Nicolas Party Ponders on the End Times in New Hauser & Wirth Exhibition

The end times may dominate the news cycle, but the premonition of the apocalypse is nothing new. Images of great floods, rampant fires, and incessant suffering is riddled within the pages of religious texts and the canons of art history, from Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy (1321), J.M.W. Turner's The Deluge (1805) to Nicolas Party's latest solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth.Housed at the gallery's New York location, Swamp creates a bridge between past and present, as the Swiss artist reconte...