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Anri Sala Limited Edition

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“Anri Sala’s work offers a unique way of looking at the world that combines reflection on history, memories, and consciousness of the instant, with an absolute awareness of presence and disappearance.” Jury citation on announcement of Anri Sala as winner of Absolut Art Award 2011

On the occasion of Anri Sala’s exhibition, the Serpentine Gallery is delighted to present a new limited edition work by the artist.

Anri Sala
Untitled (Cactus 2) 2011
C-type print
50 x 50 cm
Edition of 150
£350 incl. VAT

Anri Sala (born 1974, Tirana) is a leading contemporary artist whose early videos and films mined his personal experience to reflect on the social and political change taking place in his native Albania. Winner of the Young Artist Prize at the 2001 Venice Biennale, Sala has attached a growing importance to sound in his work, creating remarkable pieces in which he recasts sound’s relationship to the image.

On the occasion of his exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, Anri Sala has especially created this Limited Edition Print. Untitled (Cactus 2), 2011, shows the Blue Agave, the plant from which the spirit tequila is made, shimmering as if photographed under conditions of extreme heat. The distortions visible in the image are the result of a sheet of antique glass that the artist placed in between his camera and the native Mexican plant. Made using pre-modern techniques, the glass bears the hallmarks of handcraftsmanship; the ripples and imperfections on its surface standing in contrast to the uniformity of standard, industrially produced glass.

Sala’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada (2011), Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (2008) and ARC Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris (2004), as well as in numerous group exhibitions internationally, including the Venice Biennale (2003 and 2001), Yokohama Triennial (2001) and Manifesta 3, Ljubljana (2000).

Own Art

The Own Art scheme is designed to make it easy and affordable for everyone to buy and collect contemporary art and craft. You can apply for a loan of as little as £100 or as much as £2,000 for the purchase of original works of art by living artists in any media, including painting, sculpture, photographs, ceramics and glassware, as well as artist-made jewellery and furniture. Loans are repayable in 10 monthly installments, completely interestfree – so you’ll never be paying more than the advertised price.

For further information please contact:

Tom Harrisson, Editions Manager
T + 44 (0)20 7298 1511
[email protected]

Limited Edition by Peter Zumthor

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“[Peter Zumthor] has a rare talent of combining clear and rigorous thought with a truly poetic dimension, resulting in works that never cease to inspire.” Thomas J. Pritzker, on the announcing of Peter Zumthor as winner of the 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize

On the occasion of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 designed by Peter Zumthor, the Serpentine Gallery is delighted to present a new limited edition work by the architect.

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011
Digital print on paper
74.5 x 37.5 cm
Edition of 150
£220 excl. VAT

The concept for this year’s Pavilion is the hortus conclusus, a contemplative room, a garden within a garden. One enters the building from the lawn and begins the transition into the central garden, a place abstracted from the world of noise and traffic and the smells of London – an interior space within which to sit, to walk, to observe the flowers.

Created by Peter Zumthor especially on the occasion of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011, this limited edition print is based on the original watercolour sketches that informed the design of the hortus conclusus. Describing the significance of gardening in his practice, he commented:

A garden is the most intimate landscape ensemble I know of. It is close to us. There we cultivate the plants we need. A garden requires care and protection. And so we encircle it, we defend it and fend for it. We give it shelter. The garden turns into a place.

At the heart of Peter Zumthor’s practice is a refined selection of materials used to create contemplative spaces that evoke the spiritual dimension of our physical environment. As always, Zumthor’s aesthetic goal is to customise the building precisely to its purpose as a physical body and an object of emotional experience.

Born in Basel in 1943, Peter Zumthor trained as a cabinetmaker. In 1979 he established his own practice in Haldenstein, Switzerland. Major buildings include Protective Housing for Roman Archaeological Excavations, Chur, Switzerland, 1986; Saint Benedict Chapel, Sumvitg, Switzerland, 1988; Thermal Bath Vals, Switzerland, 1996; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, 1997; Kolumba Art Museum, Cologne, Germany, 2007; Brother Klaus Field Chapel, Wachendorf, Germany, 2007.

Major awards include Carlsberg Architectural Prize, Copenhagen, 1998; Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture, Barcelona, 1998; Praemium Imperiale, Japan Art Association, 2008; The Pritzker Architecture Prize, The Hyatt Foundation, 2009.

