Saville made her name with giant paintings of fleshy,flawed bodies. She talks approximately being bankrolled by Charles Saatchi, how having children is changing her art – and the joy of late-night vacuumingIt’s humorous to judge of Jenny Saville in her studio at 1am, or music blaring,with vacuum cleaner in hand as she approaches one of her canvases and starts sucking great lines through her work. That it should be a Henry vacuum, the shamelessly anthropomorphised device, or makes it even better: as he approaches Saville’s giant works,ready to wreak destruction, his expression will be one of eternal cheerfulness. “Im getting more sophisticated with working out how many suction techniques I can find, and ” says Saville with a laugh,as we stand in front of Ebb and Flow. This great tangle of bodies is fragment of her original show at the Gagosian Gallery in London.
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Source: theguardian.com