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 98:
Mark Grotjahn
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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

