Graphic Work & Collector’s Editions
Ludion
Catalogue
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Pieter Vermeersch – Variations Leo Copers – IJsboek René Magritte – The Revealing Image Thomas Vandenberghe – Sorry Would Have Saved Me the Trip Lara Gasparotto – Summer’s Gonna Hurt You Louis De Cordier – Oriole (Biblioteca del Sol) David Claerbout – Olympia, Impression of Rain Hellen van Meene – Yellow Carole Vanderlinden – OZA Yutaka Sone – Seems like Snow Leopard Luc Tuymans – Dead Skull Luc Tuymans – Dead Skull Artist’s Book Luc Tuymans – Isabel, Diorama, Scramble, Twenty Seventeen Luc Tuymans – Surrender Luc Tuymans – The Rumour Philip Aguirre y Otegui – L’Univers des Formes Stan Douglas – The Secret Agent Jan Van Imschoot – La beauté incessible Wayne Gonzales – Crowd Guy Leclercq – Tabulae
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Order & Get in Touch
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Foreword
It is ten years now since Ludion began to publish graphic work, initially from Ghent and under the Graphic Matter imprint. The direction in which we wanted to take the publishing house was made clear with one of the first editions, a portfolio of two heliogravures by Thierry De Cordier, printed in Paris and titled Nada. From that time on, we would publish not only books about artists we consider interesting and important, but also screenprints, etchings, woodcuts and lithographs, together with limited book editions. We liked the archaic feel of these techniques, especially in a period of technological innovation. Fresh possibilities existed in the contrast between a tradition stretching back to Bruegel and Dürer and the digital world that was steadily imposing itself on us in the early part of this century. A fine example was offered by David Claerbout, who surprised us with a marvellous lithograph, even though he and his computer-controlled work belong to the absolute avant-garde. The idea also appealed to us that we could publish not only about but also with an artist and so help disseminate his or her work in the world. Another motivation was more prosaic: the publishing business was in the grip of a crisis ten years ago and dark clouds were gathering over the future of the illustrated book. Sales plummeted, publishers and book shops went out of business and the market contracted. Publishing graphic work by contemporary artists allowed us to steer our press through the storm. We are sincerely grateful, therefore, to all the artists – famous and less well-known – whose work you will find in this catalogue. Peter Ruyffelaere Publisher
In 2015 we published Satisfied Man, a woodcut by Kerry James Marshall. The edition has sold out and copies are now in museum collections such as the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Kerry James Marshall, Satisfied Man
Cincinatti Art Museum. We are working on new projects with
Woodcut, size sheet 71 × 56 cm, edition
Kerry James Marshall. If you would like to be informed,
of 15 + 3 AP, published in 2015
let us know at info@ludion.be.
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Pieter Vermeersch
new edition
Variations
Hand-painted book edition Oil paint on paper Size: 33 × 23.6 cm Edition of 100 Published in 2019
€ 250
Each copy is unique and painted by the artist
Ludion recently published the book Variations, which offers a complete overview of Pieter Vermeersch’s career. A limited edition has now been produced as an extra-large book (33 × 23.6 cm instead of 27.5 × 20.3 cm) with a glossy laminated cover. The latter’s blue gradient has been printed mechanically, but the color and proportions were determined by the artist. Pieter Vermeersch has manipulated the cover by adding fingerprints in oil paint – an intervention that pulls the abstract image back into the reality of the moment. This special edition refers directly to Vermeersch’s 2012 work on photography, in which he placed fingerprints in oil paint on C-Prints. Each copy is signed and numbered by the artist, while the colors of the fingerprints on the cover are different for each book.
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Hand-painted cover of the book
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Hand-painted covers of the book
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Pieter Vermeersch
Variations
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Leo Copers
new edition
IJsboek
Book in ice block Size ice block: 12 × 35 × 30 cm Size book: 26 × 21 cm Edition of 10 Published in 2019
€ 200
An appeal for tolerance
In past centuries, Christians set fire to the classical scrolls kept at the Library of Alexandria. Inquisitors in the newly discovered Americas ordered the destruction of Inca and Aztec writings. And a few short years ago, thousands of books and manuscripts were burned in Iraq and Syria because they were not devoted to the Prophet. Censorship and book-burning have occurred throughout history and it was in this context that Leo Copers came up with his IJsboek. As so often in his work, Copers is playing here with apparently contradictory elements to turn things on their head. This book, his monograph Dreams Are Made of This, has been consigned not to the flames but to a hefty block of ice, so that the knowledge it contains can be preserved and passed on to future generations. IJsboek is an appeal for tolerance.
