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The exhibition reveals, each day of a calendar month corresponding to the opening days of the Hot Wheels gallery in London, a distinct action carried out by curator and essayist Pierre Bal-Blanc since 1988, under the aegis of Jeff Wall Production. 

The artifacts resulting from these interventions (lectures, performances, exhibitions, publications, etc.) are repurposed through their commercialization by the gallery. Rather than mere archival documents, these pieces offer the possibility of reenacting the original actions in a renewed form.

New interventions, linked to the context or temporality of the exhibition, punctuate the daily program. The expression “It’s like the curate’s egg” refers to the building where Franco-British illustrator George du Maurier once lived, who popularized the phrase in the press, and which now houses the exhibition. A commemorative “Blue Plaque” installed on the gallery’s façade is reinterpreted within the space.

During the exhibition, specifically between March 12 and 29, around ten works will be progressively displayed, referencing paintings by Mutlu Cerkez created in the 1990s. These works were originally dated forward with the intention of an eventual reproduction in March 2025—an intention that, due to Cerkez’s early death, was never realized. This resynchronization offers a new reading of the work of the Turkish-Cypriot-Australian artist and his influence, following an approach previously explored in I GOT UP by On Kawara in a past Jeff Wall Production project at the Hot Wheels gallery in Athens.

Jeff Wall Production aims to rethink modes of recognition by moving beyond the necessity of an artist’s status to legitimize its actions. Since 1988, this approach has paved the way for new forms of authority, whose significance has become even more evident in the age of artificial intelligence.

List of Works

March 1st, 2025
Every Day There is Something Different
Vinyl wall text
25 x 5 cm

Pierre Bal-Blanc
The Jeff Wall Senior Curator, Department of Scores and Prints established from March 1st to 29th, 2025
(a) 91 Great Russell Street, WC1B 3PS
London, United Kingdom
Business cards

The Jeff Wall Gallery of Scores and Prints, 2025
Vinyl wall text
100 x 7 cm

Jeff Wall Production Since 1988
Essayist was established here March 1st – 29th, 2025
Facsimile of blue plaque
45.7 x 45.7 cm

George Du Maurier
“It’s like the curate’s egg”, 1895-2025
Score for The Jeff Wall Collection (On Sale)
Facsimile, archival pigment print
15 x 11 cm

The Jeff Wall Collection (On Sale)
Selected works packed and sent from Hot wheels Athens
Organized for each day of a calendar month corresponding to the opening days of the Hot Wheels London, 2025

A Jeff Wall Production by Marianne Maric
Endymion (Tsarouchis window), 2025
Photographic print on static cling vinyl
66 x 99 cm

Etienne Baudet
Score for the Cynics Republic, 2024
Landscape with Diogenes, after Nicolas Poussin
Poussin engraving
70 x 92 cm (framed)
Editions Réunion des Musées Nationaux

Smalltown Boy, (1984) 2025
Lecture performance

March 5th, 2025

Jeff Wall
(Ces quatres photocopies…), 1988
Xerox copies

March 6th, 2025

Pierre Bal-Blanc
Employment contract (After Félix González- Torres), 1992
Video, photos

March 7th, 2025

La Monnaie Vivante – Living Currency, 2006
Photos by Giasco Bertoli
Documents, flyer, and poster by Vier5

March 8th, 2025

Tomorrow I go to MoMA, 2012
Video documentation

March 12th, 2025

The Jeff Wall Collection (On Sale)
Reproduction of
Mutlu Çerkez
Untitled 22092 (12 March 2025), 2025
Gouache on paper, synthetic polymer paint on paper, oil on canvas board 28.2 x 46 cm
From the series Notes for an Unwritten Opera 1992

March 13th, 2025

Yo cometi un happening – I committed an happening, 2015
Video, documents

March 14th, 2025

A Jeff Wall Production by Marianne Maric
Study for Endymion, 2024
Photographic print

March 15th, 2025

“I GOT UP” Score (On Kawara) 2021 June 5, 20.. at 10:49 am
June 12, 20.. at 9:50 am
June 19, 20.. at 10:51 am
June 26, 20.. at 9:22 am
Score and original On Kawara Postcards

On Kawara
I GOT UP, 1968
Stamped ink on postcard
9 x 14 cm
June 5, 1968, 10:49 am to Dan Graham

On Kawara
I GOT UP, 1968
Stamped ink on postcard
9 x 14 cm
June 12, 1968, 9:50 am to Dan Graham

On Kawara
I GOT UP, 1968
Stamped ink on postcard
9 x 14 cm
June 19, 1968, 10:51 am to Dan Graham

On Kawara
I GOT UP, 1968
Stamped ink on postcard
9 x 14 cm
June 26, 1968, 9:22 am to Dan Graham

A Jeff Wall Production by Serapis Maritime
Faidonas’Gaze, 2021
Sublimation print on fabric, synthetic fill
200 x 145 cm

