Special Edition Projects
“Commissioned by Parkett, the most important artists of our time have created editions that represent the essence of their art or reveal an unexpected dimension. The works cover every possible medium including painting, photographs, drawings, prints, sculptures, videos, DVDs,and sound pieces.”
Iwona Blazwick, Director, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Selected and special unique groups of works and anniversary editions.
Read a Parkett Text on Richard Artschwager
Parkett Vol. 46
This group includes all five works made by Richard Artschwager for Parkett 46. Each wooden object was made in an edition of 12. This is the only group of all five wooden crates. Each crate, though different in size, has the same volume of 1000 cubic inches. Plywood and pine with steel hardware, signed and numbered (see also artist’s sketch below). For more details please contact Parkett.
Quote from Parkett
“What is American about Artschwager’s objects goes beyond analogy—and there is more to it than the aggressive way they display their surface textures. Whether Formica or fiberboard, flowing grain or rigid pattern, their surfaces appear hermetic. Their sheer size further reinforces their presence as pure surface…They are like those organisms that have settled into extreme ecological niches, just below the boiling point of water, or in the anaerobic ocean depths. That is the kind of position that Artschwager’s objects occupy in the realm of art objects: By scale and texture, they have one foot in the world of objects and one foot in the world of art.”
Kurt W. Forster, Parkett No. 46, 1996
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Read a Parkett text on Katharina Fritsch
Parkett Vol. 87
Katharina Fritsch made this group of five figures and objects especially for Parkett’s 25th anniversary.
Quote from Parkett
"Their extraordinary autonomy from their surroundings strikes me as ultra-contemporary: rather than appearing like refugees from a recreation of a dance macabre or a German medieval fable, their true home seems closer to commercialized popular culture and to the disarming visual effects of film."
Jessica Morgan, Parkett 87
"2nd Still life, a special project for Parkett’s 25th anniversary", 2009-2010
5 hand-finished casts: skull, madonna, angel (St. Michael), shell, apple;
Zellan, high speed resin cast, color, 42 cm x 42 cm x 30 cm/16 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 11 7/8”, special 25 years edition for Parkett, Edition of 6/IV, signed and numbered certificate.
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Read a Parkett text on Urs Fischer
Parkett vol. 94
Group of three hand painted sculptures. Fiberglass-reinforced cast plaster, oil paint,
two-component acrylic adhesive, aluminum sheet, felt.
Ed. 7 & 3 APs, signed and numbered.
Sitzende
9 1/2 x 19 3/4 x 14 5/8” (24 x 50 x 37 cm), approx. 30 lbs (ca. 15 kg).
Stehende
25 x 49 x 14 1/2” (63,5 x 124,5 x 36,8 cm), approx. 125 lbs (ca. 58 kg).
With stainless-steel armature.
Liegende
11 3/8 x 24 3/4 x 14 5/8” (29 x 63 x 37 cm), approx. 40 lbs (ca. 20 kg).
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Read a Parkett text on Luc Tuymans
Parkett Vol. 60
Quote from Parkett
“Painting, like any memory, always comes too late and too soon. It mediates between the uncatchable moment of the past and a thought that springs from it. Luc Tuymans’s pictures show this mediating relationship by including elements of the medial source after which they were painted: the fleetingness and the light of photographic paper, film or video stills.”
Hans Rudolf Reust, Parkett No. 60, 2000
Additional Quote
“Luc Tuymans is a painter who uses photographs of emotionally or politically charged subjects … and transforms them into gray-toned, blurry, almost sinister copies of the original. By taking subjects that carry strong emotional associations, Tuymans is able to create facsimile copies of heavily loaded subjects such as “Silence”, his custom made shirt with a silkscreen image taken from an earlier painting, and transform them into otherworldly, ghostly remnants of their former selves.” -Artspace
"Silence", 1990-2000 (for Parkett 60)
Men’s cotton shirt with reproduction of the artist’s painting SILENCE, 1991,
shirt design by Walter van Beirendonck, 3 sizes (S, M, L)
This is the special, hand-stitched version of Luc Tuyman’s shirt project “Silence” for Parkett 60.
Hand-stiched version made by Trois-Quarte, Antwerp,
Ed. 20/XXV, signed and numbered certificate
Read a Parektt text on Franz West
Parkett Vol. 70
Quote from Parkett
“You can’t catch up with things that are evident-beautiful, right, definitely compelling (as their defining opposites). It’s a matter of being ahead of calculation or design or definition by exactly that distance that establishes their usefulness.”
Franz West, interview with Bice Curiger Parkett No. 70, 2004
2 x 20 Years of Parkett with complete collection of all 90 Parkett vol. (incl. 35 out-of-print vol.), 2004/2012
This bookshelf made by Franz West especially for Parkett comes with the much sought after complete collection of all 90 Parkett volumes (incl. 35 out-of-print volumes).
Bookshelf, reinforcing steel, plexiglas, four wheels, 47 1/4 x 23 5/8 x 11 13/16” (120 x 60 x 30 cm), Ed. 99/XX, signed and numbered certificate.
With the collection of all 101 Parkett volumes, with 270 Artists Portraits (incl. 35 out-of-print volumes).
Further details on the complete book collection
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For Parkett Vol. 15
Color offset lithograph on perforated paper, printed on both sides;
the full sheet unfolded 11 x 16 ¾ in. (27.9 x 42.5 cm)
Special edition of 200
Signed and numbered