Ottmar Hörl | Große Wandzeichnung

Ottmar Hörl

Große Wandzeichnung

Berlin, Germany: Artikel Editionen, 2000

Audio CD, 30:00

Edition of 100 signed and numbered copies

"The scupltor Ottmar Hörl drew with a pencil for 30 minutes on a wall. What the drawing looks like, you can only hear – on this CD.”

Steve Reich | Writings About Music

Steve Reich

Writings About Music

Halifax, Canada: NSCAD Press, 1974

80 pp., 19 × 24 cm., softcover

Edition size unknown

"Writings About Music is the first book by one of the most important and innovative composers working today. Steve Reich investigates the relation of Western composers to non-Western music, especially Balinese and African, and gives a musical analysis of some African music made during the composer’s visit to Ghana in 1970. He discusses the relation of music to dance both in our culture and in others and the development of his own music from the early tape pieces of the 1960’s to the instrumental pieces of the 1970's, stressing his movement away from electronics and towards live music. Writings About Music is fully illustrated with musical examples and photographs. It includes a list of works, important performances and recordings."

- publisher’s statement

Jiří Valoch | Optical Book

Jiří Valoch

Optical Book

Brescia, Italy: Edizioni Amodulo, 1970

[24] pp., 20 x 20 cm., staple-bound

Edition of 1000 unsigned copies

A rare artist book consisting of a single thin vertical red line in varying positions. 

Henri Chopin

Henri Chopin died on this day in 2008, at the age of 85.

Mike Kelley | Little Friend

Mike Kelley

Little Friend

Melbourne, Australia/Tokyo, Japan: Perks and Mini/Medicom Toy, 2007

41 x 25 x 18 cm.

Edition of 800

Valued at around $800 US, this blue fur and felt plush toy speaks twenty random phrases when squeezed. These include "Hurt me, I don't mind!”, "Do you really love me?”, "You’re my little sissy now” and “Get it away from me, get it away”. Batteries not included. 

"He's back! Do you miss the special love that a Little Friend can give? I bet you do! If you're like most of us, there's a Little Friend from your past whose voice haunts you across space and time. Little Friend is the specter of your childhood, when you stood at puberty's door.

"No, no," whined Little Friend, "don't abandon me!" ...But you did.

Maybe it took a little longer than everyone wanted it to. Perhaps you were guilt-tripped and teased. Now Little Friend has returned. Say hello to Little Friend, the voice of your past.

Little Friend: For the sissy in all of us.”

- publisher statement

Katharina Fritsch | Apple (for Parkett 87)

Katharina Fritsch

Apple (for Parkett 87)

Zurich, Switzerland: Parkett, 2009/2010

13 x 13 cm.

Edition of 48

A cast resin and paint apple, sold with a certificate of authenticity. 

The work is long sold-out and has a current value of upwards of $8000.00. 

"Their extraordinary autonomy from their surroundings strikes me as ultra-contemporary: rather than appearing like refugees from a recreation of a dance macabre or a German medieval fable, their true home seems closer to commercialized popular culture and to the disarming visual effects of film."

- Jessica Morgan, Parkett No. 87