Philippe Pasqua: Paradise

Hardback

Main Details

Title Philippe Pasqua: Paradise
Authors and Contributors      By (author) David Rosenberg
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 280,Width 240
Category/GenreArt and design styles - from c 1960 to now
Painting and paintings
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9788857204666
ClassificationsDewey:759.4
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrated in colour throughout

Publishing Details

Publisher Skira
Imprint Skira
Publication Date 14 June 2010
Publication Country Italy

Description

Self-taught, Philippe Pasqua ("Grasse, 1965") is involved in the current renewal of figurative art. Through his monumental canvases, large in format and loaded with paint, he depicts the human figure with the frankness of realism and the intensity of expressionism, exposing the body in all its states, showing the palpitating flesh to draw out its fascinating beauty. He works with series of portraits around particular themes: anaesthetized patients during surgical operations on sexual organs, children with Down syndrome, infants, impudent adolescents, portraits of transgender figures, and so on. He makes wide use of photography, using its effects (close-up, tilt-up) to fix his models. Philippe Pasque began exhibiting in Paris in the 1990s. Since then, his works have also been on show in galleries in the United States, Hong Kong, Mexico, London, Hamburg, etc.

Author Biography

Henri-Francois Debailleux and David Rosenberg are art critics and curators. Dimitri Ozercov is curator at Hermitage Museum, Moscow.