Louise Bonnet /
Swiss artist Louise Bonnet probes the limits of the human body in her paint-ings, pushing its expansibility on a fine line between beauty and ugliness into the real-surreal. Voluptuous torsos and bulbous extremities besiege her paint-ings, an arresting parade of odd-looking noses, nipples, and wig-l...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin : Berlin :
Galerie Max Hetzler ; Holzwarth Publications,
[2020]
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| Summary: | Swiss artist Louise Bonnet probes the limits of the human body in her paint-ings, pushing its expansibility on a fine line between beauty and ugliness into the real-surreal. Voluptuous torsos and bulbous extremities besiege her paint-ings, an arresting parade of odd-looking noses, nipples, and wig-like clusters of mostly blonde hair whose glamour always comes with a sense of incomple-tion. Gender is alternatively exaggerated or completely neglected, sharpening the figures? enigmatic character. Held between cartoon-like joyousness and the masterful formality of modernist sculpture, they are stretching and bending in uncomfortable postures in an endless time loop. In her essay, Flavia Frigeri describes these paintings as the twilight of beauty suffused with an art-histori-cal memory. ?Through her eclectic approach to figurative painting,? she writes, "Bonnet challenges and addresses normative aesthetic values, as well as ideas concerning identity and representation".00Exhibition: Galerie Max Hetzler, London, UK (16.01. - 29.02.2020). |
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| Physical Description: | 78 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783947127238 3947127235 |