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René Magritte
last copies
The Revealing Image
Portfolio of 5 modern photo prints representing René Magritte Numbered and validated by the Magritte Estate with blind stamp Size photographs: 10.9 × 8.3 cm (I), 22.1 × 15.8 cm (II), 11.5 × 15.7 cm (III), 5.5 × 8 cm (IV), 10.1 × 7.2 cm (V) Edition of 20 + 3 HC Published in 2017
€ 400
Facsimile photographs based on silver gelatin prints from the artist’s archive
Five photographs, based on original silver gelatin prints, offer us an intimate view of the painter’s artistic practice. Carefully staged scenes show him in front of masterpieces such as Le Masque vide, L’Evidence éternelle, and La Tentation de l’impossible. In a fourth image, he poses with a study he used later while painting. And in the 1928 photograph entitled La Sainte Famille, René and Georgette gaze into the lens with amused expressions. He has a plaster bust in his arms, while his wife holds their little dog Loulou in her lap. They look as though they are part of the painting standing on the easel above them. The photographs in this edition are facsimiles based on silver gelatin prints that belonged to the artist’s archive. Each edition is numbered and validated by the Magritte Estate with an embossed seal.
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Thomas Vandenberghe
last copies
Sorry Would Have Saved Me the Trip C-Print + book Size photograph: 10 × 15 cm Size book: 24 × 17 cm Photograph printed by Thomas Vandenberghe, Ghent Edition of 200 Published in 2017
€ 60
Last copies of an edition of 200, including a C-Print printed and signed by the artist
Sorry Would Have Saved Me the Trip is the result of a lost love. When Thomas Vandenberghe received a break-up letter from his girlfriend in 2011, he made a little book of photographs – his reply to the letter, in images. Six years later, the photographer reviewed and reworked his selection. The story in pictures shows how Vandenberghe tried to deal with the break-up, how he tried to escape his sorrow, and how those around him helped. Six people took him to six different spots. Sorry Would Have Saved Me the Trip is about a journey everyone has to make at some time or another to rediscover themselves. It never became a complete response to the farewell letter. Each edition consists of a copy of the book Sorry Would Have Saved Me the Trip and a C-Print printed, signed, and numbered by Thomas Vandenberghe.
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Lara Gasparotto
last copies
Summer’s Gonna Hurt You Inkjet print on Hahnemülle Photorag 308 g on Dibond 2 mm + book Size image: 33 × 26 cm Size sheet: 34.2 × 27.2 cm Size book: 32 × 24.5 cm Photograph printed at Noir d’y Voir by Pascal Damuseau, Louveigné Edition of 50 + 10 AP Published in 2016
€ 100
Last copies of the edition, which come with signed copies of Gasparotto’s book Ask the Dusk
In an interview with the arts and literature magazine Oogst (issue 5), Lara Gasparotto describes how she played by the river as a child, piling up branches and stones on the bank. Water is a recurring theme in her work – girls sunbathing by the riverside, kids diving and swimming, a red river near Seville… In Summer’s Gonna Hurt You, Lara Gasparotto shades beauty into melancholy, just as at the end of summer. Each edition consists of a copy of the book Ask the Dusk and the photograph Summer’s Gonna Hurt You printed on Hahnemülle Photorag and mounted on Dibond.
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Louis De Cordier
last copies
Oriole (Biblioteca Del Sol) Woodcut on Velin BFK Rives 250 g + book Size woodcut: 22 × 14 cm Size book: 24 × 17 cm Printed by Louis De Cordier, Spain Edition of 200 Published in 2019
€ 60
Last copies of a small but precious book edition comprising a woodcut printed by De Cordier in the Spanish Alpujarras
The artist Louis De Cordier set out in 2010 to construct his Biblioteca Del Sol, an underground repository of thousands of books and seeds, to which he continues to add. Far away from volcanoes and nuclear power stations, the library is intended to preserve knowledge for future generations, even after an apocalyptic disaster. This little book documents the surroundings, building, and use of the Biblioteca Del Sol. It includes a text by the author-poet Maarten Inghels together with Plato’s famous Allegory of the Cave. The publication comprises a woodcut by Louis De Cordier, printed, signed, and numbered by the artist. Each edition consists of a copy of the book Biblioteca Del Sol and a woodcut, Oriole, printed, signed, and numbered by Louis De Cordier.
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David Claerbout
Olympia Impression of Rain Original lithograph on Zerkall 270 g Size sheet: 65 × 80 cm Size image: 52 × 68 cm Printed by Atelier Hans Van Dijck, Antwerp Edition of 40 + 7 AP + 2 PP Published in 2017
€ 1200
Claerbout did not transpose something already created, but worked directly on the lithography stone
David Claerbout is known for his video and photographic installations, in which time seems to stand still. The artist makes a series of drawings around each of his projects, which help him explore his themes in more depth. This original lithograph is related to the video installation of the same name from 2016. Olympia (The real time disintegration into ruins of the Berlin Olympic stadium over the course of a thousand years), start 2016 is a virtual record of the decay of the stadium Hitler had built for the 1936 Summer Olympics. A monumental projection on two screens shows how nature will reduce the stadium to a ruin, without human intervention. The installation precisely reproduces the conditions to which the building in Berlin will be exposed for the next thousand years, using climatological updates downloaded in real time. The algorithm-driven process generates fresh images of ageing and decay every day. The work does not contain any explicit criticism of the Third Reich; it is time itself that, in a sense, wreaks revenge.
