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"Ferocious energy in small spaces... verso of book boards...eye seeing eye... each eye seeing each eye....the head is a configuration...a made up geo psycho shape... each head swimming in color... a street moralist... an illustrator of the SOHO shopping epic...from a broken culture... rearranged as a puzzle box...each tic a tac...Flint sees straight ahead...." HarryNudel Such notables as Robert Downey Jr, Karl Lagerfield, Jessica Lange, Owen Wilson, Damon Wayans, Whoopi Goldberg, Winona Ryder, Brenden Fraiser, Ingrid Parewijck, Yoko Ono, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, John Waters, Hal Sparks, Lisa Marie Presley, Donald Faison, Molly Shannon, Rob Schneider, Cortney Cox, |
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Flint Butera's provocative works don't leave the spectators indifferent: they bring to light what all humanity has tried to conceal since the wheel of time commenced: violence sadism brutality, desire, passion, the rejection of the body and the brevity of life. For nearly eighteen years, this self-taught artist, who excels in collage techniques has haunted the New York scene. In his own way, he is the heir of Diogenes of Sinope as the dog philosopher, he barks and bites to awaken the hardened consciences, which are hypnotized by the morbid desire of consumption and humanity as a whole is his inspiration. It is drawn from the streets through the grimacing faces of his contemporaries, who are obsessed by success or profit, unaware of their finitude, denigrating their filthy impulses and trying to hide them behind crude artifices, But Flint Butera has a practiced eye, and, like Bosch or Goya in their time, he reveals the human inclinations and embodies them in monstrous form. |
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A critical artist, he also exposes the crudeness of human actions in their entire splendor. Delicately or savagely, the artist likes to question how humanity relates to its God. The divine One, a recurring theme in his work, is questioned without taboo, his “Seven Deadly Sins”, “Adam, Eve and the Devil” his series of Christ’s, the God incarnate becoming meat, are to be taken literally to be seen crudely, in all their splendor. It is in this representation of the body that his esthetics are fully laid out: the Christ-like, the monstrous, emaciated, mechanical, sick, desirable, pornographic, sacred, surrealist or even frightening body. He uses portions of x-rays to illustrate the interior of our being, as a means to convey the ugliness of our human condition. An unclassifiable and talented artist, Flint Butera shows how much it is not the slumber of reason, which generates monsters, but truly the reason itself |
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