Presenting unique and in-depth collaborations and editions with leading international artists Parkett 76 features collaborations with Julie Mehretu, Yang Fudong and Lucy McKenzie.
about Julie Mehretu: “As ever, architectural and urban planning designs still form the undercurrent and starting point of her paintings. The artist deploys a wide range of drawings that she finds in a variety of sources. She constantly alternates between different types of architectural drawings - elevations, plans, and perspectival drawings. The result is a complex aesthetic warp and weft. The plans she uses are of buildings and structures that have immense social, political, and cultural significance as architectural systems and infrastructures that shape our everyday lives: places such as airports, urban spaces, sports fields or churches, where large numbers of people congregate.“ (Madeleine Schuppli)

about Yang Fudong: „Perhaps Yang Fudong’s works hark back to a experience common to members of my generation. We had the privilege of being part of two markedly different social and cultural systems, for we experienced the rapid transition from the intense political sentiments of the Cultural Revolution to a capitalist and consumerist society. We are the experimental products in the social laboratory of first modern and then contemporary China.“ (Zhang Wei)

about Lucy McKenzie: „Well, of the top of my head, there’s a connection with certain currents in British Painting - artists such as R. B. Kitaj and Stanley Spencer - and with German painters like Otto Dix or the Austrian, Gustav Klimt. On top of this, I’m interested in processes, in the production of pathos - as in the work of Käthe Kollwitz, for instance. One characteristic of my paintings is certainly the use of trompe-l’oeil effects, flat picture grounds, and a form of literalness. I like insidiousness and things that are supposed to manipulate the viewer. But probably the biggest influence on my painting technique is my dilettantism.“ (Lucy McKenzie in an Interview with Isabell Graw)