CHANTAL JOFFE

March 24 - July 29, 2022

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CHANTAL JOFFEWriters24 March – 29 July 2022 We are delighted to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Chantal Joffe. The subjects of these works are critically-acclaimed writers: poets, essayists, art historians, and art critics, alongside young writers who Joffe paints and interprets on board or on canvas in a series of individual portraits of writers who have made the act of writing their work and their identity. Joffe’s portraits depict writers across a variety of literary genres and approaches to literature: Jay Bernard (poet, writer and winner of the Sunday Times Young Writers Award 2020, alongside Ted Hughes Award 2017), Anne Boyer (poet, writer and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize 2020 for non-fiction), Annie Freud (poet, artist, editor and teacher who was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize in 2010), Imogen Greenhalgh (editor and art critic), Katy Hessel (art historian and founder of the instagram blog @thegreatwomenartists), Hettie Judah (writer and art historian), Lauren John Joseph (writer, playright, screenwriter and artist), Nicole Krauss (novelist), Olivia Laing (novelist, art critic and recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction 2018), Patricia Lockwood (poet, writer and finalist for the Booker Prize 2021), Ottessa Moshfegh (novelist, short story writer, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2016), Maggie Nelson (poet, scholar, and nonfiction writer), Sally Rooney (novelist and screenwriter), Hanya Yanagihara (novelist and editor), and Alison White (writer). Joffe is known for her portraits, painted in a fluid style, with which she captures the emotions, weaknesses, and vitality of human existence. Her subjects frequently depict girls, adolescents and women seen in different moments of life. The artist depicts them with a gaze that is halfway between the immediacy of a snapshot and a situation of emphatic distortion. These studies of the human condition express no judgement but appear one after the other with great energy and engagement, also because of the bold rejection of any formal order. The psychological intensity of the figures makes our very opinion ambiguous, disturbing, and gratifying us at the same time. Born in 1969, Chantal Joffe lives and works in London. She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art and was awarded the Royal Academy Woollaston Prize in 2006. She has exhibited in major spaces such as the Foundling Museum, London, UK (2020); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland (2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2018); The Lowry, Salford (2018); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2018, 2017); National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavik (2016); National Portrait Gallery, London (2015); Jewish Museum New York (2015) Jerwood Gallery, Hastings (2015); Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia (2014); Saatchi Gallery, London (2013-2014); MODEM Hungary (2012); Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow (2012); Turner Contemporary, Margate (2011); Neuberger Museum of Art, New York (2009); University of the Arts, London (2007); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2005); Bloomberg Space (2004). Joffe has created a major new public work for the Elizabeth line station at Whitechapel. Titled A Sunday Afternoon in Whitechapel, the work will be on view when the Crossrail station opens in Spring 2022.

CHANTAL JOFFEWriters24 marzo – 29 luglio 2022 Siamo lieti di annunciare una mostra di nuovi dipinti di Chantal Joffe. I soggetti di queste opere sono scrittrici e scrittori acclamati dalla critica: poeti, saggisti, storici dell'arte e critici d'arte, accanto a giovani professionisti che Joffe dipinge e interpreta su tavola o su tela in una serie di ritratti individuali a celebrare personalità che hanno fatto dell'atto della scrittura il loro lavoro e la loro identità. I ritratti di Joffe ritraggono scrittori attraverso una varietà di generi letterari e approcci alla letteratura: Jay Bernard (poeta, scrittore e vincitore del Sunday Times Young Writers Award 2020 e del Ted Hughes Award 2017), Anne Boyer (poetessa, scrittrice e vincitrice del Premio Pulitzer 2020 per la saggistica), Annie Freud (poetessa, artista, editor e insegnante che è stata candidata al TS Eliot Prize nel 2010), Imogen Greenhalgh (redattrice e critica d'arte), Katy Hessel (storica dell'arte e fondatrice del blog instagram @thegreatwomenartists), Hettie Judah (scrittrice e storica dell'arte), Lauren John Joseph (scrittrice, drammaturga, sceneggiatrice e artista), Nicole Krauss (romanziera), Olivia Laing (romanziera, critica d'arte e destinataria del Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction 2018), Patricia Lockwood (poetessa, scrittrice e finalista per il Booker Prize 2021), Ottessa Moshfegh (romanziera, scrittrice di racconti, in lista per il Booker Prize 2016), Maggie Nelson (poetessa, studiosa e scrittrice di saggistica), Sally Rooney (romanziera e sceneggiatrice), Hanya Yanagihara (romanziera ed editor), e Alison White (scrittrice). Joffe è nota per i suoi ritratti, dipinti con uno stile fluido, con cui cattura le emozioni, le debolezze e la vitalità dell'esistenza umana. I suoi soggetti raffigurano spesso ragazze, adolescenti e donne viste in diversi momenti della vita. L'artista li ritrae con uno sguardo che è a metà strada tra l'immediatezza di un'istantanea e una situazione di distorsione enfatica. Questi studi sulla condizione umana non esprimono alcun giudizio ma appaiono uno dopo l'altro con grande energia e impegno, anche per l'audace rifiuto di qualsiasi ordine formale. L'intensità psicologica delle figure rende ambigua la nostra stessa opinione, disturbandoci e gratificandoci allo stesso tempo. Nata nel 1969, Chantal Joffe vive e lavora a Londra. Ha conseguito un MA al Royal College of Art e nel 2006 ha ricevuto il Woollaston Prize della Royal Academy. Ha esposto in istituzioni importanti come il Foundling Museum, Londra, Regno Unito (2020); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edimburgo, Scozia (2019); Whitechapel Gallery, Londra (2018); The Lowry, Salford (2018); Royal Academy of Arts, Londra (2018, 2017); National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavik (2016); National Portrait Gallery, Londra (2015); Jewish Museum New York (2015) Jerwood Gallery, Hastings (2015); Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia (2014); Saatchi Gallery, Londra (2013-2014); MODEM Ungheria (2012); Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow (2012); Turner Contemporary, Margate (2011); Neuberger Museum of Art, New York (2009); University of the Arts, Londra (2007); Royal Academy of Arts, Londra (2005); Bloomberg Space (2004). Joffe ha creato una nuova grande opera pubblica per la stazione della linea Elizabeth a Whitechapel. Intitolata A Sunday Afternoon in Whitechapel, l'opera sarà visibile quando la stazione Crossrail aprirà nella primavera del 2022.

Press Release _ Chantal Joffe Text by / Testo di Marina Dacci