![]() Paintings and sculptures throughout this new series depict flora and fauna particularly associated with processes of growth and metamorphosis, including butterflies, frogs, and flowers, to suggest themes of evolution as they relate to Party’s own practice and reflections on human history. In a latter-day parallel, Nicolas Party’s ‘Portrait with Mushrooms’ (2019) merges his own figure with augmented mushrooms in rich, woody hues, reconsidering sottobosco in a contemporary context. With the sottobosco, Marseus abandoned the familiar comfort of a domestic setting and placed the viewer among a menagerie of strange creatures and wild flora. Influenced by the scientific zeitgeist, Marseus directed his gaze downward, toward the often-overlooked forest floor up to eye level, capturing its dense universe with exacting detail. The sottobosco still life, made famous by Dutch artist Otto Marseus van Schrieck, is closely tied to scientific developments of the 17th-century Dutch Golden Age, when the invention of the microscope ignited a fascination with all things miniscule. In 2019, the artist was awarded the RxArt commission to create a 207-foot-long mural for the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, scheduled for completion in 2020. ‘Sottobosco’ follows Party’s major mural commissions for the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA (2016) and the Dallas Museum of Art (2016), and solo exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC (2017) and The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2019). ![]() Through his unique lens on universal forms, Party detects surprising connections between seemingly disparate worlds – nature, science, the art historical canon – and invites his viewer to consider alternate realities. This Italian word for the undergrowth of a forest also denotes the sub-genre of still life painting devoted to botanical and zoological life in nature’s darker regions. With the new works on view at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, he further explores this binary through what Italians call sottobosco. Comprised of new paintings, sculptures, site-specific murals, and an architectural installation, ‘Sottobosco’ conjures the shadowy world of the forest floor in a brilliant pastel universe where subject, form, and time collapse in visual splendor.īest known for his unique approach to landscapes, portraits, and still life scenes created in pastel, Party directs his idiosyncratic choice of medium toward otherworldly depictions of objects both natural and manmade. ![]() –– Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file.īeginning 13 February 2020, Hauser & Wirth will debut ‘Sottobosco,’ the first LA solo exhibition for critically admired NY-based Swiss artist Nicolas Party. In this video, Nicolas Party provides us with an introduction to his exhibition that is on show in the south gallery of Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles. With the new works, he explores the sub-genre in Dutch still life paintings called Sottobosco. Nicolas Party is best known for his unique approach to landscapes, portraits, and still life scenes created in pastel. ![]() At Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, the New York-based artist presents new paintings, sculptures, site-specific murals, and an architectural installation. “Sottobosco” is the title of Swiss artist Nicolas Party’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.
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