Nicolas Party
Portrait of a Seahorse Necklace
2021
Encountered via MULTIPLE, Berlin.
Official source: MULTIPLE.
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Nicolas Party
b. 1980, Lausanne, Switzerland · Based in New York, USA & Brussels, Belgium
- MFA, Glasgow School of Art (2009)
- Lausanne School of Art (ECAL, 2004)
- Soft Pastel on Linen
- Monumental Frescoes
- Painted Bronze Sculpture
- Architecture
Nicolas Party is a celebrated Swiss contemporary artist acclaimed for luminous, saturated soft-pastel paintings and site-specific wall murals depicting stylized trees, volcanic mountains, portraits, and fruit still lifes. Drawing on Swiss Symbolism and 19th-century pastel techniques, Party creates theatrical, dreamlike environments of uncanny beauty.
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Artist Nicolas Party: ”You want to create a painting that is much more interesting than yourself.”
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Artist Nicolas Party on how we lose our childhood creativity
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