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The Painter Chantal Joffe Rocks. Her New Solo Show Opens as Part of the Lowry's Biennial in Salford.

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Chantal Joffe rocks. She understands emotions upside down. Mme Joffe understands everything. Her pictorial depictions of the human figures develop into a sometimes raw, sometimes tender, encyclopedia of feelings. Nothing misses her acute eye. Unfinished touches seeking completion by the viewer. It layers the work and carries on in the constant search of the unique. Each member of the public will leave the space with bespoke images imprinted in their brain

 

Joffe displays generosity when making an introduction, and sharing the walls, with the early 1900s German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker. Bringing four works by Modersohn was not an easy task, as she tells me during the interview. Her paintings tend to be in private collections and in high-demand in the current re-discovery frenzy. Modersohn was the first woman to paint a nude self-portrait and many of her works were destroyed by the Nazi regime. Dictatorial governments do not tolerate honesty.

 

Joffe took a journey to Germany with the Art Historian Dorothy Price and their daughters to secure the four works on display in the exhibition. Titled Personal Feeling is the Main Thing is the solo show which was launched last Thursday and will be on until the 2nd of September 2018 at The Lowry, Salford. It is part of the Lowry's Biennial, Week 53, a cross-arts festival. A cornucopia of more than 130 artists in over 66 performances from the 17th to the 28th of May which I highly recommend.

 

Born in 1969, Chantal Joffe lives and works in London. She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art and was awarded the Royal Academy Wollaston Prize in 2006. Joffe has exhibited nationally and internationally at institutional venues including the National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík (2016); National Portrait Gallery, London (2015); Jewish Museum, New York (2015); Jerwood Gallery, Hastings (2015); Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2014 –2015); Saatchi Gallery, London (2013 –2014); MODEM, Hungary (2012); Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow (2012); Turner Contemporary, Margate (2011); Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York (2009); University of the Arts, London (2007); MIMA Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (2007); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2005); Galleri KB, Oslo (2005) and Bloomberg Space, London (2004). Joffe will create a major new public work for the Elizabeth line station at Whitechapel. Titled A Sunday Afternoon in Whitechapel, the work will be on view when the Crossrail station opens in December 2018.

 

For more information about Week 53, please visit their website on www.thelowry.com/Week53

 

For more information about Chantal Joffe, please visit her page on the Victoria Miro gallery www.victoria-miro.com/artists/19-chantal-joffe/

 

Image credits

 

Poppy, Esme, Oleanna, Gracie and Kate, 2014 Oil on canvas 40 x 80 x 3.5 cm 15 3/4 x 31 1/2 x 1 3/8 in © Chantal Joffe. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London / Venice

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