Martin Maloney is today recognized as among Britain's most engaging artists. This first book on the artist illustrates his recent works, Conversation Pieces, a series of large lively and colorful paintings of elastic, cartoon-like figures -- compositions that depict aspects of gay life in London with freshness and irony, offering a real view into transgressive life in the English capital. His portraits of small groups of men -- two or three at most -- in unposed, imperfect moments with unshaved beards and awkward smiles ...
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Martin Maloney is today recognized as among Britain's most engaging artists. This first book on the artist illustrates his recent works, Conversation Pieces, a series of large lively and colorful paintings of elastic, cartoon-like figures -- compositions that depict aspects of gay life in London with freshness and irony, offering a real view into transgressive life in the English capital. His portraits of small groups of men -- two or three at most -- in unposed, imperfect moments with unshaved beards and awkward smiles have the buoyancy and exuberance now characterized as "neurotic realism." As Maloney writes, "These paintings come from the love of the work of other artists.... I have learned a lot from looking at Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Thomas Ruff."
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Fine Condition. Book 47 pages. Paperback. Bright, tight, sharp and clean condition. 24 illustrations in color, 1 black and white photograph of the artist. Text is in Italian and English. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan 16 September-7 November 1998.
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Fine. pp. 47. 36453 shelf. Unread. Slim trade paperback, pictorial covers. Art exhibition catalog, Sept 16-Nov 7, 1998 in Milan, I6taly. No names, clean text. Many color repros.