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INTRODUCING PARKETT: A SMALL MUSEUM AND A LARGE LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Parkett is published in direct collaboration with important international artists, whose oeuvre is explored in several essays by leading writers and critics. Each artist also creates a special signed and numbered work exclusive to Parkett.
Up to now Parkett has published more than 80 volumes with some 180 monographs and over 1500 in-depth texts making it one of the most comprehensive libraries on contemporary art worldwide. At the same time the collection of all editions, prints, photographs, objects, and other works made by the artists especially for Parkett forms a unique document and small museum of the art of the past quarter of a century.
The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris has called Parkett one of the best art publications and invited the publication to a special exhibition in Paris. Subsequently, exhibitions of Parkett's artists' editions have been held in Cologne (Ludwig Museum), Frankfurt (Portikus), Copenhagen (Louisiana Museum), Tokyo (Hillside Forum), Geneva (Centre d'Art Contemporain), London (Whitechapel Art Gallery), Zurich (Kunsthaus) among other places. For more details about Parkett’s Museum exhibitions please go to the exhibitions page (click menu on top right of the page).
A catalog raisonné of all artists' editions has been published in 2001 on the occasion of Parkett's retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. "Parkett - 20 Years of Artists' Collaborations", the book from the Kunsthaus Zurich exhibition in 2004 features unpublished artists sketches, documents, interviews, photographs and statements on the history and the making of Parkett since 1984. Detailed information on all Parkett volumes and artists editions is featured on the website.
The list of collaborating artists includes: Laurie Anderson, Richard Artschwager, Georg Baselitz, Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Gilbert & George, Rebecca Horn, Ilya Kabakov, Jeff Koons, Brice Marden, Bruce Nauman, Meret Oppenheim, Raymond Pettibon, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, and many more.
In addition to this central collaboration element, Parkett features various articles on contemporary art within a series of playful rubrics such as Cumulus, Insert, or Les Infos du Paradis.
Parkett is published three times per year in English and German by its eponymous publishing house in Zurich with an additional editorial office in New York. With a circulation of 12,000 copies the publication is read by some 30,000 readers in 40 countries, one third of them in North America. Parkett is available by subscription and is on sale in more than 500 art book shops around the world. Editors are Bice Curiger (editor-in-chief), Bettina Funcke (editor USA) and Jacqueline Burckhardt (senior editor). Publisher is Dieter von Graffenried.
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