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Hellen van Meene
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Yellow
3 photographs in Ink Jet Size sheet: 10.8 × 8.9 cm Size image: 7.7 × 7.7 cm Printed by De Verbeelding, Purmerend Edition of 25 Published in 2013
€ 600
Polaroid-based edition
Hellen van Meene (1972) is regarded as one of the most important Dutch photographers of her generation. Yellow is a triptych: a young girl at a window, a boy in a room, and a child wrapped in a curtain. The work reveals as much as it conceals. The images are based on Polaroids that Hellen van Meene made in preparation for her photographic work. Bathed in a blinding summer light, the photographs evoke the vulnerable atmosphere of childhood. Yellow shows the photographer’s practice in sketches and explorations.
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Carole Vanderlinden
OZA
Portfolio of 3 original lithographs printed on Zerkall 270 g Size sheet: 73 × 53.3 cm Size image: 51 × 41 cm (O, A) and 73 × 53.3 cm (Z) Printed by Atelier Hans Van Dijck, Antwerp Edition of 20 + 3 AP Published in 2017
€ 800
Three lithographs that reflect the essence of Vanderlinden’s work: the play of form and color, the figurative, and the floral
Carole Vanderlinden works intuitively, without detailed preparation. She starts from a color, a memory, or a detail and works out the rest as she goes. This was the case for OZA – a suite of three lithographs. Although the three images are independent of one another, they nevertheless reflect the essence of Vanderlinden’s work: the play of form and color in O, the figurative in Z, and the floral in A. Carole Vanderlinden worked on this edition intensively for six months, in collaboration with Antwerp-based master-printer Hans van Dijck.
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“A”, from OZA by Carole Vanderlinden. See next pages for the complete edition
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Carole Vanderlinden
OZA
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Yutaka Sone
Seems like Snow Leopard Screenprint on Velin BFK Rives 250 g Sheet and image: 28.5 × 57.5 cm Printed by Seriart, Antwerp, supervised by Roger Vandaele Edition of 100 + 5 AP Published in 2016
€ 400
The snow leopard as a metaphorical self-portrait
The snow leopard is one of the most elusive motifs to pervade Yutaka Sone’s works; like his own peripatetic artistic practice, snow leopards (a protected species) seem to be everywhere, yet leave no trace of their movements. The snow leopard can be seen as a metaphorical selfportrait, as a cypher for the artist himself, or to represent the lone artist figure in general. For this image, the artist used his own cat as a model, transferring its spots onto those of the snow leopard.
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Luc Tuymans
last copies
Dead Skull
Screenprint on Velin BFK Rives 250 g Size sheet: 40 × 40 cm Size image: 17 × 17 cm Printed by Roger Vandaele, Antwerp Edition of 60 + 10 AP Published in 2010
€ 1200
Published on the inauguration of the 40m2 stone mosaic by Tuymans at the MAS, Antwerp
Dead Skull has been published on the occasion of the inauguration on May 17th, 2010 of a 40 sq m stone mosaic by Luc Tuymans, located in front of the MAS (Museum aan de Stroom), the newly built archaeology and history museum of the city of Antwerp. The image picked by Luc Tuymans for the immense mosaic square is that of his own 2002 painting Dead Skull, now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. This Tuymans work points to the history of the city of Antwerp, by using as its source image a commemorative 17th-century stone plate – affixed to the facade of the Antwerp Cathedral – in memory of Quentin Metsys (1466–1530), an early Renaissance painter and “founder” of the Antwerp School of painting.
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Luc Tuymans
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Dead Skull Artist’s Book
Boxed edition with a screenprint on Velin BFK Rives 250 g and a hardback book with an introductory essay by Kate Mayne Screenprint. Sheet: 40 × 40 cm; image: 17 × 17 cm Printed by Roger Vandaele, Antwerp Book. Size: 40 × 40 cm. Interior: 220 pages. Printing: pp. 1–16: 6/0 colors (4c process + 2 PMS); pp. 17–220: 2/0 colors (2 PMS). Endpapers: 2 × 4 pages. Text stock + endpapers: Ditto 190 g paper. Cover: 1/0 color (1 PMS). Binding: Smythsewn, 3 mm boards overdrawn with Wibalin 120 g, square. Printed by Godefroit–Gazelle, Antwerp Bound by Delabie, Kortrijk Edition of 60 + 12 AP Published in 2010
€ 1700
The Dead Skull Artist’s Book contains a screenprint on Velin BFK Rives 250 g paper (see p. 30–31) and a hardbound book (40 × 40 cm, 220 pages, printed in duotone) with an introductory essay by Kate Mayne and a detailed manual of the actual mosaic. The book has been designed and produced solely for this edition and is not for sale in the trade. The boxed edition is limited to 60 copies, all numbered and signed by Luc Tuymans.
