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Mark Grotjahn - Mark Grotjahn: Spinner Winner (für Parkett 80). GROTJAHN, MARK 1968 PASADENA/CALIFORNIA Title: Spinner Winner (for Parkett 80). Date: 2007. Technique: Hand painted coin from 18-carat gold in Plexiglass box. Measurement: Coin: 4 x 4 x 0,3cm. Notation: Signed, numbered and inscribed (stamped) verso. Publisher: Parkett-Verlag, Zurich (publisher). Number: 6/13. Condition: Coin and plexiglass box in very good condition. Each copy from this edition is painted with a different motif and thus unique. With Parkett magazine. ”For me, the recent paintings of Mark Grotjahn retain and renew the tradition and potential of abstract painting. They have an intense physicality. The paint is thickly applied, luscious; the process of application, immediate, apparent; but the strokes are timelessly frozen. Their thousand edges bristle, catching light like a fractured prism, but with only white light. It is difficult for the eye to find a stopping point. With the slightest shift of the body, of the gaze, the glistening sheen of light instantaneously tips, slides, careens across the surface of the canvas, offset by deep, equally unstable, almost black, contrasts. Only near the center of the canvas, in the area where the two sets of points nearly meet, does the whitish gleam of light remain constant. ” Garry Garrels, Parkett no. 80, 2007. Article on work and artist from Parkett edition no. 80 . Explanations to the Catalogue