Bawdy and Surreal – Louise Bonnet
“The Hours” is an exhilarating, entrancing and quasi-religious body of work. In this multipronged installation at Gagosian Gallery (uptown) the super-deft dauber/painter Louise Bonnet delivers a hypnotic-erotic tsunami with a surrealist undertow.
She makes grand-scale, pulsating paintings with plenty of alluring elements — medieval manuscripts from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (c. 1412–16), emotional turmoil triggered by the (China-made!) pandemic; rich renaissance references, gushing red blood, and religious imagery merged with Francis Bacon’s creatures of the id, etc.
Louise’s work embodies a visual intensity unlike anything we’ve seen in a while. Her sundry compositions teem with sexless genders, tweaked out human silhouettes and tons of psycho-visual torque, showing a psychic surface and all the freaky tensions festering beneath.
Her art exudes a dense discomfort with the stressors and pressures of modern life — especially pandemic life. Infused with blazing colors, manic-nervous energy and awesome ad hoc artplay, this oeuvre is a darkly lit visual carnival. We love how Louise’s stuff intermingles intriguing abstractions, Freudian symbols, big-ass titties, delirious dreamscapes, and vivid elements of the artist’s inner life.
Put on your body armor and walk by Park and 75th street. The whole shebang is live now in Gagosian’s front window — you don’t even have to go inside. The installation goes until November 7th.
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Photography Louise Bonnet + Gagosian Gallery
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