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30/5/2012

Nigel Rolfe

Green on red gallery, Dublin

"Don't care how great you are and don't care what you worth, when it all comes down, you gotta go back to mother earth"
Memphis Slim

Sites in the landscape are markers of political events both past but also more present. The land and places on it underscores fault lines and centres our attention on our shortcomings in how we live together. Whether workplaces or dark and bloody grounds: from the personal to the global. Either close by or far from here. In Ireland from the depleting boglands in the midlands, to the bogside in Derry there are many landscapes of loss and contest. These are reflected too in a wider world far away, whether in Majdanek in Poland or Pine Ridge in South Dakota, places that in themselves bear witness to mans inhumanity to man and stand as unknown monuments to stupidity and greed.

An always relevant quote from Piotrowski states "that art is no longer an aesthetic question but the question of human survival". The questions that penetrate us about arts possibility to delve into dark matter or to be able to make any contribution to repair caused by hurt, Inspired by Primo Levi or Chomsky , is to just ask what are our responsibilities in relationship to the world itself, either as creative workers or thinking beings. Perhaps this is a call for a revised political art of the landscape, more timely now as capitalism struggles in deflating economies and environmental damage continues to go unchecked.

Image: Track location still. Boglands. Co Kildare. 2012. Photo credit. Will Rolfe

For further information please contact Jerome, Mary or Jonathan at T: +353 16713414 or E: info@greenonredgallery.com
www.greenonredgallery.com

Opening: Thursday 31 May, from 6 – 8pm

Green on red gallery
26 Lombard Street - Dublin
opening hours: Tues – Fri: 10 – 6pm / Sat: 1 – 4pm

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