One of the best young British painters working today, Jenny Saville's fleshy nudes give body to a grotesque excess often lost or covered up in our efforts to remain clean and our attempts at perfection. In Saville's work, bodies hang like meat, or take on the appearance of bloated corpses, or become surfaces for texts and maps; Saville points to a physical reality that is both more real and more immaterial than any of our attempts to describe it. Her subjects fill up the canvas, ready to spill over and burst out of the ...
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One of the best young British painters working today, Jenny Saville's fleshy nudes give body to a grotesque excess often lost or covered up in our efforts to remain clean and our attempts at perfection. In Saville's work, bodies hang like meat, or take on the appearance of bloated corpses, or become surfaces for texts and maps; Saville points to a physical reality that is both more real and more immaterial than any of our attempts to describe it. Her subjects fill up the canvas, ready to spill over and burst out of the suddenly fragile frame of the artwork, imposing themselves on the viewer and offering no chance for escape. Accompanying a recent exhibition, this impressive monograph presents several of Saville's new paintings, including a painting of hermaphrodite Del LaGrace Volcano, who contributes a short essay to the book.
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(SAVILLE, JENNY). Saville, Jenny, Del LaGrace Volcano, Barry Martin Weintraub & Martin Gayford. JENNY SAVILLE: TERRITORIES. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1999. First Edition. Small Folio. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine. 48pp, 28 color illustrations. Designed by North. Studio photographs by Glen Luchford. With an exhibition checklist, chronology, exhibition history and bibliography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the elegant catalogue produced in conjunction with the 1999 Gagosian Gallery New York exhibition of works by British enfant-terrible Jenny Saville; her first one-person U.S. show. Each of the five large-scale figurative works shown are reproduced along with numerous corpulent details. It also contains a survey of fourteen earlier pieces executed between 1992 and 1997, and an interview with Saville by Martin Gayford. A handsome example of the 1999 Gagosian first softbound edition showing a tiny dent at the upper foredge corner. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 018632.
Add this copy of Jenny Saville: Territories to cart. $365.00, like new condition, Sold by Arcana: Books on the Arts rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Culver City, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Gagosian Gallery.
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(SAVILLE, JENNY). Saville, Jenny, Del LaGrace Volcano, Barry Martin Weintraub & Martin Gayford. JENNY SAVILLE: TERRITORIES. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1999. First Edition. Small Folio. Linen Over Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine. /No Jacket-As Issued. 48pp, 28 color illustrations. Designed by North. Studio photographs by Glen Luchford. With an exhibition checklist, chronology, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the elegant hardbound catalogue produced in conjunction with the first American one-person exhibition of works by British enfant-terrible Jenny Saville held at Gagosian Gallery New York in 1999. Each of the five large-scale figurative works shown are reproduced along with numerous corpulent details. It also contains a survey of fourteen earlier pieces executed between 1992 and 1997, along with an interview with Saville by Martin Gayford. A most handsome example of the uncommon hardbound edition. 1-880154-2605 Inventory Number: 017959.
Add this copy of Jenny Saville: Territories to cart. $1,400.00, new condition, Sold by Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Albuquerque, NM, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Gagosian Gallery.
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New. No dust jacket as issued. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Beige linen cloth-covered boards with title stamped in white on cover and spine; no dust jacket as issued. Paintings by Jenny Saville. Interview with the artist by Martin Gayford. Essay by Del LaGrace Volcano. Text by Barry Martin Weintraub. Studio photographs by Glen Luchford. Includes a list of plates, a biography and an exhibition history. Designed by North. Unpaginated (48 pp., including one 2-page gatefold), with 26 four-color plates (including numerous enlarged details of the paintings), finely printed in England by Colourhouse. 13-1/2 x 9-7/8 inches. Published on the occasion of the 1999 exhibition Jenny Saville: Territories at the Gagosian Gallery, New York. New. A mint copy. From the publisher: "Saville has been recognized as one of the most thought-provoking and technically accomplished talents of her generation...In this long awaited exhibition [her first solo show], the distinctive nature of Saville's giant, fleshy nudes is both surprising and provocative; virtuoso nudes, reminiscent of the old masters', yet employed to question societal obsession with an idealized, almost robotic, image of the female form. By portraying these 'images of extreme humanness' that are so out of place in an anxious culture obsessed with eternal youth and beauty, Saville confronts the very essence of what it means to have an active mind in a decaying, dying body. Characteristic of Saville's work, her paint becomes flesh as it evokes the feel and touch of the body, its smell and material presence. Her gargantuan figures are freed from the conventions of feminine delicacy. They cascade across the canvas and into the viewer's physical space. The vast images of corpulent bodies are deliberately ambiguous as the paintings impose themselves on the viewer and surround the body that is looking at them. The viewer cannot escape the implications of their physical being. Jenny Saville calls herself 'a scavenger of images, ' she normally prefers to work from photographs rather than living models. In her studio she likes to be surrounded by images; her figures are usually composites of several bodies. It is interesting to note that Saville once worked in a plastic surgeon's office in New York and frequently visits a London medical museum as member of a pathology group. She shares with Francis Bacon a fascination for collecting pictures found in old medical journals of bruises, scars, gun shot wounds, pictures of deformities, and traces of disease which leave inscriptions on a body over time, like a memory, or a mark on a canvas."
