Peter Halley - Edition Schellmann: Fifty Are Better Than One London Thursday, June 6, 2019 | Phillips
  • Literature

    Jörg Schellmann, ed., Wall Works, Munich/New York, 1999, pp. 83-87
    Jörg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, p. 136 and p. 401
    Udo Kittelmann and Gabriele Knapstein, ed., Wall Works, Berlin, 2014, p. 150

  • 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

63

Static Wallpaper, from Wall Works

1998
A set of 48 screenprints in 16 colours, on wallpaper, the full sheets, to be installed pasted on a wall to cover it entirely.
all 76.5 x 94.5 cm (30 1/8 x 37 1/4 in.)
installation size variable and according to wall

Signed and numbered III/III in pencil on the accompanying Certificate of Authenticity (one of 3 artist's proof sets 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
£6,000 - 8,000 

Sold for £7,500

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Edition Schellmann: Fifty Are Better Than One

London Auction 6 June 2019