Parkett's explorations of important international contemporary artists by acclaimed writers and critics continues in Volume 77, which features Trisha Donnelly, Carsten H�ller and Rudolf Stingel. Donnelly's videos, sound pieces, photographs and pencil drawings all possess a cunning Jasper Johnsian precision, blending whimsy, restraint and a certain preternatural gamesmanship, while her live interventions, rarely witnessed by others in real life, have a way of spreading into culture like folklore. Carsten H�ller was a scientist prior to becoming an artist, and his work reflects the duality of both fields. His optical devices, flying machines, flashing lights and happiness pills all possess the jury-rigged inventiveness of laboratory experiments: body invaders that latch onto the user's senses, as one Parkett author puts it. Rudolf Stingel, speaking of his recent photo-realistic self-portraits--somber, tonal ruminations in oil--claims that the only activity is self-doubt. Writing on Stingel's past serial silver canvases, Francesco Bonami compares their cool blankness to cottage paintings in their ambush of aura over the artificiality of the picturesque. Writers in this issue include Bonami, Bruce Hainley, J�rg Heiser, Caoimh�n Mac Giolla L�ith, Chantal Mouffe, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Christian Rattemeyer, Beatrix Ruf, Ali Subotnick and Tirdad Zolghadr.
Language
English
Pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Parkett Verlag
Release
September 01, 2006
ISBN
3907582373
ISBN 13
9783907582374
Parkett No. 77 Trisha Donnelly, Carsten Holler, Rudolf Stingel
Parkett's explorations of important international contemporary artists by acclaimed writers and critics continues in Volume 77, which features Trisha Donnelly, Carsten H�ller and Rudolf Stingel. Donnelly's videos, sound pieces, photographs and pencil drawings all possess a cunning Jasper Johnsian precision, blending whimsy, restraint and a certain preternatural gamesmanship, while her live interventions, rarely witnessed by others in real life, have a way of spreading into culture like folklore. Carsten H�ller was a scientist prior to becoming an artist, and his work reflects the duality of both fields. His optical devices, flying machines, flashing lights and happiness pills all possess the jury-rigged inventiveness of laboratory experiments: body invaders that latch onto the user's senses, as one Parkett author puts it. Rudolf Stingel, speaking of his recent photo-realistic self-portraits--somber, tonal ruminations in oil--claims that the only activity is self-doubt. Writing on Stingel's past serial silver canvases, Francesco Bonami compares their cool blankness to cottage paintings in their ambush of aura over the artificiality of the picturesque. Writers in this issue include Bonami, Bruce Hainley, J�rg Heiser, Caoimh�n Mac Giolla L�ith, Chantal Mouffe, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Christian Rattemeyer, Beatrix Ruf, Ali Subotnick and Tirdad Zolghadr.