Galerie Nathalie Obadia is pleased to organize in France, the second exhibition of Nicola Tyson. The first one took place in 1998.
For more than ten years, Nicola Tyson has been developing a work that is all the more personal because it seems singularly indifferent to massive historical influences as well as to the most widespread plastic tricks and tics. She chose to live in New York in the early 1990s to escape the overheated climate of London. In this new series of paintings, more abstract forms of organic silhouettes appear, very often eroticized. Some of the paintings suggest landscapes, but in fact they are details of body parts.
We find the palette of Nicola Tyson, muted and pale colors with large flat areas. However, the graphism is more and more present in the paintings themselves and give the paintings a more violent side.
In fact, in her paintings, Nicola Tyson is more and more involved in drawing with a discontinuous line to give these hybrid forms. Before her, Rodin and Egon Schiele drew eroticised bodies in the same way. Very organic figures emerge, like the physiological secretions of a form whose every line of the drawing describes the convolutions and humours.
In the painting "Self Portrait", it is clear how Nicola Tyson has drawn his features without lifting the brush, with a great vivacity that gives a lively and acerbic tone to the subject. The cold tones often used for the backgrounds accentuate this impression that is found in all his work.
