The Broad
Los Angeles, USA
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"The first major Saville survey on the West Coast centers her painterly mass as a feminist argument against the idealized figure."
The Broad presents a focused survey of Jenny Saville's large-scale paintings and drawings from the 1990s to the present, drawn from private collections and the Saatchi holdings. Curated thematically around collision, maternity, and the surgical gaze, the exhibition positions Saville's work in dialogue with Bacon, Rubens, and historical anatomy plates. A new diptych, commissioned for the show, confronts the choreography of the operating theater. Through these three interwoven lenses, visitors can trace Saville's sustained engagement with the body as a site of pressure, vulnerability, and transformation. Her monumental canvases render flesh with both intimacy and intensity, inviting close looking and reconsideration of figuration's possibilities. By placing her paintings alongside precedents from art history and medical imagery, the exhibition offers a distinctive context for understanding one of contemporary painting's most distinctive voices.
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