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J. Saville ǁǁǁ Branded, 1992

JENNY SAVILLE

Born in 1970, Cambridge, England, lives and works in Oxford.

When Frist curator Mark Scala refers to paint as a medium “uniquely suited to convey the carnal properties of flesh,” he would seem to be thinking of sexuality
overshadowed by the inevitable presence of death. (S. Lawrence on Artnet)

Jenny Saville’s monumental paintings wallow in the glory of expansiveness. Jenny Saville is a real painter’s painter. She constructs painting with the weighty heft of sculpture. Her exaggerated nudes point up, with an agonizing frankness, the disparity between the way women are perceived and the way that they feel about their bodies. One of the most striking aspects of Jenny Saville’s work is the sheer physicality of it. Jenny Saville paints skin with all the subtlety of a Swedish massage; violent, painful, bruising, bone crunching.

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