ENZO CUCCHI (1949) - MARK KOSTABI (1960) . Chi è tuo padre? Enzo Cucchi.. At the back title, signature and year. Pubblication: Kostabi Mark - Chi è tuo padre? - Enzo Cucchi by Achille Bonito Oliva and Lavinia Filippi, Pio Monti Gallery, Rome, December 2005. Provenance: Pio Monti Gallery, Rome. Private Collection, Rome. ""Enzo Cucchi wanted to forget by heart an image that appeared on his screen of possible iconography but decided, in dialogue, to communicate it to another artist, Kostabi, who took charge of it with his usual language but assuming inside his own pictorical enclosure the input of the other artist. The dialogue vaporizes in a four-handed drawing where both will undertake a process of hybridization of the image with elements referring to two different iconographic universes, Cucchi's visionary, inhabited by clouds and skulls, Kostabi’s illustrative, led towards an explicit and modular narrative. […] The question posed by the four-handed drawing Who is your mother? finds its illustration in an image that summarizes the answer in the figure of the mother (Cucchi ) and then reconstructs his own genealogical and anthropological tree highlighting the father figure (Warhol) but without drama in an iconographic universe, which has become advertising of painting […] Thus was born the idea of an artist in his cradle, with brushes in his right hand and a lot of money in his left hand, in turn waiting for an artist embryo […] Enzo only intervenes when the design has been completed, making some changes. He adds the red cloud that accompanies the flight of the Holy House of Loreto and modifies the embryo, giving the painting two spots of color […] the drawing by Mark and Enzo was then delivered to Mark's workshop, the Kostabi World of Manhattan, who made a large oil on canvas out of it and gave it a name. […] The title, Who's your daddy? was proposed by Walter Robinsion, director of Artnet, during the television broadcast invented by Mark and which is broadcast weekly in Manhattan. […] Who's Your Daddy? Was subsequently transported by the angels of Kostabi around Campo Dei Fiori, on the occasion of the opening of the new Roman space of the historic and very high gallerist Pio Monti"". (Achille Bonito Oliva - Lavinia Filippi, Chi è tuo padre? Enzo Cucchi).. Cm 380,00 x 280,00. 2005