In collaboration with Hedges Projects, the Enrico Navarra and 75 Faubourg galleries present a selection of works on canvas and paper by Ronnie Cutrone (American artist, 1948-2013).
As early as 1965, he operated within the sphere of the Factory. After performing with the band Velvet Underground, produced by Andy Warhol, he became one of his close associates. He worked alongside him on the launch of the magazine Interview and on certain series like the «Piss paintings,» for which Warhol would ask him to take extra doses of vitamin B to improve the oxidation reactivity of his urine. He would immortalize the daily life of the Factory through a series of stereoscopic 3D color photographs, featuring images of Warhol at work and photos of his visitors, including Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, Dennis Hopper or Paloma Picasso.
As a key figure of that era, he became a privileged witness to artistic movements ranging from punk to pop. It was in this context that Cutrone developed his own artistic practice and a post-Pop visual style featuring iconic characters such as Woody Woodpecker, Bart Simpson and Bugs Bunny. His works, true testaments to the’New York's creative buzz, were exhibited for the first time at the Richard Feigen Gallery in 1969 and have been part of major private and public collections since their success at Art Basel in 1982.
Cutrone's influence has its roots in figures such as Jimmy Smith, a small-time thief and «action painter» who had been banned from the Factory, who taught him spontaneity and immediacy, or in the humor and lifestyle of Picabia. In his work, he explores violence, accidents, and « rubbernecking response »", the automatic reaction of the viewer who watches crimes and accidents with curiosity. His love for music, comic books, toys, objects found on the street, emblems, signs, and television commercials is reflected in his art, where the’popular imagery is in the spotlight.
Cutrone is fully aware of his impact as well as that of the’Christian iconography which remains one of his primary fields of study. His work reflects a struggle between good and evil, exploring emotions such as love, hate, faith, and fear.
Cutrone's works have regularly been exhibited alongside those of other major artists of the 1980s, such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf and Andy Warhol. Through a selection of works created from 1981 to 2005, this exhibition offers full immersion into his world.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in New York in 1948, Ronnie Cutrone joined the Factory in 1965 and was Andy Warhol’s assistant from 1972 to 1982. After his first solo show at Tony Shafrazi Gallery and his success at Art Basel in 1982, he developed a post-Pop imagery in which Woody Woodpecker, Bugs Bunny and Bart Simpson embody a struggle between good and evil. Shown alongside Basquiat, Haring and Scharf, he is represented in the collections of MoMA and the Whitney. He died in 2013.
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