Editions vs. objets
From November 3, 2009, until January 22, 2010
Pierre Bismuth, François Curlet, Fabrice Gygi, Karl Holmqvist, Angela Marzullo, Mai-Thu Perret, Benjamin Valenza, Jeffrey Vallance et Erik van Lieshout
Pierre Bismuth
Something Less, Something More DIY
Seven pre-cut discs in a cardboard plate, 50 x 37 cm, metal rod, instructions for use, the whole set in a plastic holder, 170 numbered, dated and signed copies, edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2009.
François Curlet
PUB-UP
Mini-portfolio of five facsimiles, offset, spike file, 20 numbered, dated and signed copies, edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2007.
Fabrice Gygi
PITON UNIVERSEL (Geneva 2000)
Font aluminium piton, in silk-screened cardboard box, 15 x 4 x 3 cm, 30 numbered copies, edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2001.
Karl Holmqvist
CECI N’EST QU’UNE ILLUSION
Plastic bag with b/w silk screen, 34,5 x 46,5 cm, illimited copies, edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2002
Angela Marzullo
Les Pisseuses
Three figurines, plaster, urine, 14 x 6.5 x 5 cm, in a cardboard box printed on its six sides with beetroot juice, using the stencil of a lace curtain, flap lid on top of the box, oval plexiglas « window », pink embossing on back of the lid, 10 numbered, dated and signed copies, edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2009.
Mai-Thu Perret
5 Sculptures of Pure Self-Expression
Series of five objects (The Dead, the Spider, the Gallows and the Crystals), ceramics, red enamel,, Ø approx. 20 cm., 100 copies, edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2004.
Benjamin Valenza
Sculpture (2006)
Etching on Rives paper, 60 x 47 cm, framed, 5 copies, edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2009.
Jeffrey Vallance
500th Anniversary of the Birth of John Calvin (1509-2009)
Wooden stamp, 12 x 8,1 x 10 cm, 5 copies, edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2009.
Erik van Lieshout
The Assistant
Box, inkjet print on glossy and xerox paper, colour and black/white, 4 originals, 1 text/letter by Erik van Lieshout, 19 colour photocopies on glossy paper, A4, 2 black/white photocopies, A3 folded in two, 1 index folded in two and 1 colophon, cardboard box, 30.5 x 21 x 2,8 cm,10 uniques copies and 1 H.C., numbered, dated and signed on the cover and inside the cover, edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2009
The Animation Book
Artist’s book, ink-jet printed, colour, 32 pages, original drawings and collages on the front and back covers, card, 21 x 29.8 cm, 20 unique numbered, dated and signed copies, edition of Erik van Lieshout and the Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2009
