New work by Maya Lin exploring her longtime interest in environmental issues, including rising currents and climate change, and expanding her engagement with natural and geographic forms.
An opening reception for the artist and public will take place this Thursday, April 25, 6 to 8 PM at 32 East 57th Street. We hope you can attend!
© Maya Lin, courtesy Pace Gallery
Nicola Samori (b. 1977). Italian.
Neo-Baroque??
Nicola Samori is fucking incredible. He works out of Italy, and he’s managed to nail the style of the Old Masters: his exhibitions contain everything from beautiful Baroque saints to Flemish still lifes — all painted now, in the modern era, in his studio. And that would be amazing in and of itself, but his work is so much more than simple reproduction. See, once he’s finished with a painting, or once he’s adapted one that’s been previously created, he takes a scalpel to it, a spatula, or a square of sandpaper, and begins to peel it apart. He flays painted skin right off his subjects’ bones.
Sometimes the “destruction” of the images asks the audience to think about what, exactly, the painting communicates when it’s whole. Other times it adds a strange level of corporeality to religious works, or gives portraits a darkly spiritual dimention they never had before.
He’s said in interviews that he views the layers of paint on the canvas as analogous to the muscle and tissue of the human body, and that by wearing it away, he changes the identity of the paintings themselves.
Dark and sometimes chilling as it is, I think his work is genuinely brilliant, and he’s one of my favorite living artists.
(Long story short, here’s his website, go check it out!)
(via lopsidedown)
Gilles Balmet - Silver reliefs. Peinture acrylique argent sur papier noir, 100X70 cm (2011)
(Source: artchipel, via shinyslingback)
Gerhard Richter
November
December
January
1989 / 320 cm x 400 cm | Oil on canvas
* I’ve been reading old interviews with Richter and I find myself nodding my head in agreement at his words—
his words and his work resonate with me differently now, at this point in my life and in my work, I find them affirming and comforting (almost validating)
on the body: quartz, salt & other assorted healing gems
