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Which art books, prints and posters are available by and about this artist? Here is a sample of items of interest to a typical collector:
Jenny Saville (born 1970 in Cambridge, England) is a renowned contemporary British painter celebrated for her monumental, visceral depictions of the human form. She first gained international acclaim in the 1990s as a leading figure among the Young British Artists, distinguishing herself through a devotion to traditional oil painting at a time when conceptual art dominated the movement.
Her work features heavy, tactile layers of paint that vividly depict flesh, volume, and bodily imperfection, offering an uncompromising female perspective on traditional concepts of beauty and body politics. To capture the texture and structure of tissue with precision, Saville famously studied plastic surgery procedures and medical cadavers during her formative years. Her 1992 degree exhibition sold out instantly, catching the eye of collector Charles Saatchi, who famously bought her output and helped propel her career forward. Today, she is widely credited with helping reinvigorate classical figurative painting for the 21st century, and her works are held in prestigious museum collections worldwide, including MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Broad.
The BSS collection is primarily interested in her photographic work, such as her collaboration with Glen Luchford, Closed Contacts in 2002.
After having observed the operations of reconstructive surgery and aesthetic surgery, acclaimed figurative painter Jenny Saville was eager to express the violence and anesthetized pain of this experience in her own work. She and fashion photographer Glenn Luchford thus began an artistic collaboration that captures the full range of color, tonality, and topography of live flesh, in large photographic tableaux that portray Saville's own body. Distortions confront and coerce the viewer into an examination of his or her own body and the grotesqueries and beauties inherent within; the images likewise recall biological specimens preserved, disembodied, and disfigured. The collusion of the art and fashion worlds has produced many hybrids in recent years, yet none perhaps none as intensely striking as this series.