INSIDE A BOOK A HOUSE OF GOLD – ARTISTS’ EDITIONS FOR PARKETT February 25 2012，Beijing, China UCCA is proud to present a major exhibition in collaboration with Parkett, opening on February 25th. Installed across three of four exhibition spaces at UCCA, “Inside a Book a House of Gold” takes its title from a poetic Editorial Contact: prescription by the most artistic of Chinese emperors, Song Zhenzong(968- 1022 CE). Inside this “house,” 212 edited works by 192 artists, produced in Sybella Chow collaboration with Parkett since the journal’s founded in Zurich in 1984, are +86 10 5780 0253 presented for the first time to a Chinese audience. +86 186 1115 7030 The works, which collectively offer a portrait of the situation and evolution of [email protected] contemporary art at the turn of the twenty-first century, are classified and exhibited according to the logic of domestic space, with a “Playroom,” a “Studio,” a “City,” and a “Wardrobe” framing a central “Garden.” The works Media/UCCA Members/VIP Preview: cover every possible medium including painting, photography, drawing, print, sculpture, video, and sound. Some distill the essence of a given th February 25 artist’s work; others reveal an unexpected dimension. Each of these rooms takes on a special feel and character, aided by walls of consciously different colors. Exhibition dates: February 26th – April 8th, The works on view are all part of Parkett’s ongoing collaboration projects, 2012 which to date also feature three or four in-depth texts on each artist, a total of 89 Parkett volumes and 1400 texts. All publications are presented in the exhibition’s “Reading Room.” As an international institution with a deep commitment to its public in China and Beijing, UCCA is delighted to present this walk-in encyclopedia in a context where comprehensive frameworks for looking at contemporary art have been in short supply. Moreover, in a place where scale has often been a cover for displays of overwhelming size, the idea of an exhibition whose reach is articulated as a multiplicity of positions, rather than a single grand gesture, seems particularly resonant. For Parkett, which cooperated in 2010 with Shanghai’s Art World magazine to translate and publish fourteen key texts in Chinese, the exhibition marks a deepening of its engagement with the Chinese context. Related Programs smart Artists’ Talk Series: Inside a Book a House of Gold – A Roundtable Conversation Time: Sunday, Feb 26, 13:00-14:30 Venue: UCCA Auditorium Moderator: Philip Tinari (UCCA Director) Guests: Dieter von Graffenried (Publisher, Parkett) Jacqueline Burckhardt (Co-founder, Parkett) Bice Curiger (Editor-in-Chief, Parkett; Artistic Director, 54th Venice Biennale) Pu Hong (Writer, Critic) UCCA Art Program：PARKETT’ s History – A Private and Expanded View Time: Sunday, Feb 26, 15:00-16:00 Venue: UCCA Auditorium Guest: Bice Curiger (Editor-in-Chief, Parkett; Artistic Director, 54th Venice Biennale) Publication The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual (Chinese-English) catalogue raisonné of all editions made with Parkett to date, featuring new translations of contextual information on each work into Chinese, new texts by Pu Hong and Philip Tinari, and texts by Susan Tallman and Deborah Wye. The catalogue will be available at UCCASTORE. The exhibition opening is supported by the Embassy of Switzerland. UCCA Artists’ Talk Series is sponsored by smart. Bice Curiger's lecture is sponsored by Pro Helvetia. About UCCA The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art(UCCA) is a comprehensive not-for-profit art center that brings together the finest in Chinese and international contemporary art. As an incubator for innovation in the arts, UCCA offers a rich variety of public programs and is at the forefront of the latest developments in Chinese art and culture. UCCA is committed to promoting the development of the arts and expanding art and cultural education to a broader public. http://www.ucca.org.cn/ About PARKETT Parkett is published in direct collaboration with important international artists, who create special signed and numbered works exclusively for the magazine. Parkett has published more than 80 volumes with some 180 monographs and over 1500 in-depth texts by leading writers and critics, making it one of the world's most comprehensive libraries on contemporary art. The collection of editions, prints, photographs, objects, and other works also forms a small museum of the most significant art of the past quarter-century. Exhibitions of Parkett's artists' editions have been held in major museums around the world, in cities including New York, Cologne, Copenhagen, Geneva, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, and now Beijing. Parkett is published twice annually in English and German by its eponymous publishing house in Zurich and additional editorial office in New York. With a circulation of 10,000 and a readership of more than 30,000 in over 40 countries, Parkett is available by subscription and in more than 500 art bookshops around the world. Parkett was founded in 1984 by Bice Curiger, Jacqueline Burckhardt, and Dieter von Graffenried. For more details about Parkett volumes, artist editions, and museum exhibitions, please visit: www.parkettart.com .