Mona Hatoum - Edition Schellmann: Fifty Are Better Than One London Thursday, June 6, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Jörg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, pp. 148-149 and p. 401.
    Udo Kittelmann and Gabriele Knapstein, ed., Wall Works, Berlin, 2014, p. 151

  • Catalogue Essay

    The Wall Works Series

    "Increasingly the limitation of fine art editions to prints and objects did not seem to reflect the technical possibilities and the recent developments in artistic strategies and actual art production. Installation in architecture had become an important issue both in theory and artistic practice. Edition Schellmann was trying to develop an idea as to how the concept of installation in a given architectural space could be realised as an edition. The result was the Wall Works project. It celebrates the basic idea of architecture being the ‘mother, the synthesis of the arts’. From the cave drawing on, in the development of the work of art, it has been an integral part of architecture."

    - Jörg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, p. 396

    "Hatoum has developed a language in which familiar, domestic every day objects like chairs, beds, cots and kitchen utensils are transformed into cyphers of ambiguity and threat. She is a conceptual artist whose own work focuses on such issues as the instability of birthplace, shifts in gender roles, and power dynamics."

    - Jörg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, p. 148

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Puzzled, from Wall Works

2009
The complete set of six mirror-polished aluminium plated MDF hardboard puzzle shaped elements, to be installed on a wall painted in matte white, grey, or black.
each element approx. 85 x 60 x 2.5 cm (33 1/2 x 23 5/8 x 0 7/8 in.)
installation size variable and according to wall

Signed and numbered 'AP 3/3' in black ink on the accompanying Certificate of Authenticity (an artist's proof aside from the edition of 15), published by Schellmann Art Production, Munich and New York. This wall work to be installed according to the artist's specifications on the certificate.

Estimate
£20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for £23,750

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Edition Schellmann: Fifty Are Better Than One

London Auction 6 June 2019