Nicolas Party - Ali Subotnick

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Résumé :
The first and highly-anticipated monograph on one of the most successful and exciting painters today Swiss-born Nicolas Party?is an artist known? for his color-saturated paintings of everyday objects. He captures the essence of his subjects in surprising ways, heightening their physical and emotional resonance. Fascinated by the power of paint to alter our perception of the built environment and, within a gallery context, how we experience art, Party regularly paints murals, either as stand-alone works or? as carefully orchestrated settings for his work. This is the first book to examine his career? to date and will be a must-read for collectors and followers of the contemporary art scene.?

Biographie:
Interview : Stephane Aquin is the Director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Art. He previously served as Chief Curator of the Smithonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC from 2015 to 2020. He has been a part-time faculty member in the Masters of Fine Art Studio Art program at Concordia University in Montreal since 1996, and has acted as advisor to the acquisition committee of the art collection of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec since 2010. Survey : Stefan Banz (1961-2021) was an artist, curator and writer based in Cully, Switzerland, where he xwas the co(founder and Artistic Director of the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp since 2009. In 1989 he co-founded the Kunsthalle Luzern and served as its artistic director until 1993. From 1994 to 1997, he was the artistic consultant and curator of Hauser & Wirth in Zurich. In 2005 he was curator for the Swiss Pavilion at the 51st Biennale in Venice. A recipient of the Manor Art Prize and the Recognition Award from the City of Lucerne, Banz often collaborated with his partner, artist Caroline Bachmann. Focus : Ali Subotnick is a curator, writer and editor based in Los Angeles. Previously a curator at the Hammer Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles, Subotnick was one of the co-founderof The Wrong Gallery in New York with Maurizio Cattelan and Massimiliano Gioni and a co-curator of the 4th Berlin Biennale in 2006. She has contributed to many exhibition catalogues and writes regularly for magazines such as Artforum and Frieze. Artists's choice . Melissa Hyde is associated professor of art history at the university of Florida in Gainesville. Her work focuses on the art and culture of eighteenth-century France, with particular interests in gender and identity. She is the author of François Boucher : Making up the Rococo (2005) and Nicolas Party : Pastels (2021), and the editor of Art and the Politics of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe (2004). Artist's writings : Some of the ideas and thoughts Nicolas Party has outlined over the years are presented here for the first time in the form of a series of photographs of his sketchpads, illustrating the journey his most successful paintings and sculptures took from conception to realization.

Sommaire:
St?phane Aquin is the Director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.Stefan Banz was an artist, writer and curator based in Cully, where he was the Director of the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp.Melissa Hyde is associate professor of art history at the University of Florida in Gainesville.Ali Subotnick is a writer and curator based in Los Angeles....