Milan, de Cardenas Gallery hosts an exhibition by Chantal Joffe dedicated to women writers

From March 24 to May 7, the De Cardenas Gallery in Milan is hosting the exhibition Writers, which brings together twenty recent works by Chantal Joffe (St. Alban, USA, 1969), a new stage in the American-born painter’s research on women living in London. At the center of this investigation are writers: authors of novels and world best sellers, poets, essayists, journalists, art historians and critics, but also young social writers whom Joffe narrates and interprets on panel and canvas in a series of individual portraits dedicated to those who have made storytelling their work and identity.

Among the protagonists of these new works are authors of all literary genres and declinations of the art and craft of writing: established novelists(Sally Rooney or Hanya Yanagihara, for example), poets such as Annie Freud ( Lucien Freud’s eldest daughter), journalists(Hettie Judah, contributor to The Guardian, Vogue, The New York Times, etc.), essayists such as Anne Boyer(2020 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction). And, again, Katy Hessel, the new anchorwoman of UK-made cultural TV, creator of the highly-followed Instagram page @thegreatwomenartists dedicated since 2015 to women’s art.

Chantal Joffe is internationally known for her fluidly painted portraits in which she manages to capture emotions, weaknesses and the vitality of human existence. Her research has often favored female subjects: little girls, girls and women portrayed in different moments of life and told without expressing judgment but with great élan and participation and a constant transgression from any formal order.

Joffe studied at the Glasgow School of Art and in 1994 received a Master’s Degree from the Royal College of Art in London. He has exhibited in major spaces such as the Foundling Museum, London, UK (2020); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland (2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2018); The Lowry, Salford (2018); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2018, 2017); National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavik (2016); National Portrait Gallery, London (2015); Jewish Museum New York (2015) Jerwood Gallery, Hastings (2015); Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia (2014); Saatchi Gallery, London (2013-2014); MODEM Hungary (2012); Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow (2012); Turner Contemporary, Margate (2011); Neuberger Museum of Art, New York (2009); University of the Arts, London (2007); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2005); Bloomberg Space (2004).

For all information, you can visit Monica De Cardenas’ official website.

Milan, de Cardenas Gallery hosts an exhibition by Chantal Joffe dedicated to women writers

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