A Jeff Wall Production by Pierre Bal-Blanc
I got up at 10:51 am June 19, 2021 (Hugo Wheeler) Photos by Costas Caravetellis after Sophie Calle
6 color photographs, one text
Each photograph and text: 15 x 20 cm
Edition of 3 + 2 AP

A Jeff Wall Production by Lili Reynaud Deware
I GOT UP AT at 9:22 AM JUNE. 26. 2023 (PARIS)
ROOM 602, Hotel Bellevue rue de Turbigo, Paris
HD video
10 minutes

Film screening (offsite)
I GOT UP AT 8:59 AM OCT. 19 2021
A Feature Film by Pierre Bal-Blanc. Adapted from I GOT UP AT 8:59 AM OCT. 19 1968 by On Kawara addressed to Dan Graham. With Thomas Ducasse, in the role of Police Officer on the morning of October 19, 1961 in Paris. Translation of Original Script Teddy Coste. Dubbing Priyank Morjaria. Cinematography Fabio Balducci. Editing Pierre Bal-Blanc. Sound Design Aris Athanasopoulos. Set Design Serapis Maritime. Color Grading Ilias Panaritis. Post-production Vanessa Zeri. Production Assistant Aristotelis Mochloulis. Set Photography Marianne Maric, Mauricio Guillén. The production was shot at gb agency Paris on October 19, 2021.
Video/ Color/ Sound Dolby
56 minutes

The Jeff Wall Collection (On Sale) Reproduction of
Mutlu Çerkez
Untitled 22095 (15 March 2025), 2025 Oil on canvas board
30.6 x 35.8 cm
From the series Notes for an Unwritten Opera 1992

The Jeff Wall Collection (On Sale) Reproduction of
Mutlu Çerkez
Untitled 22108 (28 March 2025), 1992, 2025 Oil on canvas
53 x 45 cm
From the series Notes for an Unwritten Opera 1992

March 19th, 2025

The Jeff Wall Collection (On Sale)
Reproduction of
Mutlu Çerkez
Untitled 22099 (19 March 2025)
Oil on canvas
37 x 25 cm
From the series Notes for an Unwritten Opera 1992

The Jeff Wall Collection (On Sale)
Reproduction of
Mutlu Çerkez
Untitled 22101 (21 March 2025), 1992, 2025
Oil on canvas
37 x 25 cm
From the series Notes for an Unwritten Opera 1992

Cours Paul Ricard, 2021
Street sign

Cours Paul Ricard, 2021
Video
4 minutes

March 20th, 2025

All Criteria, This Position, Any Moment, (Victor Burgin – Cally Spooner), 2020
Score, original Victor Burgin artworks, film

Victor Burgin
All Criteria 2/50, 1970
Typewritten document

Victor Burgin
This Position 2/50, 1970
Typewritten document

Victor Burgin
Any Moment 2/50, 1970
Typewritten document

March 21st, 2025

The Jeff Wall Collection (On Sale)
Reproduction of
Mutlu Çerkez
Untitled 22101 (21 March 2025), 2025
Oil on canvas board
25.5 x 40.9 cm
From the series Notes for an Unwritten Opera 1992

Allan Sekula
Insert (Bloc Notes 16)
Allan Sekula Meat Mass and Box Car Framed material

March 22nd, 2025

The Jeff Wall Collection (On Sale)
Reproduction of
Mutlu Çerkez
Untitled 22102 (22 March 2025), 2025
Oil on canvas board
19 x 45.7 cm
From the series Notes for an Unwritten Opera 1992

Collective Exhibition for a Single Body – The documenta 14 Score, 2017 Score, printed matter

Lois Weinberger
Untitled (holding earth), 2010 Photographic print
43 x 61 cm (framed)
Edition 2 of 5

Anna Halprin
Gift from The Sea Ranch, 1979 Signed driftwood

March 26th, 2025

Iconography for a text to come, 2024
Deborah Imogen Beer (1950/1994) Pasolini
Two set photographs from Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

March 27th, 2025

The Jeff Wall Collection (On Sale)
Reproduction of
Mutlu Çerkez
Untitled 22107 (27 March 2025), 2025
Oil on canvas board
35.8 x 30.6 cm
From the series Notes for an Unwritten Opera 1992

Au-delà de cette limite (Broodthaers), 1971, 2025 Photograph by Maria Gilissen

March 28th, 2025

The Jeff Wall Collection (On Sale)
Reproduction of
Mutlu Çerkez
Untitled 22108 (28 March 2025), 2025
Oil on canvas board
35.7 x 30.5 cm
From the series Notes for an Unwritten Opera 1992

La luce di terra, 2022 Video and floor lamp

March 29th, 2025

The Jeff Wall Collection (On Sale)
Reproduction of
Mutlu Çerkez
Untitled 22109 (29 March 2025), 2025
Oil on canvas board
30.7 x 40.8 cm
From the series Notes for an Unwritten Opera 1992

Jeff Wall Production
One is not a painter, 2025 Video