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Paul Kostabi’s paintings are not detached. This is not a value judg-ment. Detached art can be great. Andy Warhol was detached. So was Duchamp, Manzoni and Magritte. Maybe we could say that Raphael, Ingres, Perugino and early Rembrandt were detached, compared to Caravaggio, El Greco, Giotto and late Rembrandt. At least in the look of their immediate surfaces. The amorphous soul of distance may lay a claim to being as attached as Elmer’s glue soaked in a ratty kitchen sponge. Or as attached as the endless va-riety of autobiographical objects literally locked in with Paul Kostabi’s “goop” (acrylic gel medium) into the torrential stream of paintings that rise from the lawn surrounding his Piermont, New York studio. Van Gogh was definitely not detached. His paintings are proof of life. It’s strange to think of Paul Kostabi’s paintings as paintings. It’s as if he walked into the canvas, emerged from the other side and walked back out through the front, leaving a clone of his soul and much of his guts interweaved throughout the cloth and wood of the stretcher. His paintings are like the roots of a massive tree, slowly but surely causing the concrete sidewalk of the art world to crack and buckle.

Paul Kostabi is not always alone when he paints. Friends stop by. They talk as he paints. Fragments of the “casual conversations” im-mediately end up in the painting. The feeling is like when you walk by an electronics store and suddenly see yourself in a TV monitor in the window. You could say something about your car to Paul while he’s painting and before you finish your sentence he’s already written it

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down with a paint marker on his canvas. People suggest ideas or give him objects to glue into his work. He almost never declines and the idea or object just goes right in, but always with his personal tran-sformation. And then he’s on to the next thing. Maybe he’s detached after all.

Mark Kostabi, April, 2007.

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I dipinti di Paul Kostabi non sono distaccati. Questo non vuole essere un giudizio di valore. L’arte distaccata può essere eccellente. Andy Warhol ne è un esempio. Come lo sono Duchamp, Manzoni e Magritte. Probabilmente possiamo affermare che Raffaello, Ingres, Perugino e il primo Rembrandt erano freddi, distanti, se comparati a Caravaggio, El Greco, Giotto e all’ultimo Rembrandt. Almeno se uno si ferma solo alla superficie. In realtà lo spirito, privo di forme, del distacco può ri-vendicare un attaccamento pari a quello della colla Elmer penetrata in una lurida spugna da cucina. O a quello dell’infinita varietà di oggetti au-tobiografici letteralmente catturati con la “sostanza appiccicosa” (gel acrilico) utilizzata da Paul Kostabi nel flusso torrenziale di dipinti che scaturisce dal prato che circonda il suo studio di Piermont, New York.

Van Gogh di certo non era distaccato. I suoi dipinti palpitavano di vita. È strano pensare ai dipinti di Paul Kostabi come a dei dipinti. È come se lui entrasse nell’opera, sbucasse fuori dall’altro lato, pas-seggiasse sulla parte anteriore e se ne andasse lasciando un clo-ne della sua anima e molte delle sue budella intrecciati tra la tela e il legno del telaio. I suoi dipinti sono come le radici di un enor-me albero, che lentamente ma inesorabilmente causano la rottu-ra e la deformazione del solido marciapiede del mondo dell’arte.

Paul Kostabi non è sempre da solo quando dipinge. Gli amici passano a trovarlo. Gli parlano mentre lavora. Frammenti di queste “conversa-zioni casuali” finiscono direttamente nei dipinti. È la stessa sensazione che si prova quando si cammina davanti ad un negozio di elettronica e improvvisamente si vede la propria immagine riflessa nel monitor

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di un televisore in vetrina. Così può accadere che tu racconti a Paul qualcosa sulla tua automobile mentre lui sta dipingendo e che, prima che tu abbia finito la frase, lui l’abbia già scritta con un pennarello sulla tela. La gente gli suggerisce idee o gli dà oggetti da attaccare al suo lavoro. Lui non rifiuta quasi mai e così l’idea o l’oggetto entrano dritti nell’opera, ma sempre con la sua personale interpretazione. E lui è già sulla prossima cosa. Forse, dopotutto, è proprio distaccato.

Mark Kostabi, aprile 2007.

