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 24:
John Bock
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John Bock: Geometrischer Ort der 2 Mio. (für Parkett 67)
BOCK, JOHN
1965 GRIBBOHM
Title: Geometrischer Ort der 2 Mio. (for Parkett 67).
Date: 2003.
Technique: Knitted fabric, sequins, straw, silicone, rabbit droppings and migraine pill.
Measurement: Ca. 47 x 28 x 14cm.
Notation: Monogrammed and numbered (inside on the strap).
Publisher: Parkett-Verlag, Zurich (publisher).
Number: 24/60, XX.
Condition:
The multiple is in very good condition.
Each copy of the edition is unique. The full title is: "Geometrischer Ort der 2 Mio. $ Knödelknickerbockermigränehitshitbitssou fflévisage, drin strohmulmige Isoquante touchiert goldene Bilanzregel + Insolvenzsnob"."
With Parkett magazine.
"It is neither performance nor clearly installation, neither sculpture nor solely slapstick happening, neither film nor any known form of theater. Bock's work is most likely a turbulent mixture of all of these - he creates exuberant, extroverted, passionate, and often forceful but always humorous and highly absurd pieces of art. The range of Bock's artistic means is remarkably diverse; in fact, it is impossible to pin him down at all, since so much is ambiguous, cryptic, obscure, enigmatic, and mysterious. - No matter how exhausted, how worn out our world may appear, the artist confronts us with an unstoppable avalanche of visual impressions and artistic stunts, as if everything still remains to be said, seen, or heard."
Jens Hoffmann, Parkett no. 67, 2003.
Article on the work and artist from Parkett edition no. 67.
Explanations to the Catalogue
