Jenny Saville. Gaze 

The exhibition catalog Jenny Saville: Gaze accompanies the artist’s first solo exhibition in Austria, held at the ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna.

This comprehensive volume offers a retrospective insight into Saville’s practice over the last 20 years, while also presenting new works shown for the first time. Saville, associated with the Young British Artists (YBAs), is renowned for her monumental depictions of the human body.

The catalog explores Jenny Saville’s fleshy oil portraits that challenge conventional notions of beauty, while drawing on references to art history from Leonardo and Raphael to Schiele, Picasso, Bacon, and Freud. It highlights themes of corporeality, carnality, intimacy, grief, and devotion expressed through bold painterly techniques, and examines the interplay between historical iconography — Christian, ancient, and Old Masters — and contemporary reinterpretations.