SIGNED by Artist JENNY SAVILLE Book by Sergio Risaliti Hardcover Art Book

Description: This book was signed in by artist Jenny Saville on Feb 1, 2024 at the Menil Collection in Houston, TX in the occasion of her lecture on artist Cy Twombly. Book is unread, and was removed from the shrink wrap only for her to sign it. Signed in pen on the first free endpaper. Only a few copies were signed. See all photos. Jenny Saville by Sergio Risaliti The volume is dedicated to the work of Jenny Saville (Cambridge, 1970), one of the greatest contemporary painters and a leading voice in the international art scene. FORMAT HardcoverCONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The volume is dedicated to the work of Jenny Saville (Cambridge, 1970), one of the greatest contemporary painters and a leading voice in the international art scene.Saville transcends the limits between figurative and abstract, between informal and gestural, managing to transfigure the news into a universal image, which puts the human figure at the center of the history of art. Huge, naked bodies, with a carnal physicality and oppressed by a weight that is more existential than material, Saville is linked to the great European pictorial tradition in constant comparison with the modernism of Willem de Kooning and Cy Twombly and the portraiture of Pablo Picasso and Francis Bacon.Her work also outlines a strong correlation with the masters of the Italian Renaissance, in particular with some of Michelangelo's great masterpieces. The volume contains a rich catalogue of paintings and drawings from the 1990s to today. Long Description A career-spanning survey of the British painter who has reinvented the nude with forceful brushstrokes and anatomical precision The internationally lauded British painter Jenny Saville transcends the boundaries of classical figuration and modern abstraction in her depictions of the human form. Colossal naked bodies dominate her oeuvre, rendered with all the "imperfections" of flesh intact. Indeed, Saville is deeply interested in the resilience and fragility of the human body, as well as its societal implications and taboos. Collecting material from pathology textbooks, plastic surgery manuals, chronicles of injuries and burns and similar publications, Saville often adds an observational perspective to her work by attending surgery demonstrations and visiting butcheries. She expresses this perspective through an aggressive use of scale, brushy, wide strokes and textures that extend long figurative traditions in painting, linking her to the forceful modernist style of Willem de Kooning and Francis Bacon. Her work also dialogs with the masters of the Italian Renaissance, Michelangelo in particular. This volume contains a rich catalog of Saville's paintings and drawings from the 1990s to today, coalescing the different currents of her formal and conceptual approach. Jenny Saville (born 1970) studied at the Glasgow School of Art in the late 1980s and early '90s before becoming associated with the loose generational cohort of painters and sculptors known as the Young British Artists (YBAs). She showed in the Royal Academy of Arts's famed Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection exhibition in 1997 alongside Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas. Details ISBN 883665083X PUBLISHER Silvana ISBN-10 883665083X ISBN-13 9788836650835 FORMAT Hardcover IMPRINT Silvana PLACE OF PUBLICATION Milan COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION Italy AUTHOR Sergio Risaliti YEAR 2023 EDITED BY Sergio Risaliti ILLUSTRATIONS 152 Illustrations, color DEWEY 759.2 AUDIENCE General UK RELEASE DATE 2023-06-21 PUBLICATION DATE 2023-06-21 PAGES 328

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