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Who is the artist?! Cool Mid Century Print Signed, by met on Aug 15, 2018 13:52:43 GMT 1, Hello Everyone, I picked up this killer print over the weekend and have been unable to determine the artist. I have seen some sales thread of similar geometric print designs from Victor Vasarely and thought someone here may know. It is dated 1969 and the signature appears to read "J Leri"? Thanks for your opinions!  [...] 
This is by an American artist called Josef Levi.
He did a series of similar prints in a variety of colours. They're based on or linked to perforated-metal and fluorescent-light sculptural works. See the following ARTnews article from February 1970:
williamswilsonwritings.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/wsw-1970-feb-josef-levi-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-artnews.pdf
You'll find other information via Google.
Hello Everyone, I picked up this killer print over the weekend and have been unable to determine the artist. I have seen some sales thread of similar geometric print designs from Victor Vasarely and thought someone here may know. It is dated 1969 and the signature appears to read "J Leri"? Thanks for your opinions! [...] This is by an American artist called Josef Levi. He did a series of similar prints in a variety of colours. They're based on or linked to perforated-metal and fluorescent-light sculptural works. See the following ARTnews article from February 1970: williamswilsonwritings.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/wsw-1970-feb-josef-levi-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-artnews.pdfYou'll find other information via Google. |
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Who is the artist?! Cool Mid Century Print Signed, by Rouen Cathedral on Aug 15, 2018 15:53:02 GMT 1, Great find. If you don't mind me asking how much did you pick it up for?
Great find. If you don't mind me asking how much did you pick it up for?
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Dive Jedi
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Who is the artist?! Cool Mid Century Print Signed, by Dive Jedi on Aug 15, 2018 15:57:38 GMT 1, Great find. If you don't mind me asking how much did you pick it up for?
Great find. If you don't mind me asking how much did you pick it up for? I mind. |
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Who is the artist?! Cool Mid Century Print Signed, by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 15:58:10 GMT 1, Great find. If you don't mind me asking how much did you pick it up for?
$30, Car boot sale. Sold it and now on holiday in Thailand.
Great find. If you don't mind me asking how much did you pick it up for? $30, Car boot sale. Sold it and now on holiday in Thailand. |
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Who is the artist?! Cool Mid Century Print Signed, by Dive Jedi on Aug 15, 2018 16:21:58 GMT 1, Great find. If you don't mind me asking how much did you pick it up for? $30, Car boot sale. Sold it and now on holiday in Thailand.
Great find. If you don't mind me asking how much did you pick it up for? $30, Car boot sale. Sold it and now on holiday in Thailand. Honeymoon ? |
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Who is the artist?! Cool Mid Century Print Signed, by Adam The Collector on Aug 15, 2018 16:35:37 GMT 1, Lol,
I purchased this at an auction for 10 usd... 
Lol, I purchased this at an auction for 10 usd... |
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Who is the artist?! Cool Mid Century Print Signed, by Adam The Collector on Aug 15, 2018 16:43:48 GMT 1, For what it's worth, I attend this same auction every week and rarely do I pick up such a nice little print for so little. Persistence pays off!
For what it's worth, I attend this same auction every week and rarely do I pick up such a nice little print for so little. Persistence pays off!
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Who is the artist?! Cool Mid Century Print Signed, by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 16:48:14 GMT 1, I think Hirst copied it, it has dots on, sue him
I think Hirst copied it, it has dots on, sue him
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Who is the artist?! Cool Mid Century Print Signed, by Rouen Cathedral on Aug 15, 2018 17:04:05 GMT 1, Lol, I purchased this at an auction for 10 usd...
That's pretty awesome. Good find!