This year’s Pavilion is the 11th commission in the Gallery’s annual series, the world’s first and most ambitious architectural programme of its kind. This is Peter Zumthor’s first completed building in the UK and includes a specially created garden by the influential Dutch designer Piet Oudolf.

To purchase this Limited Edition by Peter Zumthor please contact:
Tom Harrisson, Editions Manager
T + 44 (0)20 7298 1511
[email protected]

Michelangelo Pistoletto Limited Edition

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On the occasion of The Mirror of Judgement by Michelangelo Pistoletto, the Serpentine Gallery is delighted to present a new limited edition work by the artist.

Michelangelo Pistoletto
The Drawing of The Third Paradise 2011
Silkscreen on stainless steel
50 × 60 cm
Edition of 50

Michelangelo Pistoletto is one of the pre-eminent contemporary artists working today. Born in Biella, Italy, in 1933, Pistoletto was a leading figure in the development of both Arte Povera and conceptual art.

Throughout the 1960s, Pistoletto received critical acclaim for his series of Mirror Paintings. These works broke down the traditional notions of figurative art, reflecting their surroundings and the viewer as part of the image. Describing the significance of the Mirror Paintings in his practice in an interview in 1969, he commented:

“The mirror paintings could not live without an audience. They are created and re-created according to the movement and to the interventions they reproduced. The step from the mirror paintings to theatre – everything is theatre – seems simply natural. It is less a matter of involving the audience … as to act on its freedom.”

Created on the occasion of his exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, The Drawing of The Third Paradise (2011) links Pistoletto’s sustained engagement with portraiture to the use of mirror as a material with the most recent phase of his work, The Third Paradise. Pistoletto has returned frequently to the idea of self-portraiture as a means of linking art and life. The Third Paradise, represented by the symbol of The New Infinity, proposes a new level of human civilisation through an evolutionary transition, whereby human intelligence finds a way to co-exist with the intelligence of nature.

This symbol, which appears at the heart of Pistoletto’s exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, expresses the artist’s commitment to creativity of all kinds as a tool to inspire and produce social change. Pistoletto’s work links art and life in an ever-changing spectacle.

To purchase this Limited Edition by Michelangelo Pistoletto please contact:
Tom Harrisson, Editions Manager
T + 44 (0)20 7298 1511
[email protected]

Mark Leckey Limited EditionBigBoxStatueAction Special

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On the occasion of SEE, WE ASSEMBLE by Mark Leckey, the Serpentine Gallery is delighted to present two limited edition works by the artist.

“[Leckey's work] operates … on the knife’s edge where art and life meet”, Matthew Higgs, Artforum, April 2002

Mark Leckey
BigBoxStatueAction Special 2011
12” dubplate record in lacquer box
35 x 35cm
Edition of 50

£145.83 excl. VAT (£175.00 incl. VAT)

For BigBoxStatueAction (2003-11), Mark Leckey places one of his Sound Systems ‘in conversation’ with Henry Moore’s Upright Motive No. 9 (1979). In a series of performances that will take place during his exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, Leckey will play a sound piece created especially for the Moore sculpture in a bid to elicit a response and to coax it to reveal its ‘thoughts’. Leckey has produced a limited edition dubplate recording of this sound piece entitled BigBoxStatueAction Special (2011). Composed from sampled music, including drones and unearthly bass, the sound track establishes a dialogue with the scale and history of Henry Moore’s sculpture

Mark Leckey, born 1964, was awarded the Turner Prize in 2008. His work has been widely exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, in 2008 and at Le Consortium, Dijon, in 2007. His performances have recently been presented in New York at the Museum of Modern Art, Abrons Arts Center; at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, both in 2009; and at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2008.

Own Art
The Own Art scheme is designed to make it easy and affordable for everyone to buy and collect contemporary art and craft. You can apply for a loan of as little as £100 or as much as £2,000 for the purchase of original works of art by living artists in any media, including painting, sculpture, photographs, ceramics and glassware, as well as artist-made jewellery and furniture. Loans are repayable in 10 monthly installments, completely interestfree – so you’ll never be paying more than the advertised price.

For further information please contact:
Tom Harrisson, Editions Manager
T + 44 (0)20 7298 1511
[email protected]