![]() Using Speak, America as a shell for his work, Yanai captures his own memories and experiences through painting, honouring the work of Nabokov while imprinting his own autobiography on to the author’s unwritten text. ![]() The book, however, was never written, and Nabokov died in 1977 leaving behind the “shell” of an unwritten, autobiographical sequel. When Nabokov moved to Europe in 1961, to live at the Montreux Palace hotel in Switzerland, he planned to write a sequel to his celebrated autobiography Speak, Memory. Guy Yanai’s solo exhibition at Ameringer McEnery Yohe in New York takes its title from an unwritten book by the Russian-born American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. Guy Yanai: ‘Every work that leaves my studio is part of an inexhaustible autobiography’ The Israeli artist Guy Yanai explains the stories behind the bold, colourful oil paintings in Speak, America, his solo exhibition in New York, and talks about being influenced by Vladimir Nabokov, David Hockney and Matisse ![]()
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