Steven Parrino - Contemporary Art Evening Sale New York Thursday, March 4, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan; Private collection, Italy

  • Exhibited

    Moscow, Gagosian Gallery, for what you are about to receive, September 18 - October 25, 2008; New York, Stellan Holm Gallery, The Unforgiven, November 7 – December 6, 2008; Zurich, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Steven Parrino, February 15 - April 4, 2008

  • Literature

    W. Robinson, “Art Market Watch,” Artnet Magazine (online content) September 13, 2007; M. Sahakian, “Review: Steven Parrino,” Artkrush (online content) March 19, 2008; Gagosian Gallery, ed., for what you are about to receive, Moscow, 2008, p. 111 (illustrated)

  • Catalogue Essay


    "Even when Parrino’s works are nearly flat, they are as much about sculpture, mass, form and volume as they are about painting. He understood that sculpture and painting are both intrinsically about space (and this includes the space of the gallery), and his hybrid objects—disrupted canvas surfaces, paintings removed from stretchers and bound up on the floor, overlapped leaning panels—play with spatial aspects and thereby seem to perform,"  (B. Nickas, “Steven Parrino,” ArtForum, New York, September 2007).
     
    The present lot by Steven Parrino is an exemplary highlight of the artist’s fascination with tools of contortion within the medium of painting resulting in deconstructed artworks reminiscent of artists such as Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni. In Scab Noggin, Parrino presents a canvas which after being painted, has been literally pulled and twisted away from the “figure” of the stretcher and crumpled. Raw canvas that ordinarily would be pinned behind the painting is suddenly revealed, expressing an aggressive new foreground. The result of this process yields a response inherent to Parrino’s attitude towards his art: autonomous, uncompromising and tough as nails.

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Scab Noggin

1988
Acrylic on canvas.
72 x 72 in. (182.9 x 182.9 cm).
Signed, titled and dated “S. Parrino ‘Scab Noggin’ 1988” on the reverse; stamped “Steven Parrino” on the right side.

Estimate
$400,000 - 600,000 

Sold for $458,500

Contemporary Art Evening Sale

4 Mar 2010
New York