CAA Limited-Edition Prints
Kiki Smith, Fall/Winter, 1999
Photogravure, aquatint, etching, and drypoint, 2 panels,
sheet size: each 22 x 15 in., image size 9 x 9 in., edition of 60
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About the Work
Fall/Winter is a leading example of Kiki Smith’s continuing interest in the human body and its relationship to the animal and natural world. The print illustrates one rotation of life’s perpetual cycle of birth, death, and regeneration. In the Winter 1999 issue of Art Journal, the art historian and critic Maura Reilly observes, “By offering up the last two seasons (there is no Spring/Summer), Smith underscores the fragility of life and the imminence of death.” The seated women, clearly self-portraits, reveal a vulnerable body succumbing to the darker forces of nature. Even the demeanor of the squirrel, seated on her lap, diminishes from a bushytailed heartiness in Fall to a weary lethargy in Winter. Indeed, human mortality and life’s interconnectedness with the natural world fascinates Smith.
Considered one of the most influential artists of her generation, Smith incorporates enigmatic and radical reinterpretations of conventional representations of the human form in her work. Represented by PaceWildenstein Gallery, Smith has had numerous exhibitions throughout the world, including solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, both in New York; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; and the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva, Switzerland, among many others. Her work is in public and private collections worldwide.