In the work of Georg Baselitz, sculpture and painting represent two forms of what might be called "opinione contraria," to cite Vasari's term signifying the opposition and commitment involved in freeing expression and exposing the aggression of structure. Parkett 11 celebrates his work.

Parkett No. 11 Georg Baselitz (Parkett Art Magazine, No 11, 1986)

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“Gilbert & George consider themselves warriors “fighting for a total expression.” They want to invoke all our experiences, intellectual and physical, even the most dramatic, the most banal, the most shunned by social custom. Their daily struggle for artistic creative action becomes a metaphor of the unceasing desperate activity of man.” --Mario Codognato

Parkett No. 14 Gilbert & George (Parkett Series)

“The work of Mario Merz leaves the impression of a compulsive urge toward transcendence. On the one hand, he is himself a kind of Second Coming, considerably less glorious than was anticipated, bringing confirmation of another postponement in the offing, a third and fourth and fifth Coming. On the other hand, he is the last futurist left standing in the wake of a future that has exhausted itself in an orgy of big bangs." --Jeanne Silverthorne

Parkett No. 15 Mario Merz (Parkett Art Magazine, No 15, 1988)

Parkett No. 34 Ilya Kabakov, Richard Prince

Nonfiction:  academic journal on Art History

Parkett No. 36: Sophie Calle / Stephen Balkenhol Issue (English and German Edition)

CURIGER, Bice (editor) Sophie Calle, Stephen Balkenhol, Richmond Burton

Artwork by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Wolfgang Laib.

Parkett No. 39 Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Wolfgang Laib

To celebrate the fortieth issue of Parkett, the editors present a special thematic issue. When beauty reemerges from Postmodernism, what does it look like? 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, this gala issue offers six mini-collaborations: Holland Cotter on Francesco Clemente; Boris Groys on Peter Fischli and David Weiss; David Rimanelli and Max Weechsler on Gunther Förg; Gordon Burn on Damien Hirst; Joan Simon on Jenny Holzer; and Gilbert Lascault on Rebecca Horn. Also in this issue: Dave Hickey on magic, Vik Muniz on apparitions, Jeff Perrone on boards and borders, Roger Denson on nomadic critical theory, and much more.

Parkett No. 40/41 Snakes & Ladders

Boris Groys

Dave Hickey

Holland Cotter

David Rimanelli

G. Roger Denson

Bice Curiger

Joan SImon

Jeff Perrone

In this issue the idea of the object is exploded in the works of two artists with strikingly different yet subtly similar approaches to the legacies of Minimalism and Conceptualism. Since the 1960s, Lawrence Weiner has questioned artistic authority and originality eschewing images for an art “made” entirely of language. Winner of the prestigious Turner Prize in 1994, Rachel Whiteread relies on the imaginative associations of her audience, constructing a world where objects are described in terms of absences. Also in this issue, Vince Leo on Robert Frank; INSERT by Nan Goldin. Contributors include Simon Watney, Trevor Fairbrother, Lane Relya, Daniela Salvioni, Brook Adams, Neville Wakefield and more.

Parkett No. 42 Lawrence Weiner, Rachel Whiteread

Here, Parkett showcases the work of four artists whose work foregrounds the distance between the observer and the thing observed. The observer in question may be simultaneously the artist and the viewer, and the observations may concern the world, the society or the self--but in each case, these artists subvert the laws of objectivity versus subjectivity, conceptualism versus realism, the verbal versus the visual. Cultural nomads or archaeologists of information, Lothar Baumgarten's installations, language and other systems of categorization are turned inside out, revealing the anxieties such nomenclature is designed to suppress. For Tiravanija, however, the medium of exchange is not words but consumables, whose traces tell us who we are. In the epic everyday spaces of Andreas Gursky's photographic spaces, as much as in the extraterrestrial content of Vija Celmins' pictures, the universal and the mundane are held in taut suspension, resulting in images that remain simultaneously intimate and enigmatic. Other features of this special issue include Lynne Cooke on “Micromegas,” Alexandre Melo on peripheries, Jason Simon on Mark Dion and more.

Parkett No. 44 Vija Celmins, Andreas Gurskey, Rirkrit Tiravanija

A mordant humor--the kind which sometimes accompanies death or disaster--imbues the work of the artists assembled in Parkett's latest collaboration.

Parkett No. 46 Richard Artschwager, Cady Noland, Hiroshi Sugimoto

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