Ormeau Baths Gallery
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Collins and Hughes
dal 12/3/2003 al 19/4/2003
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Hugh Mullholland


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Phil Collins
Ronnie Hughes



 
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12/3/2003

Collins and Hughes

Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast

Phil Collins, 'Real Society': For this, his first major solo show, Collins explores relationships between disparate groups to ask questions about the state of the world today. Ronnie Hughes, 'Lines of Desire': Belfast born artist Ronnie Hughes presents 'Line of Desire', a collection of recent paintings. The works form subtle, but complex visual relationships, with a few essential elements seeking to express a distillation of the artist's experience in and of nature.


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Phil Collins 'Real Society'
Ronnie Hughes 'Lines of Desire'

REAL SOCIETY- New Works by Phil Collins

Phil Collins has gained international attention and acclaim for his frank and honest portrayal of individuals affected by violence, war, political oppression and sectarianism. Using video installation and photography, Collins' work explores the complexities of political upheaval and the reconstruction of identities on a national and individual level. Collins' portraits and interviews are at once beautiful, personal and contentious.

For this, his first major solo show, Collins explores relationships between disparate groups to ask questions about the state of the world today. His work features widely disparate groups of people ranging from Florida voters who accidentally voted for Pat Buchanan in the 2000 election, the sole respondent to his advert for a mature (over 40's) Britney in Tel Aviv, a journalist who he persuades to talk about reporting on September 11th whom he simultaneously gets blind drunk and students in Baghdad who he asked to sit for a screen test for a film to be projected in a gallery somewhere in Northern Ireland.

In Gallery 3 Collins shows 'Real Society', pictures taken during an 18-hour marathon session in a luxury hotel in San Sebastian. Participants were invited through press and television to have their portrait taken by an international photographer - the only condition being that they had to remove some or all of their clothes. The series, named after the local football team 'Real Sociedad', documents the unexpected, tender and sometimes awkward encounters with more than fifty individuals and couples taking part in this delicate social exchange.

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LINES OF DESIRE - Recent Works by Ronnie Hughes

Belfast born artist Ronnie Hughes presents 'Line of Desire', a collection of recent paintings. The works form subtle, but complex visual relationships, with a few essential elements seeking to express a distillation of the artist's experience in and of nature. Hughes rejects the notion that this is simply an exercise in modernist reductionism; rather he argues that the void created is filled with poetic association and "openendedness". The result is a body of work in which forms hover and vie for recognition before receding. The elemental shapes of rings, coils, loops and chain links make references of a distinctly biological nature, but take their cue from items used in every day life - "surf boards, Prozac, remote control buttons, tic-tacs, vitamin pills and e-numbers." The works' austerity is tempered with a slightly humorous note as the forms at times seem to become animated; a tendency which undercuts their apparent formalism.

EXHIBITION OPENS THURSDAY 13 MARCH 2003 at OBG, 7PM - 9PM

The exhibition opens on 13 March 2003 from 7pm - 9pm, and runs until Saturday 19 April 2003, Tuesday to Saturday, 10.00am - 6.00pm. ENTRANCE FREE.

OBG has an Espresso Bar and range of periodicals and funky postcards for sale.

For more information, visuals and to arrange interviews please contact Rachel Kennedy, Gallery Administrator
Tel: + (028) 9032 1402 / Fax: + (028) 9031 2232

Ormeau Baths Gallery
18a Ormeau Avenue BT2 8HS
02890321402

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