Description: Hardcover first edition 2002 Gagosian catalog for the Jenny Saville & Glen Luchford 'Closed Contact' exhibition in Beverly Hills. Issued without dust jacket. Some condition issues - light soiling, taps to corners, and a couple of pages that were stuck together and suffered minor damage, please see photos, price reflects this. The images offer, not a story, but an experience that begins in visceral uneasiness and gradually shifts to a haunted serenity. The discomfort is complicated. It is triggered partly by our sense of the instantaneous monstrosity of a normal human transformed by the spreading of the shape beyond what we understood as normal.—Katherine Dunn, from the exhibition catalogueGagosian is pleased to present the photographic series Closed Contact (1995–96). This collaboration between painter Jenny Saville and fashion photographer/filmmaker Glen Luchford confronts and challenges conceived notions of feminine beauty. The collusion of the art and fashion worlds has produced many hybrids in recent years, yet none perhaps as intensely striking as this series. In this body of work, the artists have created a new form of self-portraiture, using Saville as the model.After observing operations of reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, Saville was eager to express the violence and anesthetized pain of this experience in her own work. Luchford and Saville began an artistic collaboration that captures the full range of color, tonality, and topography of live flesh in large photographic tableaux. Distortions confront and coerce the viewer into an examination of one’s own body and the grotesqueries and beauties inherent within. The images also recall biological specimens preserved, disembodied, and disfigured.The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by acclaimed writer Katherine Dunn.
Price: 195 USD
Location: Solana Beach, California
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Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 60 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: First Edition
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Literary Movement: Realism
Era: 2000s
Illustrator: Jenny Saville
Personalized: No
Features: Illustrated
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Book Title: Jenny Saville and Glen Luchford : Closed Contact
Item Length: 15.5in.
Item Width: 11in.
Author: Katherine Dunn
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Individual Artists / General
Publisher: Gagosian Gallery
Publication Year: 2002
Genre: Art
Item Weight: 34.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 48 Pages
