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Copyright the artist | | | Hoberman, Nicky (1967 - ) South Africa / Portugal
Spook II, 1998
Oil on canvas; 213 x 275 cm 90's
UID 102-268
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Biography
South-African artist, born in Cape Town, who later also adopted Portuguese nationality. Studied at Oxford University (1986-89), at the Fine Art Parsons School of Design, in Paris (1989-93) and at the Chelsea College of Art, in London (1994-95). First one-person shows, London (1996 and 1998) and in Milan (1997). The sugar-sweet little girls, painted in candy colours, share the disturbing nastiness of Paula Rego's infants. All her subjects are female between the age of three and eight. She starts by photographing them with a polaroid, which has the tendency to produce both blandness and distortion, then paints them wet-on-wet without making adjustments. In place of innocence, in their faces, there is a mixture of glazed ecstasy and sadism. It comes as no surprise that Nicky Hoberman cites her influences as Cindy Sherman and Diane Arbus. In 1996 she participated in several group exhibitions in London (Whitechapel Art Gallery and Jason & Rodes), in 1997, in the exhibition My Little Pretty at the Chicago Contemporary Art Museum and, in 1998, again at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.
Exhibitions
The Berardo Collection: An Addiction to Freedom Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 28-03-2003 ~ 28-09-2003
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Nicky Hoberman Entwistle, United Kingdom 17-09-1998 ~ 24-10-1998
She is a Femme Fatale – A Colecção Berardo em Campus FTC na Costa da Caparica, Portugal 08-04-2010 ~ 07-06-2010
Observers Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 14-02-2011 ~ 29-05-2011
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Nicky Hoberman, 2002
Nicky Hoberman, 1998 Published by Entwistle
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