Nicole Eisenman and the Moderns. Heads, Kisses, Battles: Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, Arles, France

The exhibition is the result of a close collaboration between the artist Nicole Eisenman and four European museums: the Aargauer Kunsthaus in Switzerland, the Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Germany, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag in the Netherlands and the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles in France.

Human existence, questions of identity, social conventions and power relations in contemporary Western society are central themes in Nicole Eisenman’s work.

Nicole Eisenman (b. 1965) is an American painter and sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, where for over thirty years they have been producing a multifaceted and abundant body of work that is overtly ironic and political. Profoundly informed by the artist’s personal life and infused with the motifs and issues of today’s world, Eisenman’s practice is also closely related to the art of earlier centuries, from antiquity and the Renaissance to modernism.