The Art Angle Podcast: Nicolas Party on Why Being an Art Star Is Like Being in Love

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After a period of reckoning with a less-than-inclusive art
historical canon, it seems increasingly clear that viewers (and
dealers) are once again ready to embrace fresh young talent from
the land of the living—artists bringing new perspectives and ideas
into the sometimes-staid institutional mix.

Among this up-and-coming group, one name on almost everyone’s
lips right now is Nicolas Party. A preternaturally good-natured 38
year-old, Party has won widespread attention not for some
technologically savvy mixed-reality experience, but in fact, for
the opposite. The Swiss-born artist is actually a proponent of one
of the oldest art-making mediums, using pastels to conjure
fantastical landscapes, portraits, and still lifes that are just as
colorful as the Missoni sweaters he’s fond of.

On this week’s episode of the Art Angle, Party
discusses his evolution from a teenage street artist trying (and
eventually, failing) to elude authorities in his native Lausanne,
to an art-school student working in digital modeling, to a hands-on
figurative artist who recently became the youngest-ever member of
mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth—a transformation that has propelled his
works as high as seven figures at auction.

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