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3 unusual facts about Steven Parrino


Steven Parrino

Parrino used intentionally provocative subjects like abstract swastikas, rebel flags, and silhouettes of Russ Meyer starlets, Elvis Presley as rendered by Andy Warhol, the Hells Angels, Johnny Cash, and other works by Andy Warhol.

In 1999, a CD titled Electrophilia – Live France 1999 was released by the Consortium in Dijon, France.

His work has been called "mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction" by the art critic Jerry Saltz.


Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein

In 2006, the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein together with the Kunstmuseum St.Gallen and the Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt acquired the collection of Cologne based galerist Rolf Ricke that includes works by Richard Artschwager, Bill Bollinger, Donald Judd, Fabian Marcaccio, Steven Parrino, David Reed, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier or Jessica Stockholder.

Marc-Olivier Wahler

Under his artistic directorship, CAN organized group shows that included Gianni Motti (1995), Philippe Parreno (1995), Jonathan Monk (1997), Steven Parrino (1998), and Roman Signer (1999).


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