Parkett 78 features the artists Ernesto Neto, Olaf Nicolai and Rebecca
Warren. Neto's drooping, opaque lycra installations envelop the viewer
in a fog of fabric, a cushion for the gaze, their milky skins leaving
children ecstatic and adults in a Fredric Jamesonian "Hyperspace." Olaf
Nicolai's concept-driven art, like much of the avant-garde work of the
last half-century, remains set on integrating art with daily life. We
experience this "blurring" in his randomly arranged pre-fabricated
Pantone colors, ornamental stones taken from a 1960s Dresden shopping
mall and wall text reading, "A short catalogue of things that you think
you want..." Rebecca Warren makes vulgar, lumpy plasticine figures that
show the influence of Giacometti and R. Crumb alike. As Neal Brown
writes, her figures are, "fingered and improperly squeezed into
something that is
compulsively-chaotic-masturbatory-fat-ugly-disfigured-repressed-incontinent-excretory-bestial-bulimic..."
The issue also features Erwin Wurm, Andro Wekua and Vito Acconci, with
texts by Yuko Hasegawa, Paulo Herkenhoff, Charles Esche, Vincent Pécoil,
Catherine Lampert, Marjorie Perloff and Kate Fowle, among others.