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.
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LOT 45:
Paul Chan
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Paul Chan: The Libertine Reader (für Parkett 88)
CHAN, PAUL
1973 HONGKONG
Title: The Libertine Reader (for Parkett 88).
Date: 2011.
Technique: Silkscreen on book spine mounted on wooden plate.
Measurement: 63,5 x 42 x 1,9cm.
Notation: Signed and numbered on enclosed certificate.
Publisher: Parkett-Verlag, Zurich (publisher).
Number: 1/35.
Condition:
The work is in very good condition.
With enclosed certificate. With Parkett magazine.
"When the question of art's political potential is raised in contemporary art discourse (and sometimes it seems nothing else is), the main tendency since at least the 1990s has been to question the distinction between its two terms: to 'blur the line between art and life, ' as the phrase goes. S political activist and an artist, Paul Chan might be the exemplary figure for the great blur - if he didn't spend all his time resisting it. As he puts it in an interview with George Baker, 'the desire to bridge what we call art and politics is in fact a fear of both.'"
Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Parkett no. 88, 2011.
Artikel zu Werk und Künstler aus Parkett Edition Nr. 88.
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