An interview with the Mexican artist on the eve of his new show “ECHO” at Galerie Perrotin.
Exhibition
Full article in Modern Painters (October-November 2019).
Full article in Art+Auction (October-November 2019).
Full article in Art+Auction (October-November 2019).
“Bacon always said that what he wanted to do with his work was to celebrate life. When you love life, you integrate all parts of it — even death, even cruelty, it’s all part of life.”
Full article in Modern Painters magazine (September 2019).
Full article in Art+Auction magazine (September 2019).
This question of space — of how something takes up space, deconstructs it or contains it — preoccupied both artists throughout their careers.
In contrast to a long history of erotic representations of female nudes, Pearlstein’s models are not sexualized. Their bodies are not offered up to the viewer’s gaze, but are positioned with a strange sort of nonchalant agency.