Parkett
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Parkett was an international magazine specializing in art.[1] The magazine ceased publication in Summer 2017 with its 100th issue and now continues online as a time capsule and archive with some 270 in-depth artists portraits, artists documents, newsletters and more at www.parkettart.com.[2]
Publication
Published three times per year in English and German by its publishing house in Zurich, Switzerland, with an additional editorial office in New York City, Parkett had a circulation of 12,000 and was read by some 30,000 readers in 40 countries, one third of them in North America.[3]
History
Founded in the early 1980s with the idea of fostering an open dialogue between the artistic communities of Europe and America, Parkett is based in Zurich, with an office also in New York City.[1] The magazine's goal was to actively and directly collaborate with important international artists whose oeuvre was explored in several essays by leading writers and critics in both German and English.[1] Each artist featured also created a special signed and numbered work exclusive to Parkett.
By 2010, Parkett had published more than 80 volumes with some 180 monographs and over 1500 in-depth texts making it one of the most comprehensive libraries on contemporary art worldwide.[1] Critics, curators, art historians, and other commentators join in the conversation contained within its pages. Many write on the collaborating artists; some write opinions under a variety of topic headings that recur issue to issue; others write on additional artists and ideas. The result is more of a curated event-between-covers than a typical art magazine with reviews and news items.[4]
To celebrate the fortieth issue of Parkett, in June 1994 the editors presented a special thematic issue asking what beauty will look like after it reemerges from Postmodernism? And how, when contemporary life demands so many different things from contemporary art, do we strike a balance between history and presence, politics and humor? Taking the children's game of Snakes and Ladders as a guiding metaphor, the gala issue offered six mini-collaborations: Holland Cotter on
In 2001, on the occasion of Parkett's retrospective, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City staged the exhibition, "Parkett - 20 Years of Artists' Collaborations", replete with a catalog raisonné of all artists' editions. A book from the Kunsthaus Zurich exhibition in 2004 features unpublished artists sketches, documents, interviews, photographs and statements on the history and the making of Parkett since 1984. Exhibitions of Parkett's artists' editions have also been held in Cologne (Ludwig Museum), Frankfurt (Portikus), Copenhagen (Louisiana Museum), Tokyo (Hillside Forum), Geneva (Centre d'Art Contemporain), London (Whitechapel Art Gallery), and Zurich (Kunsthaus).[3]
Featured artists
In addition to the collaboration with these artists, Parkett featured various articles on contemporary art within a series of playful rubrics such as Cumulus, Insert, or Les Infos du Paradis.
Notable contributors
Carter Ratcliff, Jane Weinstock, Lisa Liebman, Ida Panacelli, Bice Curiger, Roselee Goldberg, Peter Schjeldahl, Brian Wallis, Donald Kuspit, Louise Neri, John Yau, Lynne Cook, Dave Hickey, Thomas McEvilley, Jeanne Silverthorne, Nancy Princenthal,
Editor-in-chief and publisher
Since its inception, the editor-in-chief of Parkett was Bice Curiger, also director of Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles. The publisher was Dieter von Graffenried.
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Ocula (2 December 2020). "Parkett". ocula.com. Ocula. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ Brian Boucher (23 February 2017). "Parkett Ceases Print Magazine After 33 Years". Artnet. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ^ a b About us Archived 18 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Interactives - Exhibitions - 2001 - Collaborations with Parkett". MoMA. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
- ^ Parkett No. 40/41 Snakes & Ladders. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
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External links
- Parkett website and publication index: http://www.parkettart.com/