Lol, I purchased this at an auction for 10 usd... That's pretty awesome. Good find! |
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Who is the artist?! Cool Mid Century Print Signed, by artgrenade on Aug 15, 2018 17:07:30 GMT 1, I think Hirst copied it, it has dots on, sue him
I think Hirst copied it, it has dots on, sue him I read that Hirst was first inspired to 'do the dots' from seeing a habitat shower curtain in his home in the 70's |
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Who is the artist?! Cool Mid Century Print Signed, by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 17:09:47 GMT 1, I think Hirst copied it, it has dots on, sue him I read that Hirst was first inspired to 'do the dots' from seeing a habitat shower curtain in his home in the 70's
I heard it was from putting on his Acne cream as a young teenger
I think Hirst copied it, it has dots on, sue him I read that Hirst was first inspired to 'do the dots' from seeing a habitat shower curtain in his home in the 70's Did you? I heard it was from putting on his Acne cream as a young teenger |
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Who is the artist?! Cool Mid Century Print Signed, by Adam The Collector on Aug 15, 2018 17:18:40 GMT 1, Lol, I purchased this at an auction for 10 usd... That's pretty awesome. Good find!
Lol, I purchased this at an auction for 10 usd... That's pretty awesome. Good find! Thank you, I am pretty pleased! |
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Who is the artist?! Cool Mid Century Print Signed, by artgrenade on Aug 15, 2018 17:31:03 GMT 1, I read that Hirst was first inspired to 'do the dots' from seeing a habitat shower curtain in his home in the 70's Did you? I heard it was from putting on his Acne cream as a young teenger
I read that Hirst was first inspired to 'do the dots' from seeing a habitat shower curtain in his home in the 70's Did you? I heard it was from putting on his Acne cream as a young teenger I once went to a launch of his selling similar stuff to this print on canvas which to be quite honest was pretty awful. He was doing a joint show with a bloke who piled up about 10,000 sweets on the floor. After some serious drinking my pal in his infantile way started re-arranging the sweets to make some big exploding phallic shapes out of them which seemed quite funny to everyone except security. Then Hirst turned up looking like a double for Phil Collins. I kid you not, he had gold sovereigns on every finger, a gold i-d braclet and a f**king great Mayor type medallion on the size of a 7" single. All we could think was well, yeah sure you've had some good idea's over the years, you're the richest living artist, a great publicist, but you do look like a complete and utter knob! |
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Who is the artist?! Cool Mid Century Print Signed, by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 17:34:01 GMT 1, Did you? I heard it was from putting on his Acne cream as a young teenger I once went to a launch of his selling similar stuff to this print on canvas which to be quite honest was pretty awful. He was doing a joint show with a bloke who piled up about 10,000 sweets on the floor. After some serious drinking my pal in his infantile way started re-arranging the sweets to make some big exploding phallic shapes out of them which seemed quite funny to everyone except security. Then Hirst turned up looking like a double for Phil Collins. I kid you not, he had gold sovereigns on every finger, a gold i-d braclet and a f**king great Mayor type medallion on the size of a 7" single. All we could think was well, yeah sure you've had some good idea's over the years, you're the richest living artist, a great publicist, but you do look like a complete and utter knob!
Excellent :-)
Did you? I heard it was from putting on his Acne cream as a young teenger I once went to a launch of his selling similar stuff to this print on canvas which to be quite honest was pretty awful. He was doing a joint show with a bloke who piled up about 10,000 sweets on the floor. After some serious drinking my pal in his infantile way started re-arranging the sweets to make some big exploding phallic shapes out of them which seemed quite funny to everyone except security. Then Hirst turned up looking like a double for Phil Collins. I kid you not, he had gold sovereigns on every finger, a gold i-d braclet and a f**king great Mayor type medallion on the size of a 7" single. All we could think was well, yeah sure you've had some good idea's over the years, you're the richest living artist, a great publicist, but you do look like a complete and utter knob! Excellent :-) |
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Who is the artist?! Cool Mid Century Print Signed, by met on Aug 15, 2018 18:01:18 GMT 1, Did you? I heard it was from putting on his Acne cream as a young teenger I once went to a launch of his selling similar stuff to this print on canvas which to be quite honest was pretty awful. He was doing a joint show with a bloke who piled up about 10,000 sweets on the floor. After some serious drinking my pal in his infantile way started re-arranging the sweets to make some big exploding phallic shapes out of them which seemed quite funny to everyone except security. Then Hirst turned up looking like a double for Phil Collins. I kid you not, he had gold sovereigns on every finger, a gold i-d braclet and a f**king great Mayor type medallion on the size of a 7" single. All we could think was well, yeah sure you've had some good idea's over the years, you're the richest living artist, a great publicist, but you do look like a complete and utter knob!
