Intro
Nicolas Party: Still Life, Stones, and Elephants
Swiss Institute, New York
7 March– 15 April 2012
Content
Hailed as painter, illustrator, and graffiti artist, the praxis of Nicolas Party is an earnest investigation into painting techniques and art historical sources. Party’s intervention brings together wall drawing, sculpture, and painting. The artist has created a brightly-colored, hand-painted pattern connecting Swiss Institute’s lobby to its office and stairwells. The decorative treatment establishes an expansive visual field, interrupted and punctuated by three large-scale, still-life charcoal wall drawings. Combining limitless pattern and traditional motifs, Party re-negotiates the divisions made between public and private space.
