Book Description
Presenting unique and in-depth collaborations and editions with leading international artists, "Parkett #60" features Chuck Close, Diana Thater, and Luc Tuymans, three artists from very different backgrounds whose works have all moved towards painting's basic elements of light and dark. Contributing writers include Francine Prose and Richard Shiff on Close; Sara Arrhenius, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe and Regina Hasslinger on Thater; and Laura Hoptman, Gerardo Mosquera and Hans Rudolf Reust on Tuymans. This issue also contains essays on David Bunn, Jeremy Deller, and Paul Etienne Lincoln, as well as a conversation between Chuck Close and Elizabeth Peyton and an interview with Close by Bice Curiger. "Parkett #61" will be published in May 2001, with collaboration artists Liam Gillick, Sarah Morris, Bridget Riley, and Matthew Ritchie. In addition to the editorial collaboration, each artist featured in "Parkett" also creates a limited edition print, photograph, or multiple object exclusively for "Parkett". Since its inception, more than 100 works of art have joined the "Parkett" pocket museum or ''Musée en Appartement.'' The Museum of Modern Art in New York is presenting an exhibition of all "Parkett" Editions from March 22 through June 12, 2001. The exhibition is organized by Deborah Wye, Chief Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books.

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