Francis Bacon Human Presence Brand / Loqi Lemongrass

Lemongrass

Portuguese curator and author of the upcoming book The Artist as Ecologist (2023)

This is a novel which pushes allegory and language to its limits

this book gives readers a unique way to interact with the natural world around them

is a visually packed guidebook to the exoplanets of our universe

Francis Bacon Human Presence Brand / Loqi LemongrassFeaturing works from the 1950s onwards, this book explores Francis Bacon's deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional definitions of the genre. From his responses to portraiture by earlier artists, to large scale paintings memorialising lost lovers, works from private and public collections will showcase Bacon's life story. As well as the artist's self portraits, sitters include Lucian Freud, Isabel Rawsthorne and lovers Peter