Amy Bessone / Thomas Houseago: 20 November 2010 to 16 April 2011

British sculptor Thomas Houseago recalls the expressive figures of classical Greek sculpture and Picasso's cubism in his monstrous statues and masks. His artistic influences include Picasso, Giacometti, Surrealism and rock album covers. American painter Amy Bessone depicts porcelain figurines blown up to monumental size that subvert the very image of the collectible. Her sensual female nudes, through their treatment and brushwork, invoke Picasso and Matisse yet remain entirely anti-modernist. This publication is the first to explore the artistic duo's collaborative treatment of the figure through the lens of popular culture and art history.