TALA MADANI/ FRIDAY 16 NOVEMBER/ VISITS
PAINTING
Madani’s work is characterised by loose expressive brushwork rendered in a bold,
distinctive palette. Rich in narrative and heavy in irony Madani’s paintings depict darkly
comic mise-en-scénes. Whilst her more abstract large-scale works usually contain a
mass, group or collective, Madani’s more descriptive and intimately scaled paintings,
and painterly video animations, depict uncomfortable scenes in which bald, middleaged
men engage in absurd scenarios that fuse playfulness with violence and perversity. She has also started making animations.
After receiving her MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2006, Madani made her
solo debut in 2007. Recent solo exhibitions include Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam
(2011); Manual Man, Pilar Corrias, London (2011). Recent group exhibitions include
He disappeared into complete silence; rereading a single artwork by Louise Bourgeois,
Museum De Hallen, Amsterdam (2011); Speech Matters, Danish Pavilion at the 54th
International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venice (2011); The Great New York, P.S. 1
MoMA, New York (2010); 4th Tirana International Contempoary Art Biennial, Tirana
(2009); Greater New Younger than Jesus, New Museum, New York (2009).
distinctive palette. Rich in narrative and heavy in irony Madani’s paintings depict darkly
comic mise-en-scénes. Whilst her more abstract large-scale works usually contain a
mass, group or collective, Madani’s more descriptive and intimately scaled paintings,
and painterly video animations, depict uncomfortable scenes in which bald, middleaged
men engage in absurd scenarios that fuse playfulness with violence and perversity. She has also started making animations.
After receiving her MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2006, Madani made her
solo debut in 2007. Recent solo exhibitions include Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam
(2011); Manual Man, Pilar Corrias, London (2011). Recent group exhibitions include
He disappeared into complete silence; rereading a single artwork by Louise Bourgeois,
Museum De Hallen, Amsterdam (2011); Speech Matters, Danish Pavilion at the 54th
International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venice (2011); The Great New York, P.S. 1
MoMA, New York (2010); 4th Tirana International Contempoary Art Biennial, Tirana
(2009); Greater New Younger than Jesus, New Museum, New York (2009).
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/greater-new-yorkers-tala-madani/
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/05/artseen/tala-madani-smoke-and-mirrors
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