Jenny Saville

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 "Far from comforting" are words often used to described the work of an outstanding young British painter, Jenny Saville, whose work is also on view in Rome just now. The opening night at MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporaneo Roma http://www.macro.roma.museum/english/exhibitions/index.htmlmarked Saville's first showing in Rome, and proved as interesting for the faces of the viewers taking in the provocative, often disturbing, images on the walls: transexuals, gigantic faces displaying wounds, or the traces of beatings, or perhaps surgery; a portrait of Saville and her sister facing us like a strange two-headed child, but always a tenderness in the moment of capture. A corpse of a pig, its teats alone painted so deftly that one art critic, a long-time fan who had travelled from Milan to see her work for the first time, was left gasping beside me: "Like Velasquez".

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Saville also stands apart from most of her contemporaries in that she is first and foremost a painter. She works on a huge scale, producing vast and at times overwhelming canvases with the human body as the main subject. Using oils, she makes highly pigmented work, employing a gorgeous palette that conveys the effect of creamy, liquid skin poured directly onto the canvas. The brushwork is very dynamic and pleasing to the eye; the skin has a substantial, juicy quality to it. 

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