The UK artist Jenny Saville will present beforehand unseen works in Venice subsequent yr, as a part of a serious exhibition highlighting her hyperlinks to the famed Italian metropolis.
The present on the Worldwide Gallery of Fashionable Artwork at Ca’ Pesaro (28 March-22 November 2026) will function round 30 works in whole, all relationship from the final 30 years (Saville plans to point out an unseen cycle created in homage to the lagoon metropolis). The exhibition, which can embrace works from non-public and public collections, coincides with the 61st Venice Biennale (9 Might-22 November 2026).
Saville says in an announcement: “Venice represents a spot the place artwork is an intrinsic a part of on a regular basis life and the place the Biennale artists of immediately sit in dialogue with these nice Venetian artworks. It’s an ideal honour to have the chance to exhibit in Venice.”
An exhibition assertion provides: “Saville’s apply is deeply rooted within the historical past of portray and at Ca’ Pesaro her monumental canvases interact in dialogue with the good painters of the previous current in Venice, creating a novel encounter between up to date portray and the town’s creative heritage.”
A serious survey of Saville’s work launched on the Nationwide Portrait Gallery in London earlier this yr. The Anatomy of Portray, which opened in June, traced Saville’s apply from the Nineteen Nineties to the current day.
Requested on the time about her relationship with artwork historical past, Saville informed The Artwork Newspaper: “I believe for all up to date painters who have a look at Outdated Masters, the Outdated Masters are up to date to them. You solely need to go and see the Titian room on the Nationwide Gallery [in London], it’s simply sensational.”
Saville has additionally obtained market acclaim, together with breaking the public sale file for a dwelling feminine artist in 2018 when her self-portrait Propped (1992) offered for £9.5m (with charges) at Sotheby’s in London.
