Description
The fantastical universe of Swiss painter Nicolas Party's immersive murals comes to life in this richly illustrated monograph.
The first instalment of the new Contemporary Masters series - a set of monographs spotlighting some of the most influential artists of recent years - focuses on the mural work of celebrated Swiss painter Nicolas Party. His oeuvre ranges from the intimate to the gigantic, spanning from paintings, sculptures, and pietra dura, to the installations and public murals that are this monograph's focus. Often commissioned in the context of institutional exhibitions, Party's mural works are usually removed when the associated show comes to a close. The extensive documentation featured in the book offers a way of revisiting and experience these ephemeral works anew, with newly written texts by the artist about each mural providing intimate access to the thinking that goes into his brightly hued, uncanny universe of fantastical landscapes, characters, and motifs.
The fantastical universe of Swiss painter Nicolas Party's immersive murals comes to life in this richly illustrated monograph.
About the Author
Jamilee Lacy is Executive Director of Frye Art Museum in Seattle.
Born in 1980, the New York-based, Swiss artist Nicolas Party trained at the Lausanne School of Art in Switzerland before receiving his MFA from Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Nicolas Party's early fascination with landscape and the natural world, as well as adopting techniques and ideas that fueled the Renaissance and late 19th-century, early 20th-century painting culminates in his enigmatic visual style where the past informs the present resulting in a captivating, body of androgynous figures and landscapes.
Book Information
ISBN 9783907493205
Author Jamilee Lacy
Format Hardback
Page Count 312
Imprint Hauser & Wirth
Publisher Hauser & Wirth
The first instalment of the new Contemporary Masters series - a set of monographs spotlighting some of the most influential artists of recent years - focuses on the mural work of celebrated Swiss painter Nicolas Party. His oeuvre ranges from the intimate to the gigantic, spanning from paintings, sculptures, and pietra dura, to the installations and public murals that are this monograph's focus. Often commissioned in the context of institutional exhibitions, Party's mural works are usually removed when the associated show comes to a close. The extensive documentation featured in the book offers a way of revisiting and experience these ephemeral works anew, with newly written texts by the artist about each mural providing intimate access to the thinking that goes into his brightly hued, uncanny universe of fantastical landscapes, characters, and motifs.
The fantastical universe of Swiss painter Nicolas Party's immersive murals comes to life in this richly illustrated monograph.
About the Author
Jamilee Lacy is Executive Director of Frye Art Museum in Seattle.
Born in 1980, the New York-based, Swiss artist Nicolas Party trained at the Lausanne School of Art in Switzerland before receiving his MFA from Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Nicolas Party's early fascination with landscape and the natural world, as well as adopting techniques and ideas that fueled the Renaissance and late 19th-century, early 20th-century painting culminates in his enigmatic visual style where the past informs the present resulting in a captivating, body of androgynous figures and landscapes.
Book Information
ISBN 9783907493205
Author Jamilee Lacy
Format Hardback
Page Count 312
Imprint Hauser & Wirth
Publisher Hauser & Wirth
