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Pflumm was a central figure in the cultural scene of 1990s Berlin. Pflumm founded the legendary Elektro club on Berlin’ s Mauerstraße which featured DJs such as Jeff Mills and DJ Hell from 1992 until its closure in 1994. It was here at Elektro, one would find TV monitors playing videos made by Pflumm: short segments from recorded news, TV commercials, and brand logos looped.
His work blurred the boundaries between art, electronic music and nightlife. u STEVEN PARRINO AT GALERIE ANDREA CARATSCH
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Steven Parrino appeared on the scene at the end of the 1980s with his unmistakable monochrome canvases which, following the painting process, were dismounted from their frame and subsequently re-stretched into scrunched, three-dimensional forms.
The paintings jut, relief-like, from the wall, suggesting, in the words of Robert Nickas,“ the crumpled body of a car after an accident … a clear sign of violence being served cold”. Alongside this, the artist used aluminium honeycomb panels from aircraft manufacture and canted them in such a way that they protruded into space as three-dimensional objects mimicking a gesture of destruction.“ When I started making paintings, the word on painting was PAINTING IS DEAD. I saw this as an interesting place for painting death can be refreshing” said Steven Parrino“ so I started engaging in necrophilia approaching history in the same way that Dr. Frankenstein approached body parts’ Following in the tradition of Frank Stella’ s‘ Black’ series as well as Andy Warhols’ s Electric Chair and Disaster paintings, Parrino’ s highly individual‘ necrophilic’ approach made him a trailblazer for artists who turned to the dark side of human existence.
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