Jessica Wilson - Boyfriends
Roma Arte in Nuvola 2022 (Nov 23-26) - Monographic Fair Booth - Galleria d'Arte Niccoli - Jessica Wilson - Boyfriends (with Marco Niccoli and Jessica Wilson)
Boyfriends is Jessica Wilson’s challenge to her previous monumental work inspired by Pontormo’s Visitation and exhibited at ArtVerona in October this year: I knew you were trouble when you walked in. The poetics of the 6 x 2-meter canvas presented in Verona is here completely reversed in a series of intimate-looking works displayed in a utopian domestic setting that highlights their sensual dimension.
© Galleria d'Arte Niccoli (photo by Viviana Berti)
These medium-format works bring the seriousness of art history and culture to the plane of irony. This series recalls the masters from which Jessica Wilson transforms her personal poetics: from the Italian Renaissance of Paolo Uccello and Botticelli to the evolution of Minimalism of Ellsworth Kelly and Mary Heilmann, from Abstract Expressionism – to which it is also linked through a “gestural” painting technique – to the primitivism-soaked NeoExpressionism of A. R. Penck and the unconventional sculptures of Franz West. These are the “ancestors” who, with a witty sense of humor, become flirtations, lovers, boyfriends; in this way the apparent aesthetic abstraction of the works immediately becomes fervid figurativeness.
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