workers, and other vernacular industrial architecture—often technologies on the verge of obsolescence—comprise an in-depth study of the intricate relationship between form and function.”—Fraenkel Gallery.

#1992 #berndamphillabecher #photography
Elfriede Jelinek: An und für sich Selbst
R.H. Quaytman
Published by Secession, Vienna, 2017, 25 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 18 × 29 cm, English / German
Price: €10

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition R.H. Quaytman: An Evening, Chapter 32 at Secession, Vienna, 17 November, 2017–28 January, 2018. This text is published as an advance copy from the artist’s book R.H. Quaytman. An Evening, Chapter 32.

#2017 #rhquaytman #secession
Daniel Spoerri
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2021, 160 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 30 cm, English / German
Price: €20

Produced on the occasion of the comprehensive retrospective, Daniel Spoerri at Kunstforum Wien, 24 March – 27 June, 2021.

Daniel Spoerri is a Swiss artist and writer, best known for his “snare-pictures”, a type of assemblage or object art, in which he captures a group of objects, such as the remains of meals eaten by individuals, including the plates, silverware and glasses, all of which are fixed to the table or board, which is then displayed on a wall. He also is widely acclaimed for his book, Topographie Anécdotée du Hasard (An Anecdoted Topography of Chance), a literary analog to his snare-pictures, in which he mapped all the objects located on his table at a particular moment, describing each with his personal recollections evoked by the object

#2021 #danielspoerri #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig