JENNY SAVILLE: Continuum

(Flesh) is all things. Ugly, beautiful, repulsive, compelling, anxious, neurotic, dead, alive. – Jenny Saville

Fascinated by the endless aesthetic and formal possibilities that the materiality of the human body offers, Saville remits a highly sensuous and tactile impression of surface and mass in her monumental oil paintings. In the compelling Stare paintings she renders the contours and features of the face and the nuances of skin texture and color in strokes both bold and meticulous. Enlarging the facial features of her human subjects to a vast scale and rendering them in layer upon layer of paint, she imbues in them with a sense of mass and weight that is almost sculptural and at times wholly abstract. Intense pinks, reds, and blues erupt through pale skin tones, disclosing the internal workings of the painting like the flesh and blood of a living organism.  Jenny Saville, who was born in Cambridge, England, will be having her first solo U.S. museum exhibition at the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida later this year. And this september 15 the Gagosian Gallery in New York presents an exhibition, entitled Continuum, of recent paintings and drawings by Jenny Saville.




























    
  


  

  


  


  






  

  


  

  

    

      
        [ON THE RISE] Selebrities
      
    

    

      
    

  


  

  
    











































  

    
  
    


      

      
        

          
        
        

        
          
            
          
        

        
      
        

      

    

  


  







  
Selebrities' slightly overlooked album Delusions, which was released last May on the incredible 'Scandicalifornian' record label Cascine, is a brilliant panorama of alternate musical genres. Their influences blurb on facebook sums it all up: "Long legs, red lipstick, the mystic haze before the TriStar Horse appears, the TriStar horse, the 1980s to the mid 1990s in its entirety. John Hughes. movies, movie montages." Vague, but perfect.  Selebrities, a trio that hails from Brooklyn, has just released a free download of a b-side they couldn't fit on their debut full length album, entitled Surrounded By You. Keep an eye on these kids.
















































  
 
 



























    
  


  

  


  


  






  

  


  

  

    

      
        Joy-Art: Ladislav Sutnar
      
    

    

      
    

  


  

  
    




  




The Czech-American designer Ladislav Sutnar (1897—1976) created many internationally-acclaimed design icons. At the age of 65, he delved into painting. Now on view at Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague, U.S. Venus is the first independent exhibition of Sutnar’s art in forty years and presents his paintings of female nudes never shown before. Sutnar called these works Venus and exhibited them under the label Joy-Art. In this art manifesto, he formulated his concept of art for the 21st century – as vigorous, humanistic and joyful. His geometric figures rendered in contrasting colors reflect American painting of the time, namely Pop Art. U.S. Venus is on view until October 8. 



























    
  


  

  


  


  





  






  

  


  

  

    

      
        [UPCOMING] David Hockney’s Fresh Flowers
      
    

    

      
    

  


  

  
    




  


David Hockney’s Fresh Flowers: Drawings on iPhones and iPads will be on view at the Royal Ontario Museum this October. "The Institute for Contemporary Culture presents the North American debut of this cutting-edge exhibition, which reveals David Hockney’s extraordinary use of this novel new artistic medium and its impact on shaping visual culture today. Hockney is one of the world’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, and Fresh Flowers is his first major show in Canada in over two decades. The exhibition features approximately 200 iPhone and iPad drawings displayed on 20 iPod Touches and 20 iPads." On view October 8 until January 1, 2012.



























    
  


  

  


  


  





  






  

  


  

  

    

      
        [MILAN] Boschi Di Stefano Private Collection
      
    

    

      
    

  


  

  
    




  
The Casa-Museo Boschi Di Stefano houses a small yet amazing collection of over 200 works that were acquired over the course of the lives of the patrons Antonio Boschi and Marieda Di Stefano. A trip through the house is well worth one's time with Marussig, Campigli, Manzoni and Mirandi covering the walls. Casa-Museo Boschi Di Stefano. Via G. Jan, 15 - 20129 Milano, Italia. Text by Lily Harris



























    
  


  

  


  


  






  

  


  

  

    

      
        William Etty: Art and Controversy
      
    

    

      
    

  


  

  
    











































  

    
  
    


      

      
        

          
        
        

        
          
            
          

            

                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                

            

          

        
          
        

        
          
          

            
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William Etty: Dawn of Love, 1828
William Etty's art divided public opinion during the first half of the nineteenth century more than that of any other British artist, with the possible exception of Turner. During his 40-year career he produced a wide variety of landscapes and portraits, but is most famous for his repeated use of the female nude. Many believed that the splendor of his richly colored canvases was designed to disguise his underlying preoccupation with titillating forms of bodily display. Etty was repeatedly encouraged to 'turn from his wicked ways' and make his art 'fit for decent company'. At the same time, one critic declared Etty to be 'the greatest of all our history painters'. Another said the brilliancy of his colors were almost 'too much for human eyes to dwell upon'. He was described as the natural heir of the Old Masters; as 'rivaling Rubens and the great Venetians on their own ground'. An exhibition, entitled William Etty: Art and Controversy, at the York Art Gallery includes more than 100 of Etty's works from Tate, the Royal Academy, the Royal Collection, Russell Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Southampton Art Gallery and Manchester Art Gallery, as well as many works from York Art Gallery. On view until January 22, 2012.



























    
  


  

  


  


  





  





  





  





  






  

  


  

  

    

      
        Selma Hayek at the Gucci Ceremony for Women in Cinema
      
    

    

      
    

  


  

  
    











































  

    
  
    


      

      
        

          
        
        

        
          
            
          

            

                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                

            

          

        
          
        

        
      
        

      

    

  


  







  
68th Venice Film Festival – Tonight MADONNA presented the 2011 Gucci Award for Women in Cinema. Headed by Gucci's creative director FRIDA GIANNINI the jury consisted of the actress ROBIN WRIGHT, actress VALERIA GOLINO, JAMES FRANCO and film journalist GIULIA D'AGNOLO VALLAN. This years award was given to the Tree of Life actress JESSICA CHASTAIN. Photo by ADARSHA BENJAMIN



























    
  


  

  


  


  






  

  


  

  

    

      
        Koto Bolofo: La Maison
      
    

    

      
    

  


  

  
    




  


Koto Bolofo is the first photographer to have been granted unlimited access to the secret workshops of Hermès, the house famous for its leather goods, scarves and other beautiful objects. La Maison, a new book by Steidl, itself an elaborate object comprising eleven volumes and the result of seven years' work, showcases Bolofo's painstaking documentation of the Hermès universe.



























    
  


  

  


  


  






  

  


  

  

    

      
        The Persistence of Collage
      
    

    

      
    

  


  

  
    











































  

    
  
    


      

      
        

          
        
        

        
          
            
          

            

                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                

            

          

        
          
        

        
          
          

            
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Linder: Detail of Untitled, 1978.
The new Arts Council Collection touring exhibition Transmitter/Receiver traces some of the uses of collage in British art from the first influences of the Parisian avant-garde, in the early work of Ben Nicholson and British Surrealists Eileen Agar and Roland Penrose, through to present day practitioners such as Steve Claydon, David Noonan and Idris Khan. Bringing together over 50 works it includes traditional collage on paper, alongside painting, sculpture, film and slide projections, all drawn from the Arts Council Collection. Transmitter/Receiver: The Persistence of Collage is now on view at its first stop at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art in the UK until November 6.



























    
  


  

  


  


  






  

  


  

  

    

      
        Corrine Day: The Face
      
    

    

      
    

  


  

  
    




  


It is testament of Day’s talent as a photographer that she was able to capture an air of informality in her images. Her photographs do not feel staged or posed, and the people she chose to work with do not feel removed from the everyday world. In their familiarity, Day captured the zeitgeist of early 90s Britain. As Sheryl Garrett editor of The Face explained, the magazine “set out a new editorial task of expressing the underground movements of the 90’s. Acid house, ecstasy and the massive, rapid rise of rave culture was the magazine’s inspiration. It felt like a time for smiling rather than pouting, for bright colours and openness and also for something more natural and real - which Corinne Day’s images tapped into very clearly”. Corinne Day’s daring and provocative images burst into collective consciousness through the pages of The Face magazine in the early 1990s. An exhibition Gimpel Fils gallery in London revisits some of Day’s earliest photographs created for The Face, providing an opportunity to assess the on-going artistic legacy of her exceptional vision. On view until October 1.



























    
  


  

  


  


  





  






  

  


  

  

    

      
        Under the Big Black Sun
      
    

    

      
    

  


  

  
    











































  

    
  
    


      

      
        

          
        
        

        
          
            
          

            

                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                

            

          

        
          
        

        
          
          

            
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Film still from experimental filmmaker Bruce Connor's Marilyn Times Five.  As part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time initiative, MOCA Los Angeles will present Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974–1981, on view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA from October 1, 2011 – featuring works by more than 130 artists, this exhibition is the most comprehensive survey to examine the exceptional diversity of art practices in California during the mid- to late 1970s.