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 38:
Daniel Buren
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Daniel Buren: Unique Tablecloth with Laser-Cut Lace (für Parkett 66)
BUREN, DANIEL
1938 Boulogne-Billancourt
Title: Unique Tablecloth with Laser-Cut Lace (for Parkett 66).
Subtitle: Object to Be Situated on Table.
Date: 2002.
Technique: Two-layer tablecloth. Lower layer plain blue. Upper layer white with laser-cut design.
Depiction Size: White Layer: 180cm.
Sheet Size: 180cm. Blue Layer: 170cm.
Notation: Numbered and equipped with artist's stamp on enclosed certificate.
Publisher: Parkett-Verlag, Zurich (publisher).
Number: I/XXIV.
Condition:
In the blue cloth, a thread stands up in a small place and the knitted fabric is therefore minimally warped (approx. 1cm long). Otherwise very good condition.
Outside the edition of 78 copies numbered with Arabic numerals.
With enclosed certificate. With Parkett magazine.
The two layers are two separate covers which are laid over each other. The white layer has a sewn-in edition label with care instructions (100% polyester, washable at 40°). Each copy of the edition has a unique composition of colour and pattern and is intended as a usable tablecloth. One of 24 copies numbered with Roman numerals outside the edition of 78 copies numbered with Arabic numerals.
"Buren's work is rooted in the artist's initial search for ways to strip painting of illusionistic and expressive reference as per his decision in 1965 to reduce the pictorial content of his canvases to the repetition of mechanically printed, alternating white and colored vertical bands 8.7 centimeters in width painted white on its outer stripes. Grounding his works in the real without espousing the grandiose or impositional, he has constantly sought to express the idea of the unfettered nature of aesthetic experience that (as he has demonstrated) may be proffered to spectators in relation to the temporal and spatial reality of architecture and its institutional affiliations."
Anne Rorimer, Parkett no. 66, 2002.
article on work and artist from Parkett edition no. 66.
Explanations to the Catalogue
