PHILIPPE PASQUA : PARADISE

[PASQUA, Philippe] ROSENBERG, David - editor

ISBN 10: 8857204669 / ISBN 13: 9788857204666

Published by Skira Editore, Milano, 2010

About this Item

First edition. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Philippe Pasqua, Paintings and Drawings at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2010. Large 4to. (160) pages. Lavishly illustrated in full colour throughout, featuring full page and details of Pasqua's large scale paintings and installations. Original pictorial boards; all edges silver gilt; a few minor scuffs to the back board, and some scratches on front board visible only in certain light; a fine copy. Seller Inventory # 7853

Bibliographic Details

Title: PHILIPPE PASQUA : PARADISE

Publisher: Skira Editore, Milano

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition

Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis:

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.

About the Authors:

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

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