Mark Grotjahn | “Spinner Winner“, 2007 | (for Parkett 80)
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Parkett Vol. 80
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“For me, the recent paintings of Mark Grotjahn retain and renew the tradition and potential of abstract painting. They have an intense physicality. The paint is thickly applied, luscious; the process of application, immediate, apparent; but the strokes are timelessly frozen. Their thousand edges bristle, catching light like a fractured prism, but with only white light. It is difficult for the eye to find a stopping point. With the slightest shift of the body, of the gaze, the glistening sheen of light instantaneously tips, slides, careens across the surface of the canvas, offset by deep, equally unstable, almost black, contrasts. Only near the center of the canvas, in the area where the two sets of points nearly meet, does the whitish gleam of light remain constant. ”
Garry Garrels, Parkett No. 80, 2007
“Spinner Winner“, 2007 (for Parkett 80)
Hand-painted coin in gold and silver,
1 1/2 x 1/8” (3,9 x 0,3 cm),
each unique, Plexiglas case,
Ed. 13/VII in 18 carat gold, engraved and numbered on reverse,
Ed. 30/X in sterling silver, engraved and numbered on reverse
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Read a Parkett text on Mark Grotjahn
Parkett Vol. 80
Quote from Parkett
“For me, the recent paintings of Mark Grotjahn retain and renew the tradition and potential of abstract painting. They have an intense physicality. The paint is thickly applied, luscious; the process of application, immediate, apparent; but the strokes are timelessly frozen. Their thousand edges bristle, catching light like a fractured prism, but with only white light. It is difficult for the eye to find a stopping point. With the slightest shift of the body, of the gaze, the glistening sheen of light instantaneously tips, slides, careens across the surface of the canvas, offset by deep, equally unstable, almost black, contrasts. Only near the center of the canvas, in the area where the two sets of points nearly meet, does the whitish gleam of light remain constant. ”
Garry Garrels, Parkett No. 80, 2007
“Spinner Winner“, 2007 (for Parkett 80)
Hand-painted coin in gold and silver,
1 1/2 x 1/8” (3,9 x 0,3 cm),
each unique, Plexiglas case,
Ed. 13/VII in 18 carat gold, engraved and numbered on reverse,
Ed. 30/X in sterling silver, engraved and numbered on reverse
Complimentary Shipping.
Read a Parkett text on Mark Grotjahn
Parkett Vol. 80
Quote from Parkett
“For me, the recent paintings of Mark Grotjahn retain and renew the tradition and potential of abstract painting. They have an intense physicality. The paint is thickly applied, luscious; the process of application, immediate, apparent; but the strokes are timelessly frozen. Their thousand edges bristle, catching light like a fractured prism, but with only white light. It is difficult for the eye to find a stopping point. With the slightest shift of the body, of the gaze, the glistening sheen of light instantaneously tips, slides, careens across the surface of the canvas, offset by deep, equally unstable, almost black, contrasts. Only near the center of the canvas, in the area where the two sets of points nearly meet, does the whitish gleam of light remain constant. ”
Garry Garrels, Parkett No. 80, 2007
“Spinner Winner“, 2007 (for Parkett 80)
Hand-painted coin in gold and silver,
1 1/2 x 1/8” (3,9 x 0,3 cm),
each unique, Plexiglas case,
Ed. 13/VII in 18 carat gold, engraved and numbered on reverse,
Ed. 30/X in sterling silver, engraved and numbered on reverse
Complimentary Shipping.
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Artist Document
Mark Grotjahn discusses in this note possible layouts for the reproduction of his unique, painted silver and gold coins in Parkett 80.
Parkett Text
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Parkett Cover
Mark Grotjahn’s work on the cover of Parkett no. 80