Portfolio with Dead Skull screenprint
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Box
Box, book and portfolio with screenprint
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Luc Tuymans
Isabel, Diorama, Scramble, Twenty Seventeen Portfolio of 4 original color etchings printed on Hahnemühle Bright White 300 g Size sheet: 80 × 66.5 cm Size images: 23.5 × 19.8 cm (Isabel), 27 × 20 cm (Diorama), 23.5 × 20 cm (Scramble) and 20.4 × 20.4 cm (Twenty Seventeen) Printed by Atelier Hans Van Dijck, Antwerp Edition of 20 + 6 AP Published in 2017
€ 8000
An edition that reveals an early, unfinished stage in Tuymans’ creative process
The four color etchings Isabel, Diorama, Scramble, and Twenty Seventeen are based on iPhone photographs that Tuymans took while painting. They reveal an early, unfinished stage, which immediately evaporates during the creative process. The paint strokes that Tuymans places in the margin of the painting and the edges of the canvas are also incorporated in the etched image. The ephemeral plays a crucial role in the artist’s work; these color etchings belong to the same category as his tempera murals which no longer exist. At the same time, they offer a special insight into Tuymans’ working process. The crumpled piece of paper in Scramble – still pale in the etching – becomes a monumental, colorful ball in the painting, which contrasts sharply with the dark background. The canary in Isabel will eventually become bright yellow, a surprising color in Tuymans’ work.
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Detail. See next pages for the complete edition
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Luc Tuymans
Isabel, Diorama, Scramble, Twenty Seventeen
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Luc Tuymans
last copies
Surrender
Suite of 3 screenprints on BFK Rives 250 g in a portfolio Size sheet and image: 21 cm × 53.5 cm Printed by Tubbax, Antwerp, supervised by Roger Vandaele Edition of 80 + 20 in Roman numerals + 10 AP The copies 1/80 till 80/80 are the trade edition. The copies numbered I/XX to XX/XX are exclusively reserved for the Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée, La Louvière. Published in 2014
€ 2500
This edition is an exception in Luc Tuymans’ oeuvre in light of his usual reluctance to use black when painting
Surrender is a three-part cycle of drawings executed in white and green pencil on black paper. It reprises the opening sequence of the 1968 film Twist of Sand. A former British naval officer turned smuggler is confronted with his past when he is forced to return to treacherous waters near the Angolan coast in order to retrieve a batch of diamonds. The silkscreen edition – based on the three drawings – is built up of three colors: the black feels absolute and endless, printed as it is beyond the paper’s edges. The prints convey the grain of the pencil traces and also reproduce the vertical streaking drawn by the artist in the originals. Where the paper has been allowed to shine through, the white is particularly vibrant; in other areas the overlay of black, green, and white creates additional tonalities.
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Luc Tuymans
The Rumour
Suite of 7 color lithographs mounted on 4 panels of painted Plexiglas and wood, with birdcage Size panel 1: 91.4 × 231.1 × 6.4 cm; panel 2: 91.4 × 436.9 × 6.4 cm Color lithographs printed by Maurice Sanchez, New York. Wooden panels and frames, James Cooper, New York. Originally published by Brooke Alexander, New York. Edition of 18 + 2 AP Each edition arrives in 2 crates and will be mounted by our services. Published in 2002
Price on request
A monumental edition of seven color lithographs mounted on four panels of painted Plexiglas and wood, with birdcage
Luc Tuymans on The Rumour: “The latter originated in something I experienced during a holiday in Brittany. We visited various chateaux, and every time I was amazed to find that, at the entrance to the chateau, there was a little dome-like stone building with a little hole at the top – no windows or doors. In one case I overheard how a French father explained this to his son. When the holes were extended upward with a vertical line and these vertical lines were connected, in turn, with a horizontal line, one could determine the dimensions of the castle owner’s estate. Naturally, at that time peasant labourers were not permitted to own pigeons. That was a privilege of the aristocracy. The latter ate the pigeons, and used them as messengers. When the French Revolution broke out, the first thing the people who had belonged to a property owner did was to wring all of the pigeons’ necks. The eyes I painted were taken from a book on pigeon racing, which is very widespread in Belgium. Pigeon breeders can recognize the quality of the pigeons in the way in which the pigeons’ eyes are set in their sockets. This is why there are manuals which show an enlargement of the eyes next to every illustration of a pigeon. It becomes very clear that these are not human eyes. From the point of view of color, the eyes are spectacular. The first eye one sees is the darkest one. It is hung in such a way that the centre of the painting is at a height of 1.60 metres. Next to this, there is a large orange eye hanging below, and above it a darkened, smaller one. The uniformity of the arrangement is thus violated. One naturally has the feeling of being looked at – but in an enlargement.”
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Detail. See next pages for the complete edition ď‚Ś
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Luc Tuymans
The Rumour
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Philip Aguirre y Otegui
L’Univers des Formes
Suite of 7 etchings in a linen folder with a title page and a colophon Size sheet: 41 × 31 cm Size image: 25 × 20 cm (A, D); 24 × 18 cm (B, C, F, G) 30 × 22 cm (E) Edition of 15 + 4 AP Published in 2016
€ 900
A series of etchings in which Aguirre explores the formal vocabulary of his wider oeuvre
L’Univers des Formes is a series of seven prints done in a combination of etching and aquatint. The artist Philip Aguirre y Otegui uses the etchings to explore the distinctive formal vocabulary of his wider oeuvre, with direct references to his sculpture and to large-scale architectural pieces such as Théâtre Source in Cameroon. The series opens with abstract, almost surrealist forms. Bit by bit, though, we recognize elements from the real world, with the final etching actually containing several human figures. The influence of Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte is palpable.
