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 212:
Roman Signer
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Roman Signer: Fireman's Glove with Photograph (für Parkett 45)
SIGNER, ROMAN
1938 APPENZELL/SWITZERLAND
Title: Fireman's Glove with Photograph (for Parkett 45).
Date: 1995.
Technique: Fireproof glove and photography on Kodak Professional.
Measurement: Glove: 34 x 19 x 4cm. Photography: 19,5 x 13cm.
Notation: Signed on the inside of the glove. As well as signed and numbered on the edition label.
Publisher: Parkett-Verlag, Zurich (publisher).
Number: 1/80.
Condition:
The glove and photography are in very good condition.
The photography shows a film still from a video by Aleksandra Signer. The artist can be seen with the glove.
With Parkett magazine.
"Action and sculpture, dynamics and stasis in Roman Signer's oeuvre do not oppose each other but are rather different states of the same structure. It is a structure that displays the potential of future, energetic change; it is transformation as transient shape; it is detritus as traces of past events. The sculptural form in Signer's oeuvre, the static object in space is expanded - liquefied, as it were - to include the dimension of time."
Konrad Bitterli, Parkett no. 45, 1995.
Article on the work and artist from Parkett edition no. 45.
Explanations to the Catalogue
