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Edition Schellmann: Fifty Are Better Than One

London Auction 6 June 2019

  • Literature

    Jörg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, p. 356 and p. 405
    Udo Kittelmann and Gabriele Knapstein, ed., Wall Works, Berlin, 2014, p. 168

  • Catalogue Essay

    The wall vinyl forming part of this Lot will be printed after the sale to the owner's installation specifications.

    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

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Lawrence Weiner

Aphorism-Archimedes, from Wall Works

2007
Two adhesive vinyls in colours, to be installed on a white painted wall.
vinyls and installation size variable and according to wall
Signed and numbered 'A.P. 2/3' in black ink on the accompanying Certificate of Authenticity (an artist's proof copy aside from the edition of 15), published by Edition Schellmann, Munich and New York. This wall work to be installed according to the artist's specifications on the certificate.

Estimate
£15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for £21,250

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Anne Schneider-Wilson

Head of Sale, Senior Specialist 
London
+44 207 4042

Edition Schellmann: Fifty Are Better Than One

London Auction 6 June 2019