Published on the occasion of the exhibition Andy Warhol: Self Portraits (Fright Wigs) at Skarstedt Gallery in New York, this catalogue features beautiful full plate images, details and installation shots of Andy Warhol's monumental Self Portraits of 1986. The catalogue also features an essay Shades of Warhol discussing the iconic series. The Self Portrait (Fright Wig) series represents a culmination of themes present in Warhol's oeuvre. Throughout his career, Warhol painted portraits of celebrities, politicians and socialites that he considered the icons of contemporary life. Here he places himself in that same category, elevating his own status and the status of the artist. Further, Warhol employs his mechanical approach to art making by using his perfected silk-screen technique to create a serialized image. Warhol's work has been the subject of countless exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world. Important exhibitions were held at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 2001, the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany in 1996, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1989. His works have also been exhibited in major institutions such as the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, the Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld, Germany and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. The Andy Warhol Museum opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in May of 1994. His work has been featured in numerous publications. Andy Warhol died in 1987 in New York.

Andy Warhol: Self Portraits (Fright Wigs)

Skarstedt

Arts & Photography

Skarstedt Gallery

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Martin Kippenberger: Hand Painted Pictures at Skarstedt Gallery in New York, this catalogue features full plate images, details, and an extensive essay about the series by Art Historian Jakob Schillinger, Vorsprung Durch Reinkarnation. Painted in 1992, the series was created on the island of Syros, Greece and in the artist's Frankfurt studio. Hand Painted Pictures represents the second of three major cycles of self- portraits in Kippenberger's oeuvre and demonstrates the artist's preoccupation with the subject of self-representation. Classical art history celebrates portraiture as one of the highest genres of art for its ability to elevate the status of the sitter. Here, Martin Kippenberger scraps that institutional notion and instead offers an inglorious, sometimes grotesque, series of self-portraits. The paintings were first exhibited at Max Hetzler Gallery in Cologne, Germany in October of 1992. Often referencing modern icons and historical figures in his paintings, Kippenberger's Hand Painted Pictures are at once comical and tragic, serious and subverted, and some of the most important paintings in his oeuvre.

Martin Kippenberger: Hands Painted Pictures

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Steven Parrino: Paintings & Drawings 1986-2003, this catalogue features full plate images, installation views, archival images, and an essay by curator Marc-Olivier Wahler. In the late seventies, Parrino began attacking, slashing, tearing, and twisting the canvas, disrupting the traditional Greenbergian celebration of flatness. With an uncompromisingly nihilist attitude, Parrino in many ways mirrored the rebellions of the American punk music scene and subcultures, translating that chaotic spirit in his work. Featuring additional works beyond those exhibited at Skarstedt, this catalogue revisits the artist’s career in painting and works on paper since his last New York exhibition in 2007. Parrino’s Amphetamine Monster-Mill series of black and white photo-collages exhibited in 1995 at Art & Public in Geneva were shown and published only once before and uniquely revisited nearly 25 years later.

Steven Parrino: Paintings & Drawings 1986-2003

Skarstedt Gallery (2019)

Albert Oehlen: Fn Paintings

Kaws

Skarstedt Gallery, Limited

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