Jenny Saville | Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Simon Schama, and the Aaron Diehl Trio | Gagosian Premieres

Jenny Saville celebrates her exhibition "Elpis" at Gagosian New York with painter Nathaniel Mary Quinn and historian Simon Schama, with a performance by the Aaron Diehl Trio, who will play music by Philip Glass as well as a new composition inspired by the work on view.
In her new series of monumental portraits, Saville explores the human face and body, producing bold and sensuous impressions of surface, line, and mass. Painting from photographs, she magnifies individual features, employing expressive brushstrokes to create dramatic juxtapositions of color and light that recall Byzantine icons and mosaics. Titled after the ancient Greek personification of hope left behind in Pandora’s box, the paintings in "Elpis" are grounded in tangible reality while reaching toward myth.
In this episode, Quinn takes viewers on a walkthrough of Saville’s exhibition, sharing his enthusiasm for the craft of painting and the power of the artist’s vision. With Schama, Saville explores the broader cultural context of her work. And the Aaron Diehl Trio performs the composer’s Études nos. 2 and 16-compositions selected by Saville as communicating a vitality and uplift that resonates with her own practice-as well as “Prism,” a new piece written by Diehl in response to Saville’s paintings.
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Artwork © Jenny Saville. Video: Little Dot Studios
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[@majdiosman]

Nathaniel Mary Quinn needs his own show. Enjoyed this v much. Thanks!

[@petalparker5]

I've to returned to this vid a few times now it's damn near perfect combination of art poetry philosophy instruction and commentary. A very pleasant 20 min excursion from the daily mundane monotony.

[@austinwaddell9646]

for those who want to skip the dribble Russian Poetry Inspo 0:00 to 1:54 Inspiration of the rough form From Michelangelo 3:24 to 4:33 A little info on the model and Saville's favourite aspects of 'shasa' 4:56 to 5:52 Philip Glass's music and what Saville takes away from his work 6:48 to 7:13 How Jenny creates the bases of her work 8:32 to 9:48 How jenny loosens up her style when beginning new works 9:58 to 10:15 Pointless small talk for the interviewer to seem enlightened 10:51 to 11:05 info on 'Second nature' and the ways in which jenny has used paint 12:08 to 12:30 Inspiration Jenny has taken from the life around her 12:35 to 12:48 small talk on the inspiration taken from Rembrandt in the work 'Meridian' 14:10 to 14:25 The emotion jenny hopes to convey/ achieve in her new work 14:52 to 14:59 "..." "..." 15:28 to 15:48 and then you can stop watching. saving yourself 12 minutes and 18 seconds of your life from a perfect example of 'get to the bloody point'

[@parisasun2541]

SOO Excellent ! So good to watch such intelligent, authentic video about art, music, poetry. I loooooved it . Starving for this kind of communication .

[@zeljkasimic2464]

Beautiful program and music very nice way to present excellent painters

[@cinereus3601]

Very grateful for this video. Thanks a lot ❤️

[@mlhproductions]

Fun. And interesting. Thank you.

[@HildosAbla]

Amazing work! Love how she eloquently describes her work 🙌🏼

[@milootje007]

Well, this blew me away.

[@MissAuthor01]

Gosh I love this. Thank you. I can't tell what I love more, how Saville paints flesh or talks about painting flesh.

[@codiemiller7574]

or out of or mind

[@jgalcantara850]

A fantastic painter and wonderful use of the materials. But love her full figures best.

[@po4146]

amazing video Gagosian

[@Kontorgh_art]

Amazing body of work.

[@graysimpson]

Incredible work, beautifully presented. Thanks 🙏

[@christineludlam4170]

What a relief that a woman painter is approved of by so many men,and they can all explain it to us ,in case we dont get it with our eyes.

[@brambroccoli4414]

Awesome! Great inspiration coursing through me right now. Not just from Jenny, but also from what the host had to say about her art and the playing of the band as well :D

[@user-sp1oz7uj4u]

Bravo for the editor 🧡

[@julianjohnson7974]

Such a breathtaking exhibition

[@carmostudio]

Sublime!

[@shannonmakes9334]

i love his enthusiasm while he describes her work!

[@metislamestiza3708]

i'm really pleased this came up in my algorithm.

[@johnsmith4071]

Who decided these were renowned? They look like some artist from Etsy

[@lauraandres1182]

She is absolutely amazing

[@helentonic]

Great paintings and interpretation. Not sure why you used Philip Glass music. Surely Shelley Hirsch improvising to the paintings would have been great? But this series of films are brilliant.

[@5379jj]

this video is AWESOME !

[@steveb2145]

excellent,,but why do we have to listen to people trying to be intellectual,Jenny Saville and Simon Schama is plenty enough. dont ruin that.