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Philip Aguirre y Otegui
L’Univers des Formes
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Stan Douglas
last copies
The Secret Agent
Special edition of the book The Secret Agent + suite of 2 silver gelatin prints in a box Incl. colophon, signed and numbered by the artist: 1/100 to 100/100 Size photograph: 15.5 × 19.5 cm Size book: 26.5 × 21.5 cm Size box: 35 × 25 × 2.5 cm Edition of 100 + 5 AP Published in 2015
€ 200
Taking the fictitious role of a crime photographer, Douglas has created two selenium-toned silver gelatin prints
The special edition of The Secret Agent consists of a white hardbound book and a colophon page, signed and numbered by the artist, and two selenium-toned silver gelatin prints. The Secret Agent transposes a story written by Joseph Conrad in 1907 into Portugal’s seventies, a period of radical political changes that led to the liberation of the country’s former colonies. Douglas has retained the original characters and the plot, but transferred them to the turmoil of Lisbon soon after the Carnation Revolution in 1974.
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Stan Douglas
The Secret Agent
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Jan Van Imschoot
La beauté incessible
Screenprint on Rives Arches 250 g Size sheet: 67.9 × 57 cm Size image: 55.9 × 51 cm Printed by Seriart, Antwerp, in collaboration with Roger Vandaele Edition of 60 + 8 AP + 2 PP Published in 2017
€ 300
A nod to the Surrealists and Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel
La beauté incessible – “non-transferable beauty” – is based on the 2008 painting The End. Jan Van Imschoot drew inspiration for this work from the films of Luis Buñuel. Like the great Surrealist filmmaker, Van Imschoot plays with the boundaries between reality, imagination, memory, and fantasy. We find ourselves in a cosy, bourgeois interior. Yet it is a disconcerting space because of the huge portrait of Catherine Deneuve, who plays the leading roles in Buñuel’s Belle de Jour and Tristana. The portrait on the wall shows Deneuve in all her humanity, but also at a moment in which she gives way to her character’s deepest feelings. The Spanish–oriental bed is a nod to Buñuel, while the flowers, the fruit, and the coffee table refer to Flemish Baroque still lifes – compositions that simultaneously allude to wealth, eroticism, and transience.
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Wayne Gonzales
Crowd
Portfolio of 5 copperplate etchings printed on Hahnemühle 300 g in a linen box Size sheet: 45.70 × 35.55 cm Size image: 20.30 × 20.30 cm Printed by Greg Burnet, New York Edition of 40 + 10 AP Published in 2014
€ 900
Wayne Gonzales’s first etchings in over twenty years
Crowd, a series of five copperplate etchings, expresses Wayne Gonzales’ ongoing fascination with the theme of our culture’s indeterminate mass. These prints show a group of houses (inspired by a Walker Evans photograph from the 1936 series American Photographs), a group of people bathing, parked cars, and groups of people sitting and standing at the edge of a forest, perhaps waiting for a concert, a meeting, or a picnic. As with Gonzales’ large-scale paintings, these images leave the viewer with more questions than answers. For this series of etchings – the artist’s first in over twenty years – he applied scratches and cross-hatching directly to the copper plates to provide a diffused sense of light and dark, which paradoxically seems to add detail to the images. The portfolio’s five works take on a surprising and dynamic unity, despite the disparate content seen in each individual “frame.”
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Wayne Gonzales
Crowd
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Guy Leclercq
Tabulae
Suite of 4 Negrita prints on Hahnemühle 300 g, in a linen portfolio Size sheet: 54.5 × 39.5 cm Size image: 11.7 × 11.7 cm Printed by the artist, Wichelen Edition of 18 + 8 AP in Roman numerals Published in 2013
€ 450
Leclercq dropped a few drops of rum in the ink, which gives a unique yellowish-gold glow to the prints
Tabulae is a series of four abstract prints by Guy Leclercq that refer to the table, a motif that recurs frequently in his work. The prints are made using a relief printing technique (cardboard print) in which the printing ink is spread on both the higher and the lower areas of the corrugated cardboard. This results during printing in a difference in texture – the background is grainy, the table is smooth. The deep black shapes are demarcated by lines with a yellowishgold glow (produced by mixing a few drops of rum with the printing ink). The result is an exceptionally tactile and sensual work in which geometry and lyricism meet. The prints were made one by one during the summer of 2013 by Guy Leclercq himself in his studio and are based on unique designs. The slowness and care with which the process is carried out contribute to the quality of this extraordinary series.
