Nicolas Party, Head 2018, 2021

This gorgeous limited edition silkscreen was created on the occasion of the artist's exhibition at the Consortium Museum, "Boilly", titled after the prolific French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845), a painter, engraver and miniaturist known for his portraits, genre scenes, fêtes galantes and caricatures. For this exhibition, Party created a series of murals inspired by Boilly’s works. Their monumentality serves as a setting for Party’s pastels on canvas and his large-scale polychromic sculptures. With this work, Party continues to explore a dialogue between traditional artworks and contemporary art, in a desire to close the gap between sometimes obscure classic genres and a more immediately accessible current aesthetic.