Perhaps not the most tactful intervention, especially since González-Torres was a gay man who died of AIDS at 38.
That said, what your friend did was arguably in keeping with the general concept of Candy.
Extract from Blain|Southern's information page for this 2013 exhibition (bold added for emphasis):
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Featured in this exhibition is Gonzalez-Torres’ “Untitled”, 1992, a unique sculpture made of candies individually wrapped in variously coloured cellophane. Copiously piled in corners or spread across the floor as glittering carpets, the work can be manifested repeatedly in different forms and can continually change shape through every presentation. Although unique, the nature of the work is such that it can exist in more than one place at a time, and it will be installed in three different forms within the gallery.
The viewer is invited to actively participate, freely choosing whether to touch, take or consume the candy, engaging in a vibrant and multisensory experience. These sweets may be replenished regularly by gallery staff, creating a dynamic and varied ebb and flow. The volume and form of the work is thus altered throughout each day, continual change becoming the only element of permanence that defines the ‘life’ of the work.
Gonzalez-Torres once described how the candy spills were about learning to ‘let go’, a ‘refusal to make a static form [or] monolithic sculpture, in favour of a disappearing, changing, unstable and fragile form.’ Indeed, the candy spills imply that change enables the means for our continued existence; that life itself is in a permanent state of flux. Linear time collapses, as past, present and future coexist within these works, which have the possibility to be continually replenished or to simply disappear; the expansiveness of any moment, beyond the physical, is suggested.
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www.blainsouthern.com/exhibitions/candy
Did you? I heard it was from putting on his Acne cream as a young teenger I once went to a launch of his selling similar stuff to this print on canvas which to be quite honest was pretty awful. He was doing a joint show with a bloke who piled up about 10,000 sweets on the floor. After some serious drinking my pal in his infantile way started re-arranging the sweets to make some big exploding phallic shapes out of them which seemed quite funny to everyone except security. Then Hirst turned up looking like a double for Phil Collins. I kid you not, he had gold sovereigns on every finger, a gold i-d braclet and a f**king great Mayor type medallion on the size of a 7" single. All we could think was well, yeah sure you've had some good idea's over the years, you're the richest living artist, a great publicist, but you do look like a complete and utter knob! Perhaps not the most tactful intervention, especially since González-Torres was a gay man who died of AIDS at 38. That said, what your friend did was arguably in keeping with the general concept of Candy. Extract from Blain|Southern's information page for this 2013 exhibition (bold added for emphasis): [...]
Featured in this exhibition is Gonzalez-Torres’ “Untitled”, 1992, a unique sculpture made of candies individually wrapped in variously coloured cellophane. Copiously piled in corners or spread across the floor as glittering carpets, the work can be manifested repeatedly in different forms and can continually change shape through every presentation. Although unique, the nature of the work is such that it can exist in more than one place at a time, and it will be installed in three different forms within the gallery.
The viewer is invited to actively participate, freely choosing whether to touch, take or consume the candy, engaging in a vibrant and multisensory experience. These sweets may be replenished regularly by gallery staff, creating a dynamic and varied ebb and flow. The volume and form of the work is thus altered throughout each day, continual change becoming the only element of permanence that defines the ‘life’ of the work.
Gonzalez-Torres once described how the candy spills were about learning to ‘let go’, a ‘refusal to make a static form [or] monolithic sculpture, in favour of a disappearing, changing, unstable and fragile form.’ Indeed, the candy spills imply that change enables the means for our continued existence; that life itself is in a permanent state of flux. Linear time collapses, as past, present and future coexist within these works, which have the possibility to be continually replenished or to simply disappear; the expansiveness of any moment, beyond the physical, is suggested.
[...]www.blainsouthern.com/exhibitions/candy |
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Who is the artist?! Cool Mid Century Print Signed, by Adam The Collector on Aug 15, 2018 18:10:31 GMT 1, It is truly amazing what these threads always lead to, haha
It is truly amazing what these threads always lead to, haha
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Dive Jedi
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Who is the artist?! Cool Mid Century Print Signed, by Dive Jedi on Aug 15, 2018 18:11:29 GMT 1, Hello Everyone, I picked up this killer print over the weekend and have been unable to determine the artist. I have seen some sales thread of similar geometric print designs from Victor Vasarely and thought someone here may know. It is dated 1969 and the signature appears to read "J Leri"? Thanks for your opinions!   
