PARRINO, STEVEN
New York 1958 - 2005

Title: "Lucifer's Hammer".
Subtitle: Diptych.
Date: 1989.
Technique: Each: enamel lacquer on canvas.
Measurement: 123 x 183cm.
Notation: One picture signed, dated and titled verso on the stretcher centre left: S. Parrino 89 Lucifers Hammer. One picture monogrammed, dated and titled: SP. 89 Lucifer's Hammer. Each additionally numbered and with installation instructions verso.


Provenance:
- Private collection Germany (directly form the artist)

Exhibitions:
- Kunstparterre, Munich 2013
- Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2019
- Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz 2020

Literature:
- Exhib. cat. Hyper! A Journey Into Art and Music, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Cologne 2019, p. 15, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Steven Parrino, Nihilism is Love, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Cologne 2020, p. 99, ill.



- Parrino is one of the most influential artist personalities of the New York art scene of the 1980s and 1990s
- His "misshaped paintings" are characterised by a radicalism that testifies to a deep understanding of the history of painting
- Title refers to the science fiction novel of the same name by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, published in 1977
- Part of the major 2020 retrospective at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.