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all images © NICOLAS PARTY

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With painting as his main activity, NICOLAS PARTY works with the theme of very simple, everyday objects that magically come to life onto different surfaces – paper, canvas, walls and objects. Hailed as painter, illustrator, and graffiti artist, the praxis of Swiss artist NICOLAS PARTY is an earnest investigation into painting techniques and art historical sources.

These objects tend to lose all the connotations of meaning, displaying themselves in a surprising way, revealing their specific, mysterious nature as objects: immobile, defined by precise forms, volumes and colors that enter into relationships with other objects and their limitless background pattern.

PARTY’s solo exhibitions include, ‘Still Life, Gold and Peeling Paint‘, Remap 3, Athens, 2011; ‘Charlotte‘ (in collaboration with STEPHANE DEVIDAL), Doll, Lausanne, 2011; ‘Elephants at the Woodmill‘, The Woodmill, London, 2011; ‘Elephants, spoons and sausage rolls’, Le Rez de Chaussee, Glasgow, 2010; and ‘New Work Scotland’ Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 2010. Also in 2010 he collaborated with JOANNE TATHAM and TOM O’SULLIVAN on the screen-printed publication, ‘DUST’. Born in Switzerland in 1980, he now lives and works in Glasgow.

And good news: NICOLAS PARTY will have a solo exhibition at Gregor Staiger Galerie in Zürich this spring (14 April – 26 May 2012). Additionally his first monograph has been released last year by The Modern Institute.