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 205:
Gregor Schneider
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Gregor Schneider: The German Contribution (für Parkett 63)
SCHNEIDER, GREGOR
1969 Rheydt
Title: The German Contribution (for Parkett 63).
Date: 2001.
Technique: 2-parts. Each: C-print.
Depiction Size: 41,5 x 32cm.
Sheet Size: 23 x 17cm.
Notation: Dated, numbered, titled and inscribed. Additionally signed on frame rear pane.
Publisher: Parkett-Verlag, Zurich (publisher).
Number: 1/60.
Frame: Artist's frame.
Condition:
The work is in very good condition. Not examined out of the frame.
The photographs show rooms that Gregor Schneider used in the German Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia in 2001. The artist received the Golden Lion at the 49th Biennale for this work.
With Parkett magazine.
"With his own hands [Gregor Schneider] reproduces existing rooms in the same place and subsequently, for exhibition purposes, reconstructs these in another place. Thus, he takes over and affirms an existing building, constantly seeking to make a connection with what it is not, with an uncanny undertow that fundamentally questions the existential possibility of living, of finding refuge in a house. He contextualizes the house with itself in order to locate the other side of its meaning."
Ulrich Loock, Parkett no. 63, 2001.
Article on the work and artist from Parkett edition no. 63.
Explanations to the Catalogue
