Per Kirkeby | Flux Finger Sweater

Per Kirkeby

Flux Finger Sweater

New York City, USA: Fluxus, 1969

12 x 9.3 x 1.3 cm

Edition size unknown

A plastic box (I've seen clear, red and black examples) with a George Maciunas designed label, containing a hand knitted or crocheted thimble-sized 'sweater'. 

The work is a rare example of a Fluxkit with handmade contents. Typically the boxes were filled with mass manufactured or found items. 

Flux Finger Sweaterwas originally offered for $2 in the spring of '67, the price was raised to $3 in '68 and advertised again at the price the following year. After that the work was no longer advertised in Fluxus newsletters or pricelists.

Examples are held in the MoMA NY collection, and at the Harvard Art Museum. 

Per Kirkeby died in 2018. 

Yoko Ono | Season of Glass album cover

"Yoko called me. She wanted me to help her take a picture of the glasses that John was wearing on the night that he was shot. She took out John's glasses and the glasses are broken and bloody. We were both crying and it was really horrible to see them. It's not just a picture of some bloody glasses, it's a horrible moment brought out in public and stated publicly. Why shouldn't she shared that? What can't she share that? That's what she saw. 

- Bob Gruen, photographer

"I used a photo I took of John’s blood-stained glasses on the record cover. The record company called me and said the record shops would not stock the record unless I changed the cover. I didn't understand it. Why? They said it was in bad taste. I felt like a person soaked in blood coming into a living room full of people and reporting that my husband was dead, his body was taken away, and the pair of glasses were the only thing I had managed to salvage – and people looking at me saying it was in bad taste to show the glasses to them. "I'm not changing the cover. This is what John is now," I said."

— Yoko Ono

Hans-Peter Feldmann | Wackelbild 'Abschied' (Swinging picture, Good Bye)

 

Hans-Peter Feldmann 

Wackelbild 'Abschied' (Swinging picture, Good Bye)

Dusseldorf, Germany: Feldmann Verlag Shop

21 x 10,6 x 5,5 cm. 

Edition size unknown

Waving goodbye. 

Hans-Peter Feldmann | Untitled (Bottle Openers)

Hans-Peter Feldmann

Untitled 

Shark Editions/303 Gallery, New York City, 1992

15.2 x 3.8 cm. (each)

Edition size unknown

Published by John Goodwin's Shark Editions of Gallery 303, this scarce work features three silver-plated bottle openers, mounted inside a felt-lined box.

Hans-Peter Feldmann, RIP

Hans-Peter Feldmann died on May 30th, according to a shared announcement from his eight galleries—303 Gallery, Martine Aboucaya, Mehdi Chouakri Berlin, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Simon Lee Gallery, Galerie Francesca Pia, Projecte SD, and Barbara Wien:

“His unique personality and his artistic understanding of the world we are living in will stay alive in the art he has left behind,” the galleries wrote in their statement. “Our hearts and thoughts are with his beloved wife Uschi, with whom he shared art and life for many years.”

He was 82 years old. 

Enzo Mari | Sfera, series A

Enzo Mari

Sfera, series A

Milan, Italy: Danese Editions, 1959

11 x 19 x 19 cm.

Edition of 50 signed and numbered copies

Now valued at between three and four thousand dollars, this resin work is from a series of prints and three dimensional objects where Mari explored the optical qualities of squares in cubes and circles in spheres. 

Rachel Whiteread | Internal Objects

[Rachel Whiteread]

Internal Objects

London, UK: Gagosian, 2021

116 pp., 22.8 × 27.9 cm., softcover

Edition size unknown

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Rachel Whiteread: Internal Objects, this catalogue explores Whiteread’s engagement with the formal language of Minimalism, as well as her "acute sensitivity to objects’ minor details and subtle markers of use and human irregularity." 

The publication includes an essay by Richard Calvocoressi; a reprint of “The Chrysanthemums,” a short story by John Steinbeck; and a poem by Mark Waldron.