Nicolas Party
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Nicolas Party (born July 1, 1980) is a Swiss visual artist. He lives and works in New York City and Brussels. He is known for his multi-media interdisciplinary immersive exhibitions.
Biography
He received his BFA degree from the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne in 2004 and his MFA from the Glasgow School of Art, in Glasgow, Scotland in 2009.{{Cite web |title=UESHIMA MUSEUM COLLECTION |url=https://www.ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/230 |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=アーティスト詳細 {{!}} UESHIMA MUSEUM COLLECTION}}{{Cite web |title=Nicolas Party |url=https://ecal.ch/en/school/network/people/nicolas-party/ |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=ECAL - École cantonale d'art de Lausanne |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL) |url=https://www.lausanne-tourisme.ch/en/explore/lausanne-university-of-art-and-design-ecal/ |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=Lausanne Tourisme}}
Party's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, the Magritte Museum in Brussels,{{Cite web |last=Bisello |first=Piero |date=June 1, 2018 |title=Does site specific painting exist? Nicolas Party questions René Magritte |url=https://www.conceptualfinearts.com/cfa/2018/06/01/does-site-specific-painting-exist-nicolas-party-questions-rene-magritte/}} the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum.{{Cite web|url=https://patronmagazine.com/stroll-through-the-immersive-work-of-nicolas-party-at-the-dma/|title=STROLL THROUGH THE IMMERSIVE WORK OF NICOLAS PARTY AT THE DMA | Patron Magazine|first=Shelby|last=Gorday|date=August 18, 2016|website=patronmagazine.com}}{{Cite web |title=Nicolas Party: Draw the Curtain |work=Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian |url=https://hirshhorn.si.edu/exhibitions/nicolas-party-draw-the-curtain/}} For his second exhibition at the Hirshorn Museum which ran from September 18, 2021 until the spring of 2022 he created his largest work to date Draw the Curtain, it "wraps 360 degrees around the temporary scaffolding that encases the Museum building and spans a circumference of 829 feet". It is an "original pastel painting digitally collaged and printed onto scrim". Party’s exhibition "When Tomorrow Comes" at the Museum Frieder Burda is the Swiss artist’s first museum presentation in Germany.{{Cite web |title=Süße Endzeit {{!}} Monopol |url=https://www.monopol-magazin.de/nicolas-party-frieder-burda-suesse-endzeit |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=www.monopol-magazin.de |language=de}} Party' primary medium of choice is pastel.{{cite web | url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/nicolas-party-studio-visit-2069372 | title=See Inside Artist Nicolas Party's New York City Studio, Where Each of His 2,455 Pastels Has Its Own Cubby | date=8 February 2022 }}
Party is represented by Hauser & Wirth, The Modern Institute, Kaufmann Repetto, Gregor Staiger, Karma and Xavier Hufkens. In February 2020 he had his first solo exhibition, "Scottsboro" with Hauser & Wirth at their Los Angeles, California venue.
In 2017 he had his first solo exhibition, "Three Season" with Xavier Hufkens.{{Cite web |title=Nicolas Party — KARMA |url=https://karmakarma.org/artists/nicolas-party/bio/}}https://karmakarma.org/artists/nicolas-party/bio/
Among the artists Party cites as having influenced his painting are Rosalba Carriera, Félix Vallotton, Milton Avery, Pablo Picasso, and Giorgio Morandi.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201710/nicolas-party-72496|title = Annie Godfrey Larmon on Nicolas Party| date=December 2017 }}
Party's landscapes often draw from or even directly cite styles and motifs from a diverse set of contemporary painters and painters of previous generations, including Salvo, a similarity picked up at a number of exhibitions.{{Cite web |title=SALVO. Autoritratto come Salvo {{!}} MACRO Museum |url=https://www.museomacro.it/polyphony/salvo-autoritratto-come-salvo/ |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=www.museomacro.it |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Four Landscapes by Nicolas Party {{!}} Swiss Re Art |url=https://www.swissre.com/about-us/art-at-swiss-re/artworks/c-party-KB1211-four-landscapes.html |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=www.swissre.com |language=en}}
Bibliography
- Stéphane Aquin, Nicolas Party: Mauve Twilight, 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2022
- Stéphane Aquin, Stefan Banz, Ali Subotnick, Melissa Hyde, Nicolas Party, Phaidon, London, 2022
- Louis Fratino, Glenn Fuhrman, Loie Hollowell, Dodie Kazanjian, Billy Sullivan, Robin F. Williams, Melissa Hyde, Nicolas Party: Pastel, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, 2021
- Tobia Bezzola, Francesca Bernasconi, Michele Robecchi, Nicolas Party: Rovine, Museo d'Arte della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, 2021