Edition Size

Edition Size

Edition size refers to the total number of copies produced in a specific edition of prints or artworks.

The size of an edition can significantly impact the value of each individual piece; smaller editions are often considered more exclusive and therefore may command higher prices. Artists and publishers usually decide on the edition size based on various factors such as the artwork's popularity, the artist's reputation, and market demand.

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What is an edition?

At Avant Arte, limited edition artworks are our bread and butter. As with many good things, they come wrapped in jargon. Read on for a quick fix summary of everything you need to know to start collecting.
What is an edition?
Sculpture

CHATTE PARFAITE

30 unique artworks form an ensemble of grinning bronze cats by Ryan Travis Christian.

The devilish cat originates from Christian’s drawing Cut Dick, depicting a row of cats standing in hell. In a sculptural re-imagining, each cat holds a framed graphite drawing, riffing on vintage rubber-hose animation.

Spanning loaded themes such as gunplay, medication, self depreciation and dizzying abstract patterns, each drawing is a dive into the artist’s mind. With a plethora of satirical connotations attached to each illustration, Christian hopes for the viewer to determine what story each cat holds.

Please note that works from the edition will be randomly assigned.

CHATTE PARFAITE
Sculpture

Umma

Jang Koal leans on ancient associations of the female and the feline to create Umma.

Umma, Korean for Mother, is a sculptural interpretation of the artist’s original painting ‘Mother of Cats’. A glossy female figure reclines nude, complimenting Koal’s elegant graphic language. She is surrounded by hand-painted bronze cats – the black symbolises protection, the white feeds from one of her six teats. This vision of harmony between feline and human implies that we are not as different as we seem.

Umma
Print

Too Darn Hot

To benefit the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, silkscreen print Too Darn Hot combines a landmark moment for Tom Sachs’ practice with his continued investigations of the past, present and future of authentication.

“The thing about faith is that it's for the faithful. It only works if you believe in it.”

The acquisition of Too Darn Hot – a ‘frankenrocket’ from Sachs’ trailblazing Rocket Factory project – by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) underscored the museum’s position as one of the most progressive in the world with regard to the intersections of art and technology. To support the future of this position, 40% of proceeds from the Sachs’ first Avant Arte edition will be donated to LACMA.

Each 13-colour silkscreen print includes a group of mechanisms conceived by the artist to establish its authenticity, and as integral parts of the artwork. A debossed design includes information from the launch of Sachs’ physical Too Darn Hot rocket at LACMA in 2021. A rubber stamp in its centre denotes the print’s specific number within the overall edition. A QR code printed in UV ink connects each print with the original Too Darn Hot NFT metadata on the blockchain. On the print’s reverse is a tamper-proof holographic sticker, placed alongside a QR code sticker that links to a unique token on the blockchain – an NFT – which serves as a certificate of authenticity for the print it connects with. A second, printed certificate of authenticity shipped with each print also links directly to this NFT.

The exact edition size will be determined by the number of prints ordered in the 24 hour release window. When this window ends, artworks will be printed, authenticated and shipped worldwide free of charge.

Too Darn Hot
Print

moon moth lust in warm copper

Jonny Niesche explores the unique materiality of copper in his captivating print, moon moth lust in warm copper.

Exploring themes of beauty, lust and desire the work draws inspiration from a moth's intuition to fly towards a light source – in this case the moon. The hypnotic green and pink gradient is sampled from a Spanish moon moth and vintage Avon beauty bottles. These colours highlight the undertones of brushed copper, the reflective qualities of which run through the artist’s practice.

”Since childhood, the dense allure of copper always seemed to harbour a sense of magic for me.”

moon moth lust in warm copper

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Parra's studio, with Parra at the centre, his back to the camera as he works on the large painting takes centre stage, showing a faceless blue woman in a striped dress, painted in red, purple, blue and teal. The studio is full of brightly coloured paints, with a large window on the right and a patterned rug across the floor under the painting.