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All Editions
Philip Aguirre y Otegui
Leo Copers
L’Univers des Formes
IJsboek
€ 900
€ 200
Suite of 7 etchings in a linen folder with
Book in ice block
a title page and a colophon
Size ice block: 12 × 35 × 30 cm
Size sheet: 41 × 31 cm
Size book: 26 × 21 cm
Size image: 25 × 20 cm (A, D),
Edition of 10
24 × 18 cm (B, C, F, G), 30 × 22 cm (E)
Published in 2019
Edition of 15 + 4 AP Louis De Cordier
Published in 2016
Oriole (Biblioteca del Sol) € 60 Woodcut on Velin BFK Rives 250 g Dirk Braeckman Ball Edition Sold Barbara Bloom Gifts Edition Sold Unique linen box containing 8 different giftwrap papers and a special edition of the book Gifts Each giftwrap paper printed twice Size image: 56 × 100 cm Printed in 4-Color Offset by Die Keure, Bruges Edition of 40 + 5 AP Published in 2015
Silver gelatine print mounted on an aluminium support
+ book Size woodcut: 22 × 14 cm Size book: 24 × 17 cm Printed by Louis De Cordier, Spain Edition of 200 Published in 2019
Size: 59.5 × 39 cm Printed by the artist Edition of 50 Published in 2001 David Claerbout Olympia, Impression of Rain € 1200 Original lithograph on Zerkall 270 g Size sheet: 65 × 80 cm Size image: 52 × 68 cm Printed by Atelier Hans Van Dijck, Antwerp Edition of 40 + 7 AP + 2 PP Published in 2017
Raoul De Keyser Retour Edition Sold Screenprint on Fabriano 300 g Size sheet: 56 × 76 cm Size image: 29 × 45 cm Printed by MB Graphics, Landegem Edition of 60 Published in 2007
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Lara Gasparotto Summer’s Gonna Hurt You € 100 Inkjet print on Hahnemülle Photorag 308 g on Dibond 2 mm + book Size image: 33 × 26 cm Size sheet: 34.2 × 27.2 cm Size book: 32 × 24.5 cm Photograph printed at Noir d’y Voir by Pascal Damuseau, Louveigné Edition of 50 + 10 AP Published in 2016
Raoul De Keyser Element Edition Sold Screenprint on Fabriano 300 g Size sheet: 76 × 56 cm Size image: 56 × 37.5 cm Printed by MB Graphics, Landegem Edition of 60 Published in 2007
Robin De Puy
Wayne Gonzalez
Cherish
Crowd
Edition Sold
€ 900
Archival pigment print on Baryta 310 g
Portfolio of 5 copper plate etchings
Size: 33 × 24.75 cm
printed on Hahnemühle 300 g in a
Printed by Robin De Puy
linen box
Edition of 45
Size sheet: 45.7 × 35.6 cm
Published in 2016
Size image: 20.3 × 20.3 cm Printed by Greg Burnet, New York
Stan Douglas
Edition of 40 + 10 AP
The Secret Agent
Published in 2014
€ 200 Guy Leclercq Special edition of the book The Secret
Tabulae
Agent + suite of 2 silver gelatin prints
€ 450
in a box
Raoul De Keyser
Incl. colophon, signed and numbered
Suite of 4 Negrita prints on
by the artist: 1/100 to 100/100
Hahnemühle 300 g, in a portfolio
Size photograph: 15.5 × 19.5 cm
Size sheet: 54.5 × 39.5 cm
Size book: 26.5 × 21.5 cm
Size image: 11.7 × 11.7 cm
Size box: 35 × 25 × 2.5 cm
Printed by the artist, Wichelen
Edition of 100 + 5 AP
Edition of 18 + 8 AP in Roman numerals
Published in 2015
Published in 2013
Groningen Edition Sold Screenprint Velin BFK Rives White 250 g Size sheet: 46 × 50 cm Size image: 23.5 × 25 cm Printed by Jan Lemaire at Affreux, Antwerp Edition of 25 Published in 2012
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René Magritte The Revealing Image I € 400 Suite of 5 modern photo prints representing René Magritte Numbered and validated by the Magritte Estate with blind stamp Size photographs: 10.9 × 8.3 cm (I), 22.1
Panamarenko
× 15.8 cm (II), 11.5 × 15.7 cm (III), 5.5 ×
Four-Leaf Clovers Do Not Exist
8 cm (IV), 10.1 × 7.2 cm (V)
Edition Sold
Edition of 20 + 3 HC Offset print in a Plexi box
Published in 2017
Offset print on Chromolux 90 g Kerry James Marshall
(field of four-leaf clovers), cut-out
Untitled (Man)
by laser and mounted on Steinbach
Edition Sold
300 g (background) + offset print on Steinbach 300 g (maybug) and cut-out
Woodcut
by laser, in a Plexi box
Size sheet: 68 × 56 cm
Size: 30 × 40 cm
Size image: 55.9 × 50 cm
Printed by Godefroit, Antwerp
Printed by Hummingbird Press,
Edition of 100
under the supervision of
Published in 2009
Thomas Lucas, Chicago Signed and numbered by the artist Edition of 15 + 3 AP Published in 2017 Kerry James Marshall Satisfied Man Edition Sold Woodcut Size sheet: 71 × 56 cm Size image: 61 × 46 cm Printed by Kerry James Marshall, Chicago Edition of 15 + 3 AP Published in 2015
Panamarenko Blimp Edition Sold Screenprint in a Plexi box Silkscreen (11 colors) on Steinbach 300 g, with zeppelin on PVC, floating on the print. Top left, pasted label. Comes in a Plexi box Size: 24 × 32 cm Printed by Dictus, Kapellen Edition of 75 Published in 2013
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Yutaka Sone Seems Like Snow Leopard € 400 Screenprint on BFK Rives 250 g velin, handmade paper Sheet and image: 28.5 × 57.5 cm Printed by Seriart, Antwerp, supervised Panamarenko
Roger Raveel
by Roger Vandaele
Adamski Saucer
A Théoule
Edition of 100 + 5 AP
Edition Sold
Edition Sold
Published in 2016
Screenprint on dibond plate
Screenprint on BFK Rives 250 g
Luc Tuymans
Size: 40 × 56 cm
Size sheet and image: 56 × 76 cm
The Rumour
Printed by Dictus, Kapellen
Printed by Tubbax, Antwerp,
Price on Request
Edition of 60
supervised by Roger Vandaele
Published in 2014
Edition of 100 (numbered 1/100 to
Suite of 7 color lithographs mounted on
100/100) + 26 AP (numbered A/Z to
4 panels of painted Plexiglas and wood,
Z/Z)
with birdcage
Published in 2012
Size panel 1: 91.4 × 231.1 × 6.4 cm; panel 2: 91.4 × 436.9 × 6.4 cm Color lithographs printed by Maurice Sanchez, New York. Wooden panels and frames, James Cooper, New York. Originally published by Brooke Alexander, New York. Edition of 18 + 2 AP Each edition arrives in 2 crates and will be mounted by our services.
