Parkett Vol. 44 - 1995 | Vija Celmins, Andreas Gursky, Rirkrit Tiravanija

Editorial

DISTANCE The difference is conspicuous: Parkett has changed. We are looking forward to the future because the changes—only three issues a year, but more voluminous and with a sewn binding, instead of the previous four in an adhesive binding—offer a challenging opportunity to expand the playing potential of our instrument, Parkett. The extra month between issues corresponds to the proportional increase in the size; the additional pages (the new binding will make for easier reading and a more durable publication) allow us to explore new forms in which to juxtapose our collaboration artists.

For instance, the present issue. The artists who have worked with us in creating this volume could not be more divergent and yet they share an underlying motif: distance and proximity. It is intrinsic to the number "three" that juxtapositions follow different ave¬nues of interaction than in the paired combinations of previous Parkett collaborations.

Celmins, Gursky, Tiravanija—in alphabetical and, incidentally, chronological order—share a certain slowness of pace in their pursuit of extremely heterogeneous interests. A look at their methods reveals the youngest, Rirkrit Tiravanija, to be the fastest in appealing to slowness. The motif of distance and proximity is related to the perception of the world, and in the present case, to drawing the world into the realm of art. While Vija Celmins measures distances whose point of departure is the reality of the picture, Andreas Gursky's painterly gaze through the camera lens seeks out entirely new angles in which he explores the uncharted territory between collective assumptions on art and the unconventional places he discovers on our planet. And Rirkrit Tiravanija's quotidian interventions such as his cooking events in galleries and museums become—by the very act of being placed in the art context—engaging indications of their basically explosive impact. The Insert is by Hans Danuser.

Table of Content

Marie José Burki : Le tremblement de l’être by Daniel Kurjakovic

Peter Hujar by Nan Goldin

Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins: Material Fictions by Nancy Princenthal
Night, Sleep, Death, and the Stars by Jim Lewis
Vija Celmins, A Conversation with Jeanne Silverthorne
Vija Celmins’ Play of Imitation by Richard Shiff

Andreas Gursky
On the Melancholy of Vantage Points by Jean-Pierre Criqui
Andreas Gursky, Painter of New Theaters of Action by Jacqueline Burckhardt
Brasilia, Vanishing Points by Neville Wakefield
How Familiar is it? by Collier Schorr

Rirkrit Tiravanija
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner by Alexandre Melo
Forget About the Ball and Get on with the Game by Liam Gillick & Rirkrit Tiravanija
En route by Richard Flood & Rochelle Steiner

Hans Danuser, Insert

Micromegas by Lynne Cooke

The Trap Slams Shut: Andreas Slominski by Noemi Smolik

Jean Painlevé and Mark Dion by Jason Simon

A Wordscape. On Mark Luyten by Luk Lambrecht

Les Infos du Paradis by Liam Gillick and Douglas Gordon

Transoceanexpress, Cumulus from Europe by Alexandre Melo

Sense and Sentimentality, Cumulus from America by David Deitcher