After reading this review, I can't wait to get to Gagosian Gallery to catch the latest work of artist Jenny Saville. From the gallery's press release:
Saville portrays the intimate relationship between mother and child in a series of life-sized drawings directly inspired by Renaissance nativity portraits -- in particular Leonardo da Vinci’s cartoon The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and John the Baptist, an atypical scene in which the Virgin contends with a lively Christ-child. In Study for Pentimenti IV (After Michelangelo’s Virgin and Child) (2011), and Componimento inculto (2011), the subjects – a pregnant woman and young child-- are recorded in symbiotic flux. Multiple impressions of each figure are drawn, erased, and superimposed again to create studies in simultaneity; the relationship between them is expressed in a series of dynamic poses rather than in static compositions of iconographic order. Through these intricate studies, Saville gives powerful graphic life to the anatomical details and expressive movements that animate and underpin her visceral paintings.
Jenny Saville is my absolute favorite artist of all time! I have been following her work since she graduated Slade college and Saatchi and Saatchi bought all her work straight out of her thesis show. She's phenomenal. You hear so little about her over here in the US (I grew up in the UK) so it was a delight to wake up to this post and I had no idea that she was showing her work here so thank you!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE these!! Would love to see her show.
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Pretty cool to see these. Back in the day, my high school years 100 years ago, I fell in love with Jenny Saville after an editorial in Vogue UK. Beautiful to see the evolution in her work. I recall her images of sickly women being likened to butcher's meat, now I see beautiful robust mothers. I also recall that she loved working to football broadcasts over her radio, that is something that has stayed with me too, all these years, and as an artist, has always made me smile when I do art listening to sports. Thanks for sharing!!!
ReplyDeletedid you ever get to go? i LOVE her and saw this show in october. amazing - really so beautiful and gritty simulatenously.
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