Roger Raveel
Published in 2002
La côte d’azur Edition Sold
Roger Raveel In Memory of Dulcia Edition Sold Acrylic paint and reflecting glass on wood Size column: 3.3 × 3.3 × 60 cm Size pedestal: 15 × 15 cm
Screenprint on BFK Rives 250 g Size sheet and image: 56 × 76 cm Printed by Tubbax, Antwerp, supervised by Roger Vandaele Edition of 100 (numbered 1/100 to 100/100) + 26 AP (numbered A/Z to Z/Z) Published in 2012
Edition of 60 (numbered 1/60 – 60/60) + 12 AP (numbered A/L – L/L) + 8 HC (numbered HC I/VIII – HC VIII/VIII) Published in 2009
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Luc Tuymans Dead Skull Artist’s Book € 1700 Boxed edition with a screenprint on Velin BFK Rives 250 g and a hardback book with an introductory essay by Kate Mayne Screenprint. Sheet: 40 × 40 cm; image: 17 × 17 cm. Printed by Roger Vandaele, Antwerp Book. Size: 40 × 40 cm. Interior: 220 pages. Printing: pp. 1–16: 6/0 colors (4c process + 2 PMS); pp. 17–220: 2/0 colors Luc Tuymans
(2 PMS). Endpapers: 2 × 4 pages. Text
Suspended
stock + endpapers: Ditto 190 g paper.
Edition Sold
Cover: 1/0 color (1 PMS). Binding: Smyth-sewn, 3 mm boards overdrawn
Screenprint on Somerset Velvet 250 g
with Wibalin 120 g, square. Printed by
Size sheet: 75 × 56 cm
Godefroit–Gazelle, Antwerp
Size image: 30 × 20 cm
Bound by Delabie, Kortrijk
Printed by Roger Vandaele, Antwerp
Edition of 60 + 12 AP
Edition of 100 + 15 AP
Published in 2010
Published in 2007 Luc Tuymans Dead Skull
Luc Tuymans
€ 1200
ALLO! Edition Sold
Screenprint on Velin BFK Rives 250 g Size sheet: 40 × 40 cm
Suite of 3 screenprints on Rives Arches
Size image: 17 × 17 cm
250 g in a portfolio
Printed by Roger Vandaele, Antwerp
Size sheet: 56.2 × 69.9 cm
Edition of 60 + 10 AP
Size image: 36.8 × 51.4 cm
Published in 2010
Printed by Tubbax, Antwerp, supervised by Roger Vandaele Edition of 50 + 10 in Roman numerals + 10 AP Luc Tuymans 4PM Edition Sold Screenprint on Rives Arches 250 g Size sheet: 75 × 56 cm Size image: 67 × 49 cm Printed by Roger Vandaele, Antwerp Edition of 60 + 10 AP Published in 2011
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Published in 2012
Luc Tuymans Surrender € 2500 Suite of 3 screenprints on BFK Rives 250 g in a portfolio Size sheet and image: 21 × 53.5 cm Printed by Tubbax, Antwerp, supervised by Roger Vandaele Edition of 80 + 20 in Roman numerals + 10 AP
Luc Tuymans
The copies 1/80 to 80/80 are the trade
The Valley
edition. The copies numbered I/XX
Edition Sold
to XX/XX are exclusively reserved for the Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image
Screenprint on BFK Rives 300 g
imprimée, La Louvière.
