Pat Flynn
dal 5/7/2007 al 18/8/2007
Segnalato da
5/7/2007
Pat Flynn
Chapter Gallery, Cardiff
Draw me a Castle. Flynn's first solo exhibition features a series of films, photographs and sculpture which explore modern landscapes, historical architecture and fiction. His romantic cityscapes are globally generic spaces bereft of human intervention.
Draw me a Castle
Pat Flynn's first solo exhibition in Wales features a series of films, photographs
and sculpture which explore modern landscapes, historical architecture and fiction.
Flynn's worlds are hauntingly familiar, filled with hopes and aspirations. From a
British retail shopping mall to the reflection of a shoe shop in a marble floor,
Flynn takes the viewer into recognisable spaces that feel at first glance
comfortable and safe.
His romantic cityscapes are globally generic spaces bereft of human intervention.
This lack of human presence creates a feeling of paralyzing introspection: provoking
the viewer to think about daily activity, public spaces and interaction with other
people.
Flynn's films seduce the viewