2 Exhibitions
dal 14/7/2010 al 14/9/2010
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14/7/2010
2 Exhibitions
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Schutz' flamboyant style is colourful, gestural, and visceral. She works with oppositions - painting and concept, intimacy and distance, cruelty and compassion, history and the present. Von Bruenchenhein described himself as 'Freelance Artist, Poet and Sculptor, Inovator... His exhibition comprises one painting and 19 photographs of the artist's wife.
Dana Schutz. Tourette's Paintings
Gallery 1
Some of Dana Schutz' early images, painted about a decade ago, told the story of Frank, the last man on earth; other pictures showed people eating their own bodies; a few dealt directly with political or overtly social issues. Her flamboyant style, which frequently makes references to art history, and especially to the history of figurative painting, is colourful, gestural, and visceral.
It would be a mistake, nonetheless, to think of Dana Schutz' art as unsubtle. She works with oppositions - painting and concept, intimacy and distance, cruelty and compassion, history and the present - and the meaning of her work lies in the liminal space where they abut and come together. Besides, there is puzzlement in her paintings, and not a little apprehension. They are more gloomy than they look, because their humour (much of it self-deprecating) disguises an underlying suspicion that the world doesn't make a lot of sense, and when it does it doesn't make much difference to things anyway.
According to the artist, the works in this exhibition are 'like Tourette's paintings', in that they portray involuntary actions: 'Sometimes imagery comes to mind without any kind of context or larger narrative - a completely irrational, sometimes painful kind of imagery'. It is not impossible, these paintings seem to suggest, that such responses to the world might be more complex and intelligible than they first appear. They may, above all, signal a deep desire to escape from the clutches of an overbearing and disturbing world.
The exhibition is accompanied by a new publication containing texts by the artist and Alexander Dumbadze.
The Douglas Hyde Gallery gratefully thanks the artist, Zach Feuer, of Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, and CFA, Berlin, for their help and support.
Events for this exhibition:
Artist's Talk
Dana Schutz will give a talk about her work.
Thursday, July 15, 5pm
Talks
Sheena Malone will give a talk entitled 'Arrow maker and Plant man - The Various Occupations of Eugene Von Bruenchenhein'.
Wednesday, August 4, 1:15pm
Barry White will give a talk on 'Dana Schutz and recent figurative art from the USA'.
Wednesday, August 25, 1:15pm
Film
Wendy and Lucy
Dir. Kelly Reichardt / USA / colour / 2008 / 80 min
Thursday, August 5, 5pm
Based on a short story by Jon Raymond, this is a simple and sensitive story about a young woman who hopes to start a new life with her dog in Alaska. Beset by various challenges, she is forced to make an extremely difficult decision before being able to complete her journey.
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
Gallery 2
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910-1983) described himself as 'Freelance Artist, Poet and Sculptor, Inovator [sic], Arrow maker and Plant man, Bone artifacts constructor, Photographer and Architect, Philosopher'. During his lifetime he created thousands of works known only to his wife, Marie, and to a handful of friends. He made scores of visionary, apocalyptic paintings, but he also made extraordinary sculptures, using dried chicken bones from TV dinners, as well as taking hundreds of black and white glamour photographs of his wife, posed against various exotic backgrounds in their modest house in Milwaukee.
This exhibition comprises one painting and nineteen photographs of the artist's wife.
Opening Thursday, July 15, 5pm
The Douglas Hyde Gallery
Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Hours: Monday - Friday, 11am-6pm
Thursday, 11am-7pm
Saturday, 11am-4.45pm
Free admission