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Jenny Saville. Gaze
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Edited by: Ralph Gleis, Angela Stief
Artist: Jenny Saville
Texts by: Elisabeth Bronfen, Angela Stief
Graphic Design: Fahnert.koch, Köln
German, English
April 2025, 128 Pages
Hardcover
280mm x 320mm
ISBN: 978-3-7757-6017-1

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In her painterly and graphic oeuvre, the renowned British artist Jenny Saville explores the centuries-old tradition of representing the human body. Her figures occupy an ambiguous zone between idealization and deconstruction. Drawing inspiration from the annals of art history – from Old Masters such as Leonardo and Raphael through to Egon Schiele, Picasso, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, Saville’s painterly practice is characterized by physicality, carnality and the interplay between new and old media. Whether she is depicting history, the bodies of others or indeed her own, her work is always be defined by its defiance of the conventional notions of beauty and ugliness.

As a member of the Young British Artists (YBAs), Jenny Saville (b. 1970 in Cambridge) reinvigorated contemporary figurative painting. Oscillating between figuration and abstraction, she questions representations and perceptions of the human form.
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