Martin Kippenberger

Martin Kippenberger died on this day in 1997. 

Martin Kippenberger

Martin Kippenberger was born on this day, in 1953. 

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If you’re able to help Micah Lexier out with his quest to catalogue every Martin Kippenberger Broken Centimeter, please reach out to him via Instagram. 

Martin Kippenberger

Martin Kippenberger was born on this day in 1953. 

Martin Kippenberger | Untouched & Unprinted Paper

Martin Kippenberger

Untouched & Unprinted Paper

New York City, USA: Printed Matter, 1990

24 x 15 x 5 cm., loose leaves in slipcase

Edition of 50 signed and numbered copies

A slipcased ream of pristine paper wrapped in kraft paper and sealed with brown paper tape (the removal of which results in the destruction of the artwork). The artist has neither printed on nor touched the stack.

Furthering the remove of the 'hand of the artist' - it's reported that Kippenberger also didn't even see the paper. The work's label on the front of the ream was signed by the artist and mailed to Printed Matter from California, where he was teaching.  When the publisher mailed Kippenberger his artist copies of the edition to the same address, they were somehow lost in transit.

A copy of the work appears in the collection of MoMA (top image), but otherwise has almost no online presence. The other images were taken at John Goodwin’s home in 2013. Goodwin was the director of Printed Matter at the time, and oversaw the production of the work. 

Martin Kippenberger and Wilhelm Schürmann | Song of Joy

Martin Kippenberger and Wilhelm Schürmann

Song of Joy

Aachen, Germany: Neue Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, 1983

[20] pp., 29.7 × 21 × 0.1 cm., staple-bound

Edition size unknown

An early exhibition catalogue produced in an edition of approximately 800 copies. 

Available from Jonathan Hill Bookseller, here, for $300. 

“Song of Joy was published to accompany a group exhibition by Martin Kippenberger (‘gemalte bilder’ [painted images]) and his friend, the photographer and collector Wilhelm Schürmann [b. 1946] (‘Fotografierte Bilder’ [photographed images]) at the Neue Galerie Sammlung Ludwig in Aachen from 10 June to 24 July 1983. The catalogue contains a brief foreword [actually found at the end], a text co-authored by Werner Büttner and Albert Oehlen…”

– Uwe Koch, Annotated catalogue raisonné of the books by Martin Kippenberger, 1977-1997 (2003)

Martin Kippenberger | Kippen Seltzer

Martin Kippenberger

Kippen Seltzer

Lund, Sweden: Anders Tornberg Gallery, 1990

29.2 x 27.9 x 5 cm.

Edition of 25 signed, dated and numbered copies [+5 AP]

Made of carved wood, this work was produced on the occasion of the exhibition Jetzt geh ich im den Birkenwald denn meine Pillen wirken bald (Now I'll Go into the Birch Forest for My Pills Will Take Effect Soon).It is valued between three and five thousand dollars. 

Martin Kippenberger

Martin Kippenberger was born on this day in 1953. 

A Collection of Nine Kippenberger Editions, One Boetti Watch, A Cigarette and Yellow Photographed by Jonathan Monk

Jonathan Monk
A Collection of Nine Kippenberger Editions, One Boetti Watch, A Cigarette and Yellow
Photographed by Jonathan Monk
London, UK: InOtherWords, 2015
9.2 × 6.5 × 1.85 cm
Edition of 750

InOtherWords is an imprint founded less than a year ago by Oliver Knight and Rory McGrath of the London-based design studio OK-RM. This deck of 56 cards is their second publication.

Available at Tenderbooks, here, for £18.00. A signed and numbered edition of fifty is available from the publisher, here.