Size sheet and image: 71 × 72.5 cm
Published in 2014
Printed by Tubbax, Antwerp, supervised by Roger Vandaele Edition of 75 + 35 in Roman numerals + 10 AP Published in 2012
Luc Tuymans Peaches and Technicolor Edition Sold Suite of 2 screenprints on BFK Rives 250 g in a portfolio Size sheet: 76 × 56 cm Luc Tuymans Orchid Edition Sold Screenprint on Rives Arches 250 g Size sheet: 73.5 × 56 cm Size image: 56.5 × 43.5 cm Printed by Tubbax, Antwerp, supervised by Roger Vandaele Edition of 80 + 5 AP Published in 2013
Size image Peaches: 60 × 40.5 cm Size image Technicolor: 60 × 45.1 cm Printed by Tubbax, Antwerp, supervised by Roger Vandaele Edition of 75 + 15 in Roman numerals + 15 AP + 5 PP The copies numbered 1/75 to 75/75 are reserved exclusively for the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst in Dresden e.V. and Förderverein Staatsschauspiel Dresden. The copies I/XV to XV/XV are the trade edition. Published in 2013
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Thomas Vandenberghe Sorry Would Have Saved Me the Trip € 60 C-Print + book Size photograph: 10 × 15 cm Size book: 24 × 17 cm Photograph printed by Thomas Vandenberghe, Ghent Edition of 200 Published in 2017 Carole Vanderlinden Luc Tuymans The Nose Edition Sold Screenprint on Rives Arches 250 g Size sheet: 26.5 × 21 cm Printed by Roger Vandaele, Antwerp Edition of 75 + 5 AP Published in 2015 Luc Tuymans Isabel, Diorama, Scramble, Twenty Seventeen € 8000 Portfolio of 4 original color etchings printed on Hahnemühle Bright White 300 g paper Size sheet: 80 × 66.5 cm Size images: 23.5 × 19.8 cm (Isabel), 27 × 20 cm (Diorama), 23.5 × 20 cm (Scramble) and 20.4 × 20.4 cm (Twenty Seventeen) Printed by Atelier Hans Van Dijck, Antwerp Edition of 20 + 6 AP Published in 2017
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OZA € 900 Portfolio of 3 original lithographs printed on Zerkall 270 g Size sheet: 73 × 53.3 cm Size image: 51 × 41 cm (O, A) and 73 × 53.3 cm (Z) Printed by Atelier Hans Van Dijck, Antwerp Edition of 20 + 3 AP Published in 2017 Jan Van Imschoot La beauté incessible € 300 Screenprint on Rives Arches 250 g Size sheet: 67.9 × 57 cm Size image: 55.9 × 51 cm Printed by Seriart, Antwerp, in collaboration with Roger Vandaele Edition of 60 + 8 AP + 2 PP Published in 2017
Hellen van Meene Tout va disparaître, à Saint-Petersbourg Edition Sold C-Print mounted on 2 mm dibond Size sheet: 35 × 35 cm Size image: 25 × 25 cm Printed by De Verbeelding, Purmerend Edition of 25 Published in 2008
Hellen van Meene Yellow € 600 3 photographs in Ink Jet Size sheet: 10.8 × 8.9 cm Size image: 7.7 × 7.7 cm Printed by De Verbeelding, Purmerend Edition of 25 Published in 2013 Hellen van Meene Delphinium Edition Sold C-Print mounted on 2 mm dibond Size sheet: 39 × 39 cm Size image: 18 × 18 cm Printed by De Verbeelding, Purmerend Edition of 25 Published in 2015 Hellen van Meene
Pieter Vermeersch
Achimenes
Variations
Edition Sold
€ 250
C-Print mounted on 2 mm dibond
Hand-painted book edition
Size sheet: 39 × 39 cm
Oil paint on paper
Size image: 18 × 18 cm
Size: 33 × 23.6 cm
Printed by De Verbeelding, Purmerend
Edition of 100
Edition of 25
Published in 2019
Published in 2015 Hellen van Meene The Secret Lives of Girls Edition Sold 5 photographs in C-Print Size sheet: 30.5 × 24 cm Size image: 23 × 23 cm Printed by De Verbeelding, Purmerend Edition of 25 Published in 2012
All prices correct as of November 2019 and may change without prior notice. Please check ludion.be/prints for the latest status.
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Sneak Preview
Printmaking remains an essential part of our publishing activities and so we are working on a series of new artists’ editions that will appear next year. These will include a new edition by Pieter Vermeersch, this time on marble, and we are collaborating with the American artist Kerry James Marshall on a woodcut portfolio. We also plan to publish a magnificent series of lithographs next year by the German-Japanese artist Maki Na Kamura. We won’t give away any more just yet, but don’t hesitate to mail us at info@ludion.be if you’d like to be kept informed about our print-publishing programme or are interested in a specific project.
Visit to Kerry James Marshall’s studio in Chicago, September 2019
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Visit to Pieter Vermeersch’s studio in Turin, November 2019
Work by Maki Na Kamura in the studio of master printer Hans Van Dijck in Antwerp, 2019
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Order & Get in Touch
WANT TO ORDER? You can order directly on our website: www.ludion.be/prints Or you can send us your order by email (info@ludion.be) or by giving us a call (+32 2 449 18 80).
GET IN TOUCH Need help? Any questions? Want to request an appointment? We will be happy to assist you. Please contact info@ludion.be +32 2 449 18 80 You’re always welcome at our offices to have a look at our editions, but please book an appointment first. Our address is: Ludion Publishers Zennestraat 34b 1000 Brussels, Belgium Ludionpublishers @ludionpublishers For notifications of forthcoming special editions please register at info@ludion.be. For all our prints and editions visit www.ludion.be/prints
Ludion Collector’s Editions Catalogue, Fall 2019 Layout by Dylan Van Elewyck