All images Steven Parrino, copyright estate of Steven Parrino, New York
This summer, the Palais de Tokyo devotes the entirety of its exhibition spaces to a programme of and around the artist Steven Parrino entitled LA MARQUE NOIRE.
Steven Parrino, who died in a motorcycle accident in January 2005, is considered by many as a model of a radical and uncompromising artistic activity. Inspired by the artist's ability to disregard the notion of categories and to place the collaborative process at the core of his practice, LA MARQUE NOIRE presents a wide selection of overlapping exhibitions and events.
The three exhibitions on view are: STEVEN PARRINO: RETROSPECTIVE 1981-2004; BEFORE (PLUS OU MOINS), an exhibition of artists who had a deep influence on Parrino (including Vito Acconci, Kenneth Anger, Donald Judd, Robert Smithson, Frank Stella, Sturtevant, and Andy Warhol); and BASTARD CREATURE, an exhibition of artists who Parrino supported and influenced that is based on two previous exhibitions that the artist curated himself, in Bregenz (2003) and Dijon (1999) - the artists in this third exhibition include Richard Aldrich, Cinema Zero, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Amy Granat, Richard Kern, Jutta Koether, Michael Lavine, Chuck Nanney, Amy O'Neill, Maï-Thu Perret, and Banks Violette.
Steven Parrino made the apparently inconceivable junction between Pop culture and Greenbergian modernism, bringing together the aesthetics of Hell's Angels and Minimal Art. If painting was dead, he believed in the life that thrives in the pieces of its leftover corpse. By presenting a large number of Parrino's works and by inviting the artists who have influenced him, as well as the artists whom Parrino chose to exhibit, support, and with whom he often collaborated, LA MARQUE NOIRE becomes a universe that stretches from minimalism, tattoos, experimental films, and cartoons to industrial design, No Wave, and punk.
LA MARQUE NOIRE was conceived by Palais de Tokyo Director Marc-Olivier Wahler. Faithful to the collaborative spirit of Steven Parrino, other curators were invited to collaborate in the preparation of the various components of this programme.
Steven Parrino: La Marque Noir
Until 26 August
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