Cadavre Exquis, 2021
Inspired by the Surrealists' favourite game, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung gave an artist a work of art and asked to take from it a detail or an idea of choice and create a new artwork from it using a technique and media typical of their own artistic practice. The new artwork was passed on to the next artist from a group of 11, all given the same task. The resulting series reveals a constant loss and gain of information, rendering each artist's interests and signature visible in the contrast.
Each work is the interpretation of the preceding work – beginning with Edouard Manet's classic "Olympia". Only at the end did the full series become visible, taking up the entire FAS newspaper on 23 August 2020, when it was first presented. Thus, a collective work of art was created that became a document of the year 2020, from Corona to Black Lives Matter. Schellmann Art published the series of 11 digital pigment prints on hand-torn rag paper.
Laure
2020
From Cadavre Exquis / Manet Olympia
Digital pigment print, on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, hand-torn, 54 x 40 cm (21.25 x 15.75 in). Edition of 20, signed and numbered on label verso.
EUR 800
Lebenserbe
2020
From Cadavre Exquis / Manet Olympia
Digital pigment print under acrylic foil, with metal eyelets, on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, hand-torn, 54 x 40 cm (21.25 x 15.75 in), edition of 20, signed and numbered on label verso.
EUR 1,100
Cadavre Exquis / Manet Olympia / Scheibitz
2020
From Cadavre Exquis / Manet Olympia
Digital pigment print, on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, hand-torn, 54 x 40 cm (21.25 x 15.75 in). Edition of 20, signed and numbered on label verso.
Part of a collaborative project, this edition by Thomas Scheibitz responds to Édouard Manet’s Olympia. In his interpretation, Scheibitz deconstructs the original painting by separating its two central figures and repositioning them across the picture plane – introducing distance, tension, and an entirely new spatial logic. Into this rearranged composition, he inserts his signature visual vocabulary of bold, graphic shapes and stylized forms. The result is both a nod to art history and a distinctly contemporary reconstruction: a dynamic interplay between figuration and abstraction that reframes the familiar with Scheibitz’s unmistakable formal language.
EUR 1,500
Nice to not be a screen
2020
From Cadavre Exquis / Manet Olympia
Digital pigment print, on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, hand-torn, 54 x 40 cm (21.25 x 15.75 in). Edition of 20, signed and numbered on label verso.
special price € 900 / $1,000 shipping costs included
Der Körper antwortet
2020
From Cadavre Exquis / Manet Olympia
Digital pigment print, on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, hand-torn, 54 x 40 cm (21.25 x 15.75 in). Edition of 20, signed and numbered on label verso.
EUR 1,500
A Visit
2020
From Cadavre Exquis / Manet Olympia
Digital pigment print, on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, hand-torn, 54 x 40 cm (21.25 x 15.75 in). Edition of 20, signed and numbered on label verso.
EUR 800
Spargelstecher
2020
From Cadavre Exquis / Manet Olympia
Digital pigment print, on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, hand-torn, 54 x 40 cm (21.25 x 15.75 in). Edition of 20, signed and numbered on label verso
special price € 750 / $900 shipping costs included
Privileges Taken for Granted, a Cadavre Exquis
2020
From Cadavre Exquis / Manet Olympia
Digital pigment print, on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, hand-torn, 54 x 40 cm (21.25 x 15.75 in), edition of 20, signed and numbered on label verso.
This edition by Julie Mehretu was created as part of a series published by Schellmann Art for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in 2020 – a year defined by the COVID-19 pandemic and the global resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement. For her contribution, Mehretu intervened on a New York Times op-ed that reflects on how passports divide people into two groups – the powerful and the powerless – and how the privileged only became aware of this disparity when confronted with pandemic-related travel restrictions. Over the printed article, Mehretu layered gestural marks, abstract forms, and bursts of color, animating the page with her signature visual language. The work’s title is taken directly from the article and appears in the upper quarter of the print, visually emphasized by Mehretu’s sunburst-like highlighting.
EUR 4,500
Cadavre Exquis / Manet Olympia / Demand
2020
From Cadavre Exquis / Manet Olympia
Digital pigment print, with several embossings, on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, hand-torn, 54 x 40 cm (21.25 x 15.75 in). Edition of 20, signed and numbered on label verso.
This edition by Thomas Demand is based on an exquisite corpse game initiated by the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. Eleven artists took up a detail or an idea from the previous work and interpreted it in their own technique. The starting point was Edouard Manet's Olympia. The series combines individual signatures and at the same time reflects central social themes of the year 2020.
EUR 1,150
Disinformed to Death
2020
From Cadavre Exquis / Manet Olympia
Digital pigment print, on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, hand-torn, 54 x 40 cm (21.25 x 15.75 in). Edition of 20, signed and numbered on label verso.
EUR 1,200
Untitled
2020
From Cadavre Exquis / Manet Olympia
Digital pigment print, on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, hand-torn, 46 x 35 cm (18 x 13.75 in). Edition of 20, signed and numbered on label verso.
EUR 1,000
