{"id":7551,"date":"2018-06-12T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=7551"},"modified":"2018-06-05T06:49:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T10:49:37","slug":"jenny-saville-at-gagosian-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/12\/jenny-saville-at-gagosian-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Saville at Gagosian Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most provocative \u2013 and political – of British painter Jenny Saville\u2019s recent canvases remake traditional Christian pieta imagery in a way that both modernizes it and suggests timelessness.\u00a0 In this striking piece titled \u2018Byzantium,\u2019 Mary is replaced by a figure recalling an ancient Greek striding youth \u2013 a kouros \u2013 while her dead son\u2019s reclining body is transparent, as if real flesh gave way to a Gray\u2019s anatomy diagram.\u00a0 Elsewhere in the show, a male parent cradles a lifeless child with a modern war-ravaged city in the background.\u00a0 As the heads in both images overlap heads and feet reappear many times, Saville seems to suggest that history repeats itself with dire consequences.\u00a0 (On view at Gagosian Gallery<\/a>\u2019s 21st<\/sup> Street Chelsea location through July 20th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

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Jenny Saville, Byzantium, oil on canvas, 76 \u00bd x 94 1\/8 inches, 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most provocative \u2013 and political – of British painter Jenny Saville\u2019s recent canvases remake traditional Christian pieta imagery in a way that both modernizes it and suggests timelessness.\u00a0 In this striking piece titled \u2018Byzantium,\u2019 Mary is replaced by a figure recalling an ancient Greek striding youth \u2013 a kouros \u2013 while her dead son\u2019s … <\/p>\n

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