JENNY SAVILLE
Suspension, 2002-2003
Oil on canvas
115 x 178-3/8 x 3-1/4 inches
Suspension, 2002-2003
Oil on canvas
115 x 178-3/8 x 3-1/4 inches
I want to introduce the Gagosian gallery. It is located in a corner on the westernmost end of 24th street with 30,000 square feet of exhibition space. Gagosian has galleries in London, Beverly Hills, and currently two in New York. They already have gallery in Chelsea and so, because of plenty of activity in the buyer's room, they also converted a warehouse into a gallery in the Chelsea district of the New York. We will visit Gagoisan’s fifth gallery worldwide, its third in New York, and its second in Chelsea,the contemporary –art mecca of New York. The art world’s leader in exhibition space, the Gagosian Gallery marks modern and contemporary paintings, sculpture, photography and mixed-media works on paper by American and European artists.
Now, Gagosian Gallery is showing the Summer Show, “a group exhibition featuring work by Tom Friedman, Douglas Gordon, Damien Hirst, Mike Kelly, Jenny Saville, Alec Soth and Franz West chosen for their emphasis on the physical form”
Now, Gagosian Gallery is showing the Summer Show, “a group exhibition featuring work by Tom Friedman, Douglas Gordon, Damien Hirst, Mike Kelly, Jenny Saville, Alec Soth and Franz West chosen for their emphasis on the physical form”
The big blue figure of Tom Friedman is made of Styrofoam. It marks a flexibility of line, wrinkle and exaggerated body proportion. In detail, the eye of the sculpture has a tiny figure, which one can see in his other work. He regularly uses experimental materials. Most his works are based on art and life. Douglas Gordon‘s video blue II (featuring Franz West and Guests) shows the promise of a peaceful summer by hand gestures. Damian Hirst draws a triptych. The Sun, The Moon and The Earth use real butterflies that are metaphors for instability balance of nature and life as well as death. Most of his works have the use of real butterflies and flies. Mike Kelly’s farm girl expresses the themes of Day is Done. Using mixed-media, he represents the untruth of identity and the nature of memory through an incomplete girl’s body. Among the summer show works, Jenny Savalie’s work gives me a strong impression. So I will never forget her impressive vivid color painting. Suspension, It is composed of a slaughtered pig instead of a human figure using . The best part of her paintings are the rough strokes as well as blood and decay of physical world. Alec Soth’ photograph represent a nude, middle age couple. His work Michele and James reflects an unsettled feeling of reality and humanity. His photographs express contradictions of beauty and poverty, anonymity and familiarity. Lastly,Franz West displays his furniture piece, the Divan. His earliest works are mainly sculptures about a subject of adaptiveness. he makes comfortable and colorful furniture for example couch and chairs for viewing art in galleries, museums and public spaces.
Gagosian Gallery is exhibiting unique artist’s works. Although I can not understand their featuredworks enough by the photographs, I would like to comprehend thoroughly all of the displayed works through visiting the gallery.
Gagosian Gallery is exhibiting unique artist’s works. Although I can not understand their featuredworks enough by the photographs, I would like to comprehend thoroughly all of the displayed works through visiting the gallery.
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First of all, I am really interested in different artworks for one theme “physical form”. I thought that it was a kind of project for this exhibition, but it is not. I noticed that the works were gathered from the different years of their works. I think it is good to understand different points of view of the artists.
For me, the most interesting picture of the gallery internet site is the Tom Friedman’s. His works have been made in very different ways and all of them make me want to communicate with the works. Actually I think that all artists in the Summer Show have various ways of expression in terms of materials and method of process. That could be another reason I like this show because I could study further about the artists even though we could see a part of their works. These things might be the attraction of the group exhibition.
The other artists’ works are also interesting. In Jenny Saville’s case, I thought that the figure was the human body at a glance, but it was a pig. This paradoxical painting make me ask the meaning to the artist. Like this, there are so many questions about the works, for example, why the earth only has a diamond shape in Damien Hirst’s work, or what the Californian identity means in Mike Kelly’s work. I just cannot wait for the exhibition. I could find the answer in the gallery tomorrow.
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