Looks like his green/yellow period, around 1969.
Hello Everyone, I picked up this killer print over the weekend and have been unable to determine the artist. I have seen some sales thread of similar geometric print designs from Victor Vasarely and thought someone here may know. It is dated 1969 and the signature appears to read "J Leri"? Thanks for your opinions! I think the artist who made this is J. Leri. Looks like his green/yellow period, around 1969. |
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Who is the artist?! Cool Mid Century Print Signed, by hungry on Aug 15, 2018 19:52:14 GMT 1, I once went to a launch of his selling similar stuff to this print on canvas which to be quite honest was pretty awful. He was doing a joint show with a bloke who piled up about 10,000 sweets on the floor. After some serious drinking my pal in his infantile way started re-arranging the sweets to make some big exploding phallic shapes out of them which seemed quite funny to everyone except security. Then Hirst turned up looking like a double for Phil Collins. I kid you not, he had gold sovereigns on every finger, a gold i-d braclet and a f**king great Mayor type medallion on the size of a 7" single. All we could think was well, yeah sure you've had some good idea's over the years, you're the richest living artist, a great publicist, but you do look like a complete and utter knob! Perhaps not the most tactful intervention, especially since González-Torres was a gay man who died of AIDS at 38. That said, what your friend did was arguably in keeping with the general concept of Candy. Extract from Blain|Southern's information page for this 2013 exhibition (bold added for emphasis): [...]
Featured in this exhibition is Gonzalez-Torres’ “Untitled”, 1992, a unique sculpture made of candies individually wrapped in variously coloured cellophane. Copiously piled in corners or spread across the floor as glittering carpets, the work can be manifested repeatedly in different forms and can continually change shape through every presentation. Although unique, the nature of the work is such that it can exist in more than one place at a time, and it will be installed in three different forms within the gallery.
The viewer is invited to actively participate, freely choosing whether to touch, take or consume the candy, engaging in a vibrant and multisensory experience. These sweets may be replenished regularly by gallery staff, creating a dynamic and varied ebb and flow. The volume and form of the work is thus altered throughout each day, continual change becoming the only element of permanence that defines the ‘life’ of the work.
Gonzalez-Torres once described how the candy spills were about learning to ‘let go’, a ‘refusal to make a static form [or] monolithic sculpture, in favour of a disappearing, changing, unstable and fragile form.’ Indeed, the candy spills imply that change enables the means for our continued existence; that life itself is in a permanent state of flux. Linear time collapses, as past, present and future coexist within these works, which have the possibility to be continually replenished or to simply disappear; the expansiveness of any moment, beyond the physical, is suggested.
[...]www.blainsouthern.com/exhibitions/candy
Interesting take on the piles, because I've heard a different meaning behind them. But this might also be that the description I'm thinking of is specific to certain ones.
If I recall correctly, he did a few of these 'candy piles', with some of them having distinct features to them that was representative of somebody he knew, thus being portraits. I believe the weight of one of the piles was supposed to be very specific, as it was the weight of his partner who died from AIDS. When a person would take a piece of candy, it was as if you diminished their existence, alluding to the idea of how AIDS diminishes the weight of its victims. However because the pile can be replenished, it's also speaking to how life is perpetual and a person is immortalized through memory.
I once went to a launch of his selling similar stuff to this print on canvas which to be quite honest was pretty awful. He was doing a joint show with a bloke who piled up about 10,000 sweets on the floor. After some serious drinking my pal in his infantile way started re-arranging the sweets to make some big exploding phallic shapes out of them which seemed quite funny to everyone except security. Then Hirst turned up looking like a double for Phil Collins. I kid you not, he had gold sovereigns on every finger, a gold i-d braclet and a f**king great Mayor type medallion on the size of a 7" single. All we could think was well, yeah sure you've had some good idea's over the years, you're the richest living artist, a great publicist, but you do look like a complete and utter knob! Perhaps not the most tactful intervention, especially since González-Torres was a gay man who died of AIDS at 38. That said, what your friend did was arguably in keeping with the general concept of Candy. Extract from Blain|Southern's information page for this 2013 exhibition (bold added for emphasis): [...]
