Annette Messager, Les Tortures Volontaires, 1972-2013. Favorite Still up-to-date and a real find: Messager’s photo series on the image of the body from 1972. “Beauty knows no pain” is a phrase that, upon closer scrutiny, is shocking and disturbing. The French artist Annette Messager (*1943 in Berck) began pursuing this idea in the seventies when she assembled photographs from magazines for her groundbreaking series Les Tortures Volontaires (Voluntary Tortures). Read more
Richard Prince, Greeting Card, 2011.Favorite Thought long sold out, Hatje Cantz is now offering some left over copies of this edition. This Collector’s Edition is associated with the text-images from Richard Prince’s Jokes. Looking like classic Hallmark cards, three greeting cards each feature a joke handwritten by the artist: Fireman pulling drunk out of burning bed: “You darn fool, that’ll teach you to smoke in bed.” Drunk: “I wasn’t smoking in bed. It was on fire when I laid down.” A husband came home and found his wife in bed with his best friend. “ Hey, what do you think you’re doing?” said the husband. “See?” she said to the man beside her. “I told you he was stupid.” My father was never home, he was always away drinking booze. He saw a sigh saying DRINK CANADA DRY. So he went up there. Read more
Julião Sarmento, Scar and Window, 2012.Favorite Medium: Archival giclée print with pigmented ink on rag paper (Hahnemühle Museum Etching), with book Sheet size: 57.8 x 47 cm, Image size: 51.8 x 41 cm Limited edition of 12 + 2 a. p., Signed and numbered Price: € 1,500
Publication date: December 2012. This Julião Sarmento edition is available at Hatje Cantz Verlag here
Bae Bien-U, sea 1a, 051h, 1999/2012.Favorite Medium: Gelatin silver print on fiberbased paper, with recessed oak frame, with book Sheet size: 28 x 53 cm, Image size: 26 x 51 cm Limited edition of each 25 + 3 a.p., Signed and numbered Price: € 2,800 (Pre-order price: € 2,300) Release date: December 2012 Read more
Nedko Solakov, Knight’s Graffiti, 2012. Nedko Solakov’s Collector’s Edition “Knight’s graffiti” is closely associated with his video for dOCUMENTA (13) Knights and Other Dreams. It focuses on the legendary Battle of Varna. In 1444 The Turks crushed the Crusader army and established their supremacy over Istanbul. But Solakov would not be Solakov if he could not give this grim situation a humurous twist. Read more
Steve Schapiro, Dancers at the Apollo Theatre, New York 1961, 2012 UPON Paper Collector’s Edition #2 Medium: Fine Art Premium Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 g, with UPON PAPER #02, Paper size: 50 x 60 cm Edition size: 100 + 10 a.p. Signed and numbered Read more
UPDATE from the publisher July 13, 2012: “I regret to inform you that the Collector’s Edition with Katharina Fritsch won’t be realized.”
And here’s another brilliant Collector’s Edition released by Hatje Cantz. This Collector’s Edition by Katharina Fritsch consists of coloured, postcard-sized, screenprints taken of photographs of her sculpture group in context with the MoMA sculpture garden. The editions sizes are small, so if interested, I would advise you to hurry.
Katharina Fritsch, Figure in the Garden, 2012. All 8 Images, in a Map, with book Medium: Screenprint on Forexpaper Paper size: 14,8 x 10,5 cm Edition size: 6 + 4 a.p. Signed and numbered Price: Cancelled Read more
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Still up-to-date and a real find: Messager’s photo series on the image of the body from 1972. “Beauty knows no pain” is a phrase that, upon closer scrutiny, is shocking and disturbing. The French artist Annette Messager (*1943 in Berck) began pursuing this idea in the seventies when she assembled photographs from magazines for her groundbreaking series Les Tortures Volontaires (Voluntary Tortures). Read more