[@beasoderbergmusic]

Incredible! And I'm especially in awe of how you painted a self-portrait in an eye!

[@cinereus3601]

Beautiful

[@minwoonam1648]

"When something really is convincing, I don't think about how they are done" - Lucian Freud I wonder what he would have said to these paintings if he was still alive ...

[@Cinamrol102]

1¹

[@Cinamrol102]

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[@carolmcbrideonline]

beautiful! are the musicians performing IN the gallery?

[@artandsoulartgallerybookst88]

Brilliant.

[@dacsurlap]

GOOD ART

[@ScottishArtsTrust]

Totally stunning....

[@dacsurlap]

너무너무 좋은 작품.

[@flipmcdonought5835]

“... you obviously have, like, Michelangelo ...”.

[@christianegonbarnthaler1426]

super art

[@mrgitaliano6765]

Pure ASMR very enjoyable, pity about her name though very unfortunate.

[@johnmcauley7856]

Is she related to jimmy savile

[@davidmcclur]

words. words about visual art. inadequate and worse.. misleading. stand in front of the painting--in person--feel it. no referential descriptions. nevertheless, of course one does appreciate... his APPRECIATION.

[@xavierrhodes-elliott9854]

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[@georgesears923]

Jenny Saville is incredibly overrated. She's really an illustrator, making dull photo realistic paintings with more viscous pigment. These new portraits look like kitschy student Art. Nathaniel Mary Quinn's own work is far more interesting.

[@AidenCassaroArt]

I don't LOVE her work myself (I LIKE it, cuz it's obv good), but tbh your comment sounds like jealousy, I don't like saying bad things about someone's art, cuz I feel like people who do that, are either egotistical and think that they are better (which means that they definitely suck, and maybe they tried drawing but were never good as a kid and so took the "abstract" route) OR they romanticize art to the point where it becomes a religion. I paint, it's paint on canvas, that's it. We gotta stop intellectualizing art. A splash of paint isn't a comment on life or death blah blah, and a painting of a woman is a two dimensional illusion of a three dimensional form on a flat surface, it's kinda like magic, that's what it is. The subjects can mean something, sure, but cmon. Sure her work looks OK, I agree with you on that. But, it's not bad. I live in New York, go to any gallery if you wanna see bad art skills lol or go to any art school. I've never had an art Professor who had ANY skill. The Professors teaching how to draw, cannot draw. The professors teaching how to paint, cannot paint. So, when I see some skill or talent, I appreciate it, instead of shitting on it. Cuz tbh that's what those art professors do, and that's cuz they cannot do it themselves. I hope you're talented, then my point won't apply to you. But, I do agree, her work is not that great, but it is still great. And that's not even photo realism, I don't agree with you on that, it's impressionistic realism, with a lot of abstraction. Nonetheless, it's great work, she isn't doing something that's easy.

[@senedsemere1681]

Ik!?p

[@senedsemere1681]

Mmm m

[@erikbergman4483]

Agree

[@geostk3659]

Agree yes, is illustration.

[@AlexandreWoelffel]

"Jenny Saville is one of the greatest living figurative painters" ahah, so you know all the painters in the world? Stop storytelling :p Dudes, you know how art world works... ;)

[@falkofantastic9097]

The guy with the red hat ran out of ways to say 'she splattered the paint'

[@reybeloart]

Temática "batida"

[@sduncanfoto]

"that's her thang"

[@touchmantouchman350]

👁️👁️😘

[@djedjejejri7357]

Sisisisisisi

[@cantagiousca5220]

A load of rubbish

[@bodeaalex1142]

They look like mall paintings. Maybe because they are so many imitating her, the style turned against her.

[@skoruno1]

Kitsch

[@dericaweatherby8740]

Hi

[@cantagiousca5220]

I care nothing of the black man

[@radicalthoughts]

He’s cares nothing for you

[@cantagiousca5220]

@@radicalthoughts well then we are even and happy then party on

[@senedsemere1681]

Jlm.k

[@djedjejejri7357]

Ksoaoaozoziao

[@gabrielaaguilar3612]

! B

[@paulmactavish3355]

Eclectic fresh, humility, measure of i,lacks *((**

[@mariapotova1482]

🐽

[@mariapotova1482]

Uuuiiuuui89

[@geostk3659]

Am so sorry Jenny but this is not painting, this is illustration (like the pictures in some old magazines). Most of the people are amateurs or just art lovers and they dont know what is what. You know the differences right? PS. Dont waste so many good oil colors (i see lots of Harding, Old Holland Winsor etc) send some of those to us dear. PS 2 (Nathaniel go to art school again, you dont know nothing about art but you are good in public relation).

[@donDonau]

The best painters are KZbin writers.

[@TheNaty1125]

Beautiful

[@wildebeast]

What a load of crap

[@jrbartattheelms3457]

Beautiful