Nicolas Party: Pastel

A new film by Pablo Tapia-Plá for ‘Ursula’ magazine takes a closer look at the artist’s use of a single material, inside his New York studio and La Maison du Pastel in Paris.
Over the last decade, Party, born in Lausanne in 1980, has achieved critical admiration for his familiar yet unsettling reevaluation of the genres of landscape, portraiture and still life, through which he simultaneously celebrates and challenges conventions of representational painting.
Soft pastel is a fragile and ultimately temporal medium that experienced its brief golden age in eighteenth-century France and a revival in the latter part of the nineteenth century, brought about by artists like Degas, Bonnard and Cassatt. Much of Party’s work is created in this somewhat idiosyncratic choice of medium for a 21st-century artist.
Nicolas Party’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, ‘Red Forest,’ is on view at Hauser & Wirth from 30 June - 24 September 2022.
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Hauser & Wirth is an international contemporary and modern art gallery with spaces in Zurich, London, Somerset, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Gstaad, St. Moritz, Monaco and Menorca.
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