Portfolio

The Readymade Boomerang

1990

Large-format canvas box with prints by 21 artists
100 x 70 cm

Edition of 105
Edition A: 60 copies (numbered 1/60-60/60, all in portfolios)
Edition B: 45 copies (numbered I/XLV-XLV/XLV, as artist's proofs, of which XLI-XLV are in portfolios)

36.000 Euro
AP version 26.000 Euro
Selected contributions (Edition B) available individually

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Offset print by Dennis Adams shows a black and white photo of a museum room. Large prints of photographs from a concentration camp hang on black walls
Offset print by Barbara Bloom is an obituary for death itself. Black bordered sheet with 4 b/w photos: skeleton, Maja pyramid, charcoal and diamond, below is written: ASHES TO ASHES, DIAMONDS TO DIAMONDS, DUST TO DUST
Print by the artist KP Brehmer. On a rectangular black surface is an image from Le Corbusier's Modulor with geometric subdivisions of squares, below which are Chinese characters in red
Screen print by artist Janet Burchill shows a half-naked woman lying on a sofa and playing with a necklace that is wrapped around her stomach a few times. She is wearing a mask
Screen print by John Cage. A mesostychon. Words are written one below the other so that the title “THE READYMADE BOOMERANG”, highlighted in red, can be read vertically
Screen print by Rosalie Gascoigne shows a collage of cut-outs from traffic signs. It reads in black on yellow-gold: s m CLOSE OWLY
Offset print by artist Richard Hamilton shows a blurred television image of a man dressed as a member of the Protestant Brotherhood of Orange in a parade. Hamilton has applied red and silver enamel paint to the outline of the man by hand
Offset lithograph by Ilya Kabakov. In his typical illustrative style, a green panel is painted with an apple on its lower edge. Fields with text are painted in the upper corners. Below the panel is the translation: "Anna Lwowna Semina: To whom does this apple belong?; Oleg Borisowitch Lepin: I do not know"
Offset lithograph by Allan Kaprow shows a standing car tire against a light background with YARD written on the side
Lithograph by Björn Nörgaard in expressive painting style shows a dense row of yellowish mythological figures against a brown background by a river, with creatures with various symbols hovering above the figures
Graphic by Nam June Paik shows a series of boxes drawn in different colors that cover the entire page as screens, each with a face inside and an antenna
Graphic by Julian Schnabel shows the black and white portrait of a woman at the end of the 1950s, with a cut-out speech bubble at her mouth. It is the logo and slogan of the retail chain “TATI, LE PLUS BAS PRIX”, on a pink checkered background with blue lettering. Handwritten on the portrait is "I'd rather have a live woman than a frozen leopard. J.C.S. 90"
Graphic by Rosemarie Trockel shows a black and white photograph with a wide white frame. It shows a perfume bottle with a logo printed on it: a hammer and sickle, but the hammer has been replaced by a rose with thorns. The bottle stands on a piece of paper on which the logo is printed as a pattern
Graphic by the artist Peter Tyndall. A yellow grid of squares connected by 2 parallel lines is printed on a light background. Above it, in black, is written “Peter” in 4 lines, the writing is distorted so that the “e” becomes eyes and the word increasingly breaks apart
Woodcut by Ken Unsworth in brown showing three human figures in an implied wilderness and a boomerang in the background.
Graphic by Ben Vautier. On a black background, Vautier's typical handwriting reads: "am I or is australia far away? Ben"
Graphic by Boyd Webb shows inflatable zebras with yellow snouts held together in a net in the shape of a brain, on a stand against a background in shades of gray
The Lawrence Weiner graphic shows a blue rectangle with 5 oval cut-outs and a yellow oval distributed in such a way that it imitates the Southern Cross constellation. Spread across the surface is the inscription: POLARIS. SOUTHERN CROSS. WILD BLUE YONDER...
Graphic by Emmett Williams shows a short text on a light background that appears to have been moved during copying or scanning, so that only the beginnings of the lines are legible.

    Artists: Dennis Adams, Barbara Bloom, KP Brehmer, Janet Burchill, John Cage, Tony Cragg, Rosalie Gascoigne, Richard Hamilton, Ilya Kabakov, Allan Kaprow, Bjørn Nørgaard, Nam June Paik, Sarkis, Julian Schnabel, Rosemarie Trockel, Peter Tyndall, Ken Unsworth, Ben Vautier, Boyd Webb, Lawrence Weiner, Emmett Williams

    The portfolio “The Readymade Boomerang” was published within the 8th Sydney biennial “The Readymade Boomerang – Certain Relations in 20th Century Art” which took place in 1990.

    Works in portfolio
    The Readymade Boomerang

    Anémic Cinéma

    Dennis Adams

    Anémic Cinéma

    1990

    400 Euro
    Ashes to Ashes, Diamonds to Diamonds, Dust to Dust

    Barbara Bloom

    Ashes to Ashes, Diamonds to Diamonds, Dust to Dust

    1990

    Available with portfolio
    Vor Mondrian

    KP Brehmer

    Vor Mondrian

    1990

    750 Euro
    The Temptation of Exist

    Janet Burchill

    The Temptation of Exist

    1990

    Available with portfolio
    The Readymade Boomerang

    John Cage

    The Readymade Boomerang

    1989

    800 Euro
    Untitled

    Tony Cragg

    Untitled

    1990

    900 Euro
    Close Owly

    Rosalie Gascoigne

    Close Owly

    1990

    Available with portfolio
    The Orangeman

    Richard Hamilton

    The Orangeman

    1990

    Available with portfolio
    The Apple

    Ilya Kabakov

    The Apple

    1990

    1.500 Euro
    Yard

    Allan Kaprow

    Yard

    1990

    900 Euro
    The Reunion of Myths

    Bjørn Nørgaard

    The Reunion of Myths

    1990

    Available with portfolio
    Untitled

    Nam June Paik

    Untitled

    1990

    Available with portfolio
    Mr. Jekyll and Mr. Sarkis

    Sarkis

    Mr. Jekyll and Mr. Sarkis

    1990

    500 Euro
    Le Plus Bas Prix

    Julian Schnabel

    Le Plus Bas Prix

    1990

    Available with portfolio
    Rose von Kasanlâk

    Rosemarie Trockel

    Rose von Kasanlâk

    1990

    Available with portfolio
    detail: A Person Looks at a Work of Art/someone looks something … LOGOS/HA HA

    Peter Tyndall

    detail: A Person Looks at a Work of Art/someone looks something … LOGOS/HA HA

    1990

    Available with portfolio
    Windy Doggie Waiting By White Water

    Ken Unsworth

    Windy Doggie Waiting By White Water

    1990

    Available with portfolio
    Am I or is Australia far away?

    Ben Vautier

    Am I or is Australia far away?

    1990

    Available with portfolio
    Cortex

    Boyd Webb

    Cortex

    1990

    Available with portfolio
    Polaris

    Lawrence Weiner

    Polaris

    1990

    1.400 Euro
    The X Factor

    Emmett Williams

    The X Factor

    1989

    750 Euro