Alessandro Raho
Alessandro Raho (born 1971, Nassau, Bahamas[1]) is a British artist. His work has been shown at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
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[edit] Career
Born in Nassau, Bahamas, Raho moved to London and attended Croydon College (1989–90) and then Goldsmith College, graduating in 1994 with a BA in Fine Art.[1] In 1995, he was included in the Young British Artist showcase Brilliant! at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.[2]
In early 1996, he was hailed as one of the great promises in British art,[3] and had expositions noted in the American[4] and the French press.[5] In 2001, he participated in an exposition called Unseen Landscapes,[6] in 2002 he was in the important Painting on the Move exhibition in at the Kunsthalle Basel, and in 2003 exhibited his work at Cheim & Read Gallery in New York City, where his portraits received critical attention of The New York Times.[7]
In 2004, he was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in London to paint a portrait of English actress Dame Judi Dench.[8] Imagining Dench as a "wealthy housewife," he painted her in a way that "thrilled and flattered" her.[9][10]
His work is collected by Damien Hirst, and has been shown in Tokyo, New York, and Salzburg.[11] Two of his pencil drawings, Catherine (2003) and Ewan (2004), are in the collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art, as part of a 2005 donation by the Judith Rothschild Foundation.[12]
[edit] Style
Raho paints portraits of friends and family, seascapes and landscapes and still lives. He uses fine oil painting with a fresh contemporary approach.[13] His paintings and photographs were described as dealing with "narrative, nostalgia and desire," and he employs intricate technical processes "to make his paintings luxuriously photographic and his photographs deceptively painterly."[14]
[edit] Further reading
2002: Painting on the Move, Kunsthalle Basel http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Painting_on_the_move.html?id=Eh03AQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
2011: Alessandro Raho by Michael Bracewell and Nicholas Cullinan (Lund Humphries) ISBN 978-1-84822-093-5
2012: http://www.frameweb.com/news/alessandro-raho-at-alison-jacques-gallery Elephant Magazine review
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Alessandro Raho". Cheim & Read. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
- ^ Brilliant! New Art from London/CAMH archive
- ^ Norman, Geraldine (1 January 1996). "The young pretenders". The Independent.
- ^ "Stiff Upper Lip: British artists find irony in society's desperate politeness". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 24 March 1996.
- ^ "Artistes et galeries à travers le monde". Le Journal des Arts. 5 December 1997. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
- ^ "Lowry the great minimalist". The Guardian. 25 May 2001. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
- ^ "Art Guide". The New York Times. 3 October 2003. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
- ^ NPG Online Archive, accessed, 11 March, 2010
- ^ Jinman, Richard (19 January 2005). "National Gallery unveils Dench portrait". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
- ^ Gold, Tanya (20 January 2005). "Nothing like the dame". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
- ^ Williams-Akoto, Tessa (8 November 2006). "My Home: Alessandro Raho, portrait artist". The Independent. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
- ^ Rattemeyer, Christian (2009). The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: Catalogue Raisonne. Museum of Modern Art. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-87070-751-3.
- ^ Ewan, Alessandro Raho (1999).The Guardian 20 May 2000.
- ^ Nairne, Sandy; Sarah Howgate (2006). The portrait now. Yale UP. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-300-11524-6.
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