Parkett Vol. 45 - 1995 | Matthew Barney, Sarah Lucas, Roman Signer

Browse Selected Texts and more on the Collaboration Artists

Artist Insert

Editorial

Explosive One of the collaboration artists in this issue, Roman Signer, has an affection for explosives. Motivated by a delight in observing physical processes, Signer is both dramaturge and di¬rector of the theater of natural forces. He unleashes the hidden potential of materials and, in images of anarchistic whimsy, he meditates on the danger and poetry of ordinarily latent processes which surface only as accidents or as functionally oriented aspects of our quotidian economy.

Equally “explosive” are the approaches of the other two collaboration artists, Sarah Lucas and Matthew Barney. They also engineer states of being, subtly operating in liberated, or yet to be liberated, territories.

Both Barney and Signer emphasize the strong sculptural intent of their work. Actions, films, and photographs circumscribe objects that underscore the transience of things. Matthew Barney lures our gaze towards physiological processes in which cells and organs, flaring up in rococo agitation, are transmuted into figures of uniquely sexual beauty. Before our very eyes, Sarah Lucas blows up the discreet social and behavioral structures that govern our civilized lives. The specific brand of humor which inhabits her art results from rubbing up against the “pure air” that prevails in an art world unaccustomed to deal¬ing in certain “vulgarities.” This issue of Parkett is an invitation to journey through images of wild and audacious beauty, enhanced by the delicate commentary of dynamic loops and flourishes of Elliott Puckette’s Insert.

Table of Content

William Forsythe, Where Balance is Lost and the Unfinished Begins by Heidi Gilpin

Geoff Lowe and Tower Hill by Robyn McKenzie

Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney’s Gonadotrophic Cavalcade by Norman Bryson
Mannerist Variations on Matthew Barney by Michel Onfray
Matthew Barney and Beyond by Keith Seward
Matthew Barney 95 : Suspension, Secretion, Secret by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

Sarah Lucas
She Gives as Good as She Gets by Jerry Saltz
Where Does it All End by Jan van Adrichem
The Fine Line Between This and That by Collier Schorr
Bollocks by Carl Freedman

Roman Signer
Roman Signer: Prometheus’s Delay by Jean-Yves Jouannais
Roman Signer’s Sculptural Events by Konrad Bitterli
Sculptural Labaratory Experiments by Christoph Doswald
Rupture or Continuity by Pia Viewing
Action With a Fuse : Modifying the Denotation of Detonation by Max Wechsler
Re : Learning Signer by Colin Deland

Elliott Puckette, Insert

It’s Not Just an Image by Michael Tarantino

Looking Homeward, Angel (You Can’t Go Home Again): Some Nomadic Artworks of The Post-Soviet Era, Cumulus from Europe by Thomas McEvilley

Nature’s Mosh Pit : Fear and Proximity in the Discovery Channel, Cumulus from America by Neville Wakefield