Nicole Eisenman has been producing for more than thirty years a prolific work, openly ironic and political, with a provocative and sometimes grotesque character. His practice is inspired by his personal life and imbued with the motives and problems of our contemporary world, such as the question of identity, social conventions or relations of domination.
Evading any anecdotal reference, the artist revisits the history of art while mixing elements of popular culture and counter-culture. Eisenman performs this exercise of blending with virtuosity, bringing forth new pictorial and mental associations that enrich our vision of the present as much as they complicate our view of the past.
More than seventy paintings and drawings by Nicole Eisenman will be presented, offering a panorama of her work since the 1990s. With regard to this large group, almost as many works of modern artists from the early 20th century have been collected; These include works by internationally renowned artists, but also by lesser-known painters who have played an important role in their artistic community in the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland.
Nicole Eisenman (*1965 in Verdun, France, lives and works in New York) was passionate about painting at an early age and graduated in 1987 from the Rhode Island School of Design. The artist practises various mediums, such as drawing, painting or sculpture and develops a formal and iconographic repertoire as precise as personal. Among the most outstanding artists on the American scene today, Nicole Eisenman received the Carnegie Prize in 2013 and the MacArthur Fellowship in 2015 before becoming a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018.
*NICOLE EISENMAN (1965) &
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