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Mick Rooney RA
dal 15/3/2007 al 16/6/2007

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15/3/2007

Mick Rooney RA

Royal Academy of Arts, London

The artist abut his works: "Each diptych has one panel that is passive and one that is active - one is giving and one is receiving". The paintings are also biographical: their subjects penetrate the subconscious to produce surrealist images.


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L on Earth (Love, Lust, Loss and Longing etc)

The Royal Academy of Arts presents an exhibition of works by the painter Mick Rooney RA. The exhibition “L on Earth” (Love, Lust, Loss and Longing etc) will be on display in the Friends Room from 16 March to 17 June 2007. Rooney explains the philosophy behind his work: "Each diptych has one panel that is passive and one that is active – one is giving and one is receiving in some way, lusting or longing after the other. But the paintings are also biographical. The subjects come from a process of internal unloading – when I paint anything that pops into my head – often things I have seen in the past.

A diptych consists of two adjacent panels in which the left-hand panel ‘speaks’ to the right-hand panel. The ensuing dialogue creates a cohesive single entity. These days the religious significance is more or less lost. Historically, though, both the Orthodox and Roman Churches relied on the diptych (two panels), the triptych (three panels) and the polyptych (four or more panels) joined together to represent saints, scenes from the bible, morality tales, martyrdoms, the apocalypse, or overviews of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory.

My work has mostly attempted to focus upon describing in traditional, graphic, narrative and poetic terms, what is perhaps overly called ‘The Human Condition’. Music, world literature, poetry and travel are, and have always been, crucial to reinforce the subject matter.

The twentieth-century’s technological advancements mingled with extraordinary brutality and the painful unpeeling of the human psyche have, whether we like it or not, been absorbed into our daily lives.

But help and solace are at hand; those old faithful retainers of man’s estate- wit, humour, pathos, empathy, irony, love, ‘envie’, the graces, the virtues, and the deadly sins seem to have survived –
so far – the onslaught of the new world order.

The stories portrayed in these works have evolved almost unbidden onto the page, a little like scenes from old fashioned comics or like the allegories in Goya’s ‘proverbs’ and ‘caprices’, the titles reminding us of our daily struggle to make sense of our fate.

This series of images bubbling, I hope, alchemically along, may take the viewer, whistling a little off-key, a few paces down the pot-holed path of life’s urges and secret longings. As the writer Paul Theroux is kind enough to say:

I respond to his work as to few other people’s. For one thing, he is interested in ‘difference’, in happiness, in loss, in alienation. There is no faking and always a sort of wit and humour.
Mick Rooney, January 2007

Rooney’s subject matter infiltrates the subconscious to produce surrealist images about life’s disappointments, conundrums, minor tragedies, ironies and occasional victories.

The exhibition includes around 35 new and recent works all of which are for sale.

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Burlington House Piccadilly - London

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