Auction: 31st October 2023
Preview: 27.-29. October 2023
Once again Van Ham surprises with an extraordinary special sale: on 31 October 2023 the Cologne auction house will be offering the entire series of 270 works which were editioned by the international Swiss art magazine Parkett between 1984 and 2017. This sale represents the very first auction of all Parkett editions on the international market. For those interested in art this is a unique opportunity to acquire works by the most important contemporary artists, with estimated prices ranging from 200 to 500,000 euros. The museum quality of the legendary Parkett editions has already been recognised at exhibition venues of international renown, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan.
Parkett published a total of 270 artist portraits consisting of three to five texts each by respected authors. Every one of the participating artists was actively involved in the design of the publication – from the selection of the images to the page layout – and in addition created an artwork in the form of an edition. The results were prints, sculptures, installations, media works, paintings and drawings. The list of the 234 artists in total (some of whom are represented several times) reads like a Who’s Who of contemporary art: they range from Mark Bradford, Elizabeth Peyton, Rashid Johnson, Julie Mehretu and Francis Alÿs to Katharina Fritsch, Damien Hirst, Marlene Dumas and Anish Kapoor, and through to Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama and Gerhard Richter, to name just a few.
|
LOT 8:
Francis Alys
|
Francis Alys: Ghetto Collector (für Parkett 69)
ALYS, FRANCIS
1959 ANTWERPEN
Title: Ghetto Collector (for Parkett 69).
Date: 2003.
Technique: Tin, magnets, plastic cord and rubber wheels.
Measurement: 15 x 24 x 14cm.
Notation: Signed, dated and numbered on the inside of the door.
Publisher: Parkett-Verlag, Zurich (publisher).
Number: II/L.
Condition:
The work is in very good condition.
Outside of the edition of 99 arabic numbered copies. With Parkett magazine.
"Fragments of refuse, abandoned and divorced from their original purpose are galvanised into action. Like a small artillery of children's pull-toys, or dispirited trash puppies, you can imagine these 'ghetto collectors', as the artist calls them, trailing through urban backlots, gathering debris beneath their already tired wheels. Alys looks at growth and change in society, particularly in urban environments. Here he tracks our insatiable consumption while on a continual path of waste and refuse. This is ironically packaged in the form of a harmless plaything."
Robert Storr, Parkett no. 69, 2003.
Article on the work and artist from Parkett edition no. 69.
Explanations to the Catalogue
