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GEORGE SOWDEN E NATHALIE DU PASQUIER

George Sowden e Nathalie du Pasquier:
George Sowden e Nathalie du Pasquier, 2008
DESCRIPTION
Product Name:George Sowden e Nathalie du Pasquier
Product TypePAINTING
INTRODUCTION by ALESSANDRO MENDINI

(Milanese Portraits) by Nuala Goodman is truly an extraordinary project, the fruit of great skill, constancy and coherence. Nuala has selected her portrait subjects with care; they are men and women with whom she feels affinity, friends and people she admires. All of them are part of her world, the design world. Because they are people she knows, they are susceptible to being portrayed not only in their outward appearance, but also, and especially, in their intimate state of mind, in the way they feel.

One by one, or in couples, her chosen subjects were photographed, analyzed and then very slowly painted. The process took several years, and progress on the series came about little by little, with Nuala steeped in a mental aura that is the opposite of the hard velocity of a design project. That is why all these figures seem softly veiled, as if wrapped in a faraway and protective space that connects and submerges all of them.

It’s a textural space that decoratively invades the whole surface of each painting, from the outline of the faces and figures outward, and with different characteristics each time. From these surfaces, emerge Nuala’s world, her experience, her training in Dublin, and her steadfast fidelity to her well-defined poetry and sensitivity, even after her variegated exposure to Milan. So there is Ireland, and there are affectionate accents of Indian iconography, too. And indeed, the Ritratti Milanesi exude her contemplation on all these references, and the brushstrokes that generate faces, eyes, lips and skin obediently abide by this precise style as they congregate and converge toward the identification of the characters.

The result is a series of distinct personal descriptions that are sometimes delicate and friendly, sometimes a bit harsh or even tough, in which each person is called upon to recognize themselves in an imaginative mixture of seriousness, irony, caricature and hieratic hallucination. In the portraits of couples, perturbing impressions are added to this melange.

This concludes the cycle of Milanese friends, in which Nuala has invested meticulousness and concentration, much time, affection and isolation. And we, the portrayed, are grateful to her for having chosen us as participants in this very special pictorial saga, at this moment when hand-painted canvases are turning out to be the expressive medium of new topical interests.

Alessandro Mendini March 2008

"This current series of paintings came about as a result of painting a portrait of Ettore Sottsass in 2004.

All the people I’ve chosen to paint work in creative fields - design, architecture and fashion, and they all possess a charisma, a sort of iconic quality which I’m trying to capture in these portraits.

The paintings are all 80 x 100cm, painted in acrylic and directly figurative up to a point, then I add decorative elements, using devices such a velvet flock. These portraits represent a kind of personal catalogue of figures from the Milan design world"

Nuala Goodman

DESIGNER
Designed:2008
DesignerNUALA GOODMAN
Nuala Goodman born in Dublin in 1962. Studied Fine Art (Painting) at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Has lived in Milan since 1984 Has always made art that combines elements of fashion, design and painting Projects include:The Irish Chair-1988/90, in collaboration with James Howett Painted Boxes (Alessi)-1993 "Eve" watch (Swatch)-1995 Textile design (Fantoccoli,Miroglio)-1984/1990 In 1996 co-founded the "I+I", a small company that designs objects and textiles wich largely produced in India, using traditional artisan manufacturing techniques In 2004 returned to painting.
CompanyNUALA GOODMAN

ADDITIONAL DETAILS
Material(s)ACRYLIC, CANVAS, VELVET FLOCK
Dimensions31.5" X 39.37"

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Price$9,000.00
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