Until 16 September 2018 ALL'inside the group exhibition NOW will be exhibited seventeen works that retrace twenty-five years of the production of the'English artist.
NOW è a series of exhibitions that have taken place in the SNGMA spaces since March 2017. L'ambition of this project è to highlight the qualityà of the artistic production that arises from artists trained and lived in Scotland and the United Kingdom.
The exhibition also includes the works of five other artists engaged in research through the medium of the body, of performance, sculpture and video: l'Austrian Markus Schinwald, l'South African artist Robin Rhode, Christine Borland, Catherine Street and Sara Barker.
Jenny saville, born in 1970, è one of the members of the group that from the years '90 dà luster all'British art around the world, The Young British Artists group. She is a graduate of Glasglow School of Art, in 2003 she represented Great Britain at the 50th Biennale d'Venice art.
Saville's works are now part of several public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art of San Diego, and private, the Gagosian Gallery and the collection of Mario Testino are among them.
Five rooms that accompany the visitor in his artistic journey through the experimentation of techniques; from painting material of the its monumental paintings that can only recall Lucien Freud, present in the permanent collection of the Scottish National Gallery upstairs, down to charcoal and in pencil.
The huge surfaces of Saville's works they catch the eye of'observer who gets lost in the epithelial matter of bodies. The size of the paintings allows you to grasp both l'set of'work that the details of the skin made up of pure pictorial mass in which the knowledge of the human figure is lost.
Among the works exposed we find Olympia, (2013-2014, charcoal and oil on canvas, 217 × 290 cm, Gagosian gallery) which alreadyà the name evokes Manet's masterpiece by reinterpreting its subject and meaning and One Out of Two (symposium) (2016, charcoal and pencil on canvas, 151.9 × 224.9 × 3.2 cm, Mario Testino Collection) in which the movements of the tangle of moving bodies are traced using the medium of charcoal and pencil, almost as if we were in front of a photograph taken with a very long exposure.
On the occasion of the exhibition a work by Saville è was placed in the Scottish National Gallery of Art. Aleppo (2017-2018) enters the city's museum of ancient artà of Edinburgh next to the works of Titian representing a pietà contemporary, testimony of the atrocitiesà of the war in Syria.
Martina Di Iulio – Master MaSvic 17-18