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ONE FAN AT A TIME2007

oil on canvas / olio su tela70 x 70 inches / 178 x 178 cm

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MAN WITH EUROBEAT2007

oil on canvas / olio su tela40 x 30 inches / 102 x 76 cm

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HUMAN BEHAVIOR2007

oil on canvas / olio su tela48 x 24 inches / 122 x 61 cm

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SUCUBUNT LARGE2007

oil on canvas / olio su tela40 x 30 inches / 102 x 76 cm

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FLOWERS OF ECHO PARK2006

oil on canvas / olio su tela48 x 60 inches / 122 x 152 cm

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MASSIVE ATTACK2007

oil on canvas / olio su tela48 x 44 inches / 122 x 112 cm

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THE CONTENTMENT OF MONTE MCEVILLEY2006

oil on canvas / olio su tela56 x 40 inches / 142 x 102 cm

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LUSTING FOR LIFE2006

oil on canvas / olio su tela18 x 24 inches / 45 x 61 cm

PRESSURE COOKER2006

oil on canvas / olio su tela18 x 24 inches / 45 x 61 cm

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PRICE WATERHOUSE2006

oil on canvas / olio su tela18 x 24 inches / 45 x 61 cm

LITTLE GUY AT THE BOTTOM2006

oil on canvas / olio su tela24 x 18 inches / 61 x 45 cm

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HARLEM TBONE2006

oil on canvas / olio su tela24 x 18 inches / 61 x 45 cm

KEEPING IT IGNORANT2006

oil on canvas / olio su tela24 x 18 inches / 61 x 45 cm

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SWIZZLER2006

oil on canvas / olio su tela18 x 24 inches / 45 x 61 cm

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WEED WACKER2000

oil on canvas / olio su tela8 x 6 inches / 20 x 15 cm

DOUGHNUT HEAD2003

oil and paintmarker on canvas / olio e pennarello su tela14 x 10 inches / 36 x 25 cm

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CAT 12003

sumi ink on paper / inchiostro sumi su carta24 x 18 inches / 61 x 45 cm

CAT 32003

sumi ink on paper / inchiostro sumi su carta24 x 18 inches / 61 x 45 cm

CAT 22003

sumi ink on paper / inchiostro sumi su carta24 x 18 inches / 61 x 45 cm

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1983Long Beach Poets Society, Long Beach, California, USA.

1984Fashion Moda, group show, New York City, NY, USA.Casa Nada, New York City, NY, USA.

1985No Se No, New York City, NY, USA.Ronald Feldman Gallery, group show, New York City, NY, USA.

1986LACE Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA.Edge Gallery, group show, Fullerton, California, USA.

1989USA Gallery, New York City, NY, USA.

1991Tunnel Gallery, New York City, NY, USA.

1994Angel Orensanz Foundation, group show, New York City, NY, USA.

1995ABC No Rio, group show, New York City, NY, USA.

1999Great Linford Manor, Milton Keynes, England.PANX, Toulouse, France.

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2001Musical Tragedies, Internet show, Furth, Germany.

Destroy All Music, Silverlake, California, USA.Dark Delicacies, Burbank, California, USA.

SPA, New York City, NY, USA.Lakeside Lounge, New York City, NY, USA.

Max Fish, New York City, NY, USA.Taylors, photo show, New York City, NY, USA.

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Gallerie Haus, Nuremberg, Germany.Ramones & Augsburg Festival, Augsburg, Germany.

Saletta D’Arte Viviani, Pisa, Italy.Knitting Factory, Los Angeles, California, USA, with Dee Dee Ramone.

Studio Mondolibro Arte, Florence, Italy.

2003Rampe 3, Augsburg, Germany.

Spazi Arte, Piacenza, Italy.Night of 1000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York City, NY, USA.

Lucky Cat, New York City, NY, USA.Galerie Zero, Berlin, Germany.Popkomm, Cologne, Germany.

84 Ghz Gallery, Munich, Germany.Putignano Arte, Noci, Bari, Italy.

2004Scope, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Saatchi & Saatchi, benefit auction, New York City, NY, USA.Galleria d’arte Quadreria, S. Donà di Piave, Venice, Italy.

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2005Galleria Leonardo, Bolzano, Italy.Galerìa de la Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.Ateliers des Artistes de Belleville, Paris, France.Galerie Zero, Berlin, Germany.Capo di Lucca, Bologna, Italy.

2006Margutta Arte Contemporanea, Catania, Italy.Galleria d’Arte Genus, San Benedetto del Tronto, Ascoli Piceno, Italy.

2007Galleria Cavour, Bologna, Italy.Libreria Bocca, Milan, Italy.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA.Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ, USA.New England Center for Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, CT, USA.Whitney Museum of American Art, Video, Paper Tiger Sessions, New Work City, NY, USA.Nassau County Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA.

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