Parkett : The Parkett series with contemporary artists. (Zürich : Parkett-Verlag, 2013)
In this issue of Parkett, grandiosity is cut down to size while intimacy looms large. Valentin Carron, Frances Stark, Adrián Villar Rojas, and Danh Vo consider the disproportionate influence of the powerful and tip the scales in the opposite direction. On the cover, a boy smears red handprints down a white wall. He is one of the many young relatives whom Danh Vo invited to join him at Villa Medici, in Rome, as he prepared his exhibition at the start of 2013. The children’s colorful graffiti provided the backdrop for Vo’s work, a concrete reflection of the way that familial bonds pulse beneath the surface of his coolly conceptual installations. Objects bought at auction that once belonged to Robert S. McNamara, US secretary of defense under presidents John F . Kennedy and Lyndon B . Johnson and a primary architect of the war in Vietnam, are presented alongside calligraphy by Vo’s father, who helped his family to escape the country following the fall of Saigon. As Michael Newman observes, “The pen is merely a pen, but what orders it must have signed! These chairs were sat on by McNamara—and perhaps Kennedy and Johnson!” But Vo has stripped the chair, its insides now metamorphosed into a dehierarchized antiform.(editorial by publisher)
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Keywords: Carron, Valentin; Vo, Danh; Villar Rojas, Adrian; Stark, Frances