Artist Document
In this sketch Matthew Ritchie lays out the page flow of his Insert for Parkett 54. The next photo shows an installation view of Ritchie's wall work "The Bad Need" at Parkett's exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich (with Marlene Dumas' work to the right).
Artists’ Contribution to Parkett 100/101
“Perhaps Parkett could only ever have been Swiss, a treaty signed between rivals who become friends, a layover at an airport bar that somehow turned into an all night session at a leather club, that endless dinner party conversation you always wanted to have. At times a pleasure-garden, at others an exhibition, a plea, a call to riot and a call to prayer, at times, I have simply stopped really reading other art magazines for a while, realizing Parkett was enough. (I'm sure I'm not alone in that). The physical body will be missed, the faithful arrival of love letters to the art-world it so beautifully supported and documented.
But that it's analog, embodied span is ending, having reached the limits of it's messianic life on earth, is surely no co-incidence. Parkett always seemed to be one step ahead of the game and it's metousiosis was probably inevitable. We are all partially digital now, in ways that were both foreseeable and unforeseeable, we are all signal and noise, our corrupted data trails and incorruptible souls diagrammed across the ever vaster spaces of the very small, the micro-nano-bio-quantum frontier of the soon-to-be possible. By it's very nature, convivial and challenging, Parkett will join that commingling without dissolving, the essential host of all tomorrow's parties.
I will miss you, but you already haunt the future.”
-Matthew Ritchie
Parkett Text
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Artist Insert
Matthew Ritchie’s Insert for Parkett no. 54
Artist Video
In this short video excerpt Matthew Ritchie talks about some aspects of his art.