Featured in this exhibition is Gonzalez-Torres’ “Untitled”, 1992, a unique sculpture made of candies individually wrapped in variously coloured cellophane. Copiously piled in corners or spread across the floor as glittering carpets, the work can be manifested repeatedly in different forms and can continually change shape through every presentation. Although unique, the nature of the work is such that it can exist in more than one place at a time, and it will be installed in three different forms within the gallery.
The viewer is invited to actively participate, freely choosing whether to touch, take or consume the candy, engaging in a vibrant and multisensory experience. These sweets may be replenished regularly by gallery staff, creating a dynamic and varied ebb and flow. The volume and form of the work is thus altered throughout each day, continual change becoming the only element of permanence that defines the ‘life’ of the work.
Gonzalez-Torres once described how the candy spills were about learning to ‘let go’, a ‘refusal to make a static form [or] monolithic sculpture, in favour of a disappearing, changing, unstable and fragile form.’ Indeed, the candy spills imply that change enables the means for our continued existence; that life itself is in a permanent state of flux. Linear time collapses, as past, present and future coexist within these works, which have the possibility to be continually replenished or to simply disappear; the expansiveness of any moment, beyond the physical, is suggested.
[...]www.blainsouthern.com/exhibitions/candyInteresting take on the piles, because I've heard a different meaning behind them. But this might also be that the description I'm thinking of is specific to certain ones. If I recall correctly, he did a few of these 'candy piles', with some of them having distinct features to them that was representative of somebody he knew, thus being portraits. I believe the weight of one of the piles was supposed to be very specific, as it was the weight of his partner who died from AIDS. When a person would take a piece of candy, it was as if you diminished their existence, alluding to the idea of how AIDS diminishes the weight of its victims. However because the pile can be replenished, it's also speaking to how life is perpetual and a person is immortalized through memory. |
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Who is the artist?! Cool Mid Century Print Signed, by Leo Boyd on Aug 15, 2018 21:20:29 GMT 1, I once went to a launch of his selling similar stuff to this print on canvas which to be quite honest was pretty awful. He was doing a joint show with a bloke who piled up about 10,000 sweets on the floor. After some serious drinking my pal in his infantile way started re-arranging the sweets to make some big exploding phallic shapes out of them which seemed quite funny to everyone except security. Then Hirst turned up looking like a double for Phil Collins. I kid you not, he had gold sovereigns on every finger, a gold i-d braclet and a f**king great Mayor type medallion on the size of a 7" single. All we could think was well, yeah sure you've had some good idea's over the years, you're the richest living artist, a great publicist, but you do look like a complete and utter knob! Perhaps not the most tactful intervention, especially since González-Torres was a gay man who died of AIDS at 38.
I went to an exhibition in Barcelona bleedin years ago with loads of really good American art and that was one of the pieces. I remember being pretty moved by that piece even as I stood, eating loads of the floor sweets, in front of the info board that explained what it was about.
I once went to a launch of his selling similar stuff to this print on canvas which to be quite honest was pretty awful. He was doing a joint show with a bloke who piled up about 10,000 sweets on the floor. After some serious drinking my pal in his infantile way started re-arranging the sweets to make some big exploding phallic shapes out of them which seemed quite funny to everyone except security. Then Hirst turned up looking like a double for Phil Collins. I kid you not, he had gold sovereigns on every finger, a gold i-d braclet and a f**king great Mayor type medallion on the size of a 7" single. All we could think was well, yeah sure you've had some good idea's over the years, you're the richest living artist, a great publicist, but you do look like a complete and utter knob! Perhaps not the most tactful intervention, especially since González-Torres was a gay man who died of AIDS at 38. Fantastic. I always wondered who made that piece. I went to an exhibition in Barcelona bleedin years ago with loads of really good American art and that was one of the pieces. I remember being pretty moved by that piece even as I stood, eating loads of the floor sweets, in front of the info board that explained what it was about. |
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