Jenny Saville (EN)

Edited by Sergio Risaliti
Binding Hardcover
Size 24,50 x 31,50 cm
Pages 328
Illustrations 125
Language English
Year 2023
ISBN 9788836650835
Price € 45,00 € 42,75

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Abstract

This volume is dedicated to the work of Jenny Saville (Cambridge, 1970), one of the greatest contemporary painters and a leading voice on the international art scene.

Saville transcends the boundaries between figurative and abstract, between informal and gestural, managing to transfigure the chronicle into a universal image, which puts the human figure back at the centre of art history—huge, naked bodies, with a carnal physicality and oppressed by a weight that is more existential than material.
Seville links up with the great European pictorial tradition in constant dialogue with the modernism of Willem de Kooning and Cy Twombly, and the portraiture of Pablo Picasso and Francis Bacon. Her artworks also draw a strong correlation with the masters of the Italian Renaissance, in particular with some of Michelangelo’s greatest masterpieces.
The volume includes a rich catalogue of paintings and drawings created by the artist from the 90s up to the present day.

Contents

Jenny Saville
Tradition and the Avant-garde
How It Can Come About That Two Parallel Lines Meet in a Single Pictorial Universe
Sergio Risaliti

Jenny Saville
Painting the Truth
Caroline Corbetta

Jenny Saville’s Theatre
Impressions Intermittences Landscapes
Federico Tiezzi

Interview with Jenny Saville
Cristiana Perrella

The Restoration of Contemporary Graphics and Jenny Saville
Some Reflections
Livio Nappo

MUSEO NOVECENTO

Jenny Saville
Blindness and Sight
Sergio Risaliti

MUSEO DI PALAZZO VECCHIO

La Sala del Maggior Consiglio or Il Salone delle Guerre
Carlo Francini

The Eye and the Limit of the Body
Some Statues of the Salone dei Cinquecento and Fulcrum
Francesco Vossilla

MUSEO DELL’OPERA DEL DUOMO