Anastasia Bay’s (Paris, 1988) paintings depict human figures in a way that reminds of Minoan frescoes as much as of comic strips, mixing classical history with contemporary culture, and sports with literature in a rizhomic form of cross-pollination between references that makes her works uniquely striking and profoundly resonating at once. The works are often large in scale and her painting style is characterised by secure brushstrokes and rough drawing marks applied over colour field backgrounds with a synthetic approach and process leaving no space to the unnecessary and where, from the lines and traces left from the preparatory drawings, the pentimento, it is pure emotions and relations emerging. Bay graduated from the prestigious École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and had shows at Galerie Derouillon (Paris, 2022), Anna Zorina Gallery (New York, 2022), Sorry We’re Closed (Brussels, 2021), White House Gallery (Lovenjoel, 2021), and Spurs Gallery (Beijing, 2020) among others. Bay lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
Villeggiatura
Jul 3 — 24, 2022
VV.AA., Dimensions / Of Possibility, Gothenburg: Nevven Editions, 2020 — Digital exhibition catalog