{"id":130959,"date":"2023-09-25T18:59:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T18:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=130959"},"modified":"2023-09-25T18:59:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T18:59:43","slug":"nicolas-party-ponders-on-the-end-times-in-new-hauser-wirth-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/lifestyle\/nicolas-party-ponders-on-the-end-times-in-new-hauser-wirth-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Party Ponders on the End Times in New Hauser & Wirth Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"
The end times may dominate the news cycle, but the premonition of the apocalypse is nothing new. Images of great floods, rampant fires, and incessant suffering is riddled within the pages of religious texts and the canons of art history, from Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy<\/em> (1321), J.M.W. Turner’s The Deluge<\/em> (1805) to Nicolas Party‘s latest solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth.<\/p>\n Housed at the gallery’s New York location, Swamp<\/em> creates a bridge between past and present, as the Swiss artist recontexualizes history in his characteristically subversive style. Upon entering, visitors will be immersed by a massive pastel mural depicting a forest fire, a prevalent scene today, where awe and angst sets up the stage for Party’s latest oil-on-copper paintings dedicated to 19th-century French realist painter Rosa Bonheur. \u201cForest fires are one of the most visually striking events of our time,\u201d he told CULTURED<\/em>. \u201cI want the exhibition to have that kind of transcendent quality, rooted in today, but linked to the past. Frightening, but also beautiful.”<\/p>\n