JENNY SAVILLE
Separates, 2001
76(w) x 61(h) cm
10 Colour lithograph.
Edition of 100
Jenny Saville is regarded as one of the leading figures in the YBA collective in the 1990s. Primarily a painter producing enormous canvases of bodies in an unflinching manner, the limited edition lithograph ‘Separates’, published by Eyestorm in 2001, was the first print the artist ever created, and is a self-portrait with her sister, their heads so close they appear almost conjoined.
Based on Saville’s 1999 painting Hyphen, ‘Separates ’ sees Saville discovering a new medium and technique with dynamic brushstrokes, textures and layers. The result is an image that is recognisable as her work, yet distinctly different from the monumental fleshy self-portrait paintings she’s best known for, which explore the human form and the representation of disfiguration or disease of the body as she likens the physicality of paint to the sensation and appearance of skin, constructing often horrifying images of contemporary identity.
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