Nicolas Party
∗1968, Switzerland
lives and works in Bruxelles, Belgium and New York, USA
Nicolas Party (*1980, Switzerland) is a figurative painter who has achieved critical admiration for his familiar yet unsettling landscapes, portraits, and still lives that simultaneously celebrate and challenge conventions of representational painting. His works are primarily created in soft pastel, an idiosyncratic choice of medium in the 21st century, and one that allows for exceptional degrees of intensity and fluidity in his depictions of objects both natural and manmade. Transforming these objects into abstracted, biomorphic shapes, Party suggests deeper connections and meanings. His unique visual language has coalesced in a universe of fantastical characters and motifs where perspective is heightened and skewed to uncanny effect.
Besides his paintings, the artist also realises wall paintings for public spaces, pietra dura, ceramics, installation works und painted sculptures as colourful androgynous figures in different scales, turning the conventional perspective on its head.
At the Sala Trenker exhibition, Party exhibited a large-size pastel work showing a tree that echoes the imagery of wall tapestries. Like the Biennale Gherdëina explores the creation of possible worlds, Nicolas Party in his work playfully resorts to fantasies relating to nature and captures them on canvas.
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