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This morning I saw this piece up on the Art Market Watch and it made me think of a Detroit artist who did/does similar things. (Forgive my dark pic quality)
Steven ParrinoScab Noggin
$433,000
Sotheby’s New York, Sept. 12, 2007
Ben Kiehl
Ben Kiehl Batter - 2007, Oil on linen, 24 x 18"
posted by art blogs are fun at 9:25 AM
5 Comments:
ben's original. parrino simply ripped off malevich - with loose draping.
what did you think of the bourgeau retrospective and book? i thought it needed more labels and a less researched book.
Parrino takes charge. Everyone's working after Malevich and Christine's comment seems obviously based on this one image. He's got a show opening at Gagosian next week should put him on the map in a serious way. maybe into the cannon take note.
I'm not one of those who cheers for success after the fact. Won't take him far, Nolan, if he's already dead.
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Hey Jef,
Regardless of Parrino's accidental death, his work has a life that's just getting on the road...pun gruesomely intended. I'm sure even you crack your Palermo books every here and again and think about what his work has become. And, if what you're saying is, we should laud Ben because he's alive I'll whole-heartedly agree, but forget Parrino just because he's dead??
Appreciiate your blog post
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