Article: The ballad of Blinky Palermo: he was a student of Joseph Beuys, an early cohort of Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter, and by 1977 a casualty of hard living. Yet in 13 short years Blinky Palermo created a body of work not just indelibly his own but also, strikingly, still fresh today.

Blinky Palermo's eternally young, loose-limbed production has been on many people's minds for the past few seasons. What with the recent revival of painting; the extended parameters of the medium as practiced by many artists, both established and emerging; and the continuing fascination with the more archeological aspects of 1960s and '70s German art activity, his work looks fresher than ever. Palermo's ethereal yet robustly painted early-to-mid-'60s canvases (both on and off the stretcher), with their intuitively placed squares, stripes and rectangles, and his eccentrically shaped and color-taped objects leaning against a wall or flying high, salon-style, near a cornice ...

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