Parkett Vol. 67 features John Bock (Germany), Peter Doig (Great Britain) and Fred Tomaselli (United States of America). John Bock’s hypnotic and clownish lectures—his signature artistic medium—mix language, social theory, dramatic elements, history and fairy tales, among other things. He performs on stage-like structures made from household furniture and multi-level wooden platforms while constructing handmade sculptures out of clothing, household appliances and other common materials. Contributing writers on Bock are independent curator Jens Hoffmann, Daniel Birnbaum, director of Portikus in Frankfurt, and art critic Jan Avgikos. Peter Doig’s paintings are at once romantic and nostalgic. With a vaguely impressionistic veil, he turns representational imagery taken from photographs into dream-like abstractions. For Doig authors include art historian Paul Bonaventura, former artistic director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Rudi Fuchs and Kunsthalle Zurich director Beatrix Ruf. Fred Tomaselli makes paintings that incorporate resin, photo-collage, pills, hallucinogenic plants and medicinal herbs in abstract compositions, figurative scenes and fictive landscapes. His multi-layered works (literally and metaphorically) map out the tension between control and chaos: civilization and nature, nature and culture. Dan Cameron, curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and curator of the next Istanbul Biennial, writes on Tomaselli, as well as writer Daniel Pinchbeck and Art Institute of Chicago curator James Rondeau. Also in this issue are Sibylle Omlin on Hanne Darboven, Troy Selvaratnam on Simon Starling, Hartmut Báhme on Wang Du, an insert by Canadian artist Marcel Dzama and a new spine designed by Fiona
Table of Content
The Starling Variations by Troy Selvaratnam
John Bock
Ars Combinatoria by Jens Hoffmann
Rope Tricks by Daniel Birnbaum
Bock-Ness Monster by Jan Avgikos
Peter Doig
Peter Doig – A Partial Record by Paul Bonaventura
Contemporary Fragility by Rudi Fuchs
Peter Doig’s Now by Beatrix Ruf
Fred Tomaselli
Through a Window Darkly by Dan Cameron
Transcendence Is Pop by James Rondeau
Tomaselli’s Postmodern Gnosticism by Daniel Pinchbeck
Marcel Dzama, Insert
My Work Ends in Music – Hanne Darboven by Sibylle Omlin
The Invention of the Schaulager by Theodora Vischer & Jacques Herzog
Wang Fu’s Cycle Prima Materia/Riots, Les Infos du Paradis by Hartmut Böhme
Notes on Renewed Appropriation Appropriationisms, Cumulus from America by Lauri Firstenberg
Mimetic Moments, Cumulus from Europe by Rita Kersting
Underground, Underworld, Understanding, Colin De Land, 1955 – 2003 by Fracesco Bonami
Autoreroticism by Daniele Muscionico