20 years of unparalleled exploration and discussion of important
international contemporary artists continue in Parkett No. 74, which
features collaborations by Bernard Frize, Katharina Grosse and Richard
Serra. Frize's most recent paintings are created by teams of performers
following intricate scores for the intertwining and knotting of ribbons
of color, to dazzling effect. Grosse has also quietly been furthering
the sort of formalism thought to have been exhausted by Abstract
Expressionist and Color Field painting in the 1960s and 1970s: she takes
to exhibition spaces with spray guns and goggles, jetting paint directly
onto interior architectural elements to install kaleidoscopic
dreamscapes of color-fueled intuition. Serra has recently put in a
long-term installation at the Guggenheim Bilbao, and made an enigmatic
work in stone on a remote Icelandic island. The issue includes texts on
Serra by Hal Foster, Kate Nesin, Theodora Vischer and Kenneth Baker, and
similarly bountiful files on Frize and Grosse, with work from writers
including Jordan Kantor, Gregory Volk, Paul Mattick, and Hans Ulrich
Obrist. Among the issue's freestanding pieces, Lytle Shaw writes on
Jockum Nordström; Louise Neri on Trisha Brown and Lawrence Rinder on the
San Francisco based "Mission School." Carsten Nicolai provides the spine
design.
