Francis Bacon: Couplings Kunsthalle Basel The Wall Works are a

The Wall Works are a group of wall-mounted sculptural silhouettes made from painted rubberized hair on Masonite that captures figures in motion

In an interview with Brooklyn Rail publisher and artistic director Phong Bui

working in Venice to develop approximately a hundred paintings

frenetic lines that recall Asian calligraphic characters and pre-Columbian hieroglyphs

On one side the pillow shows an “awake” face adorned with a wide smile and open eyes

Francis Bacon: Couplings Kunsthalle Basel The Wall Works are aThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Francis Bacon: Couplings at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. It highlights a theme that preoccupied Bacon throughout his career: the relationshipboth physical and psychologicalbetween two people. At its heart are two of the most uninhibited images that Bacon ever painted: Two Figures (1953) and Two Figures in the Grass (1954). After completing these interrelated works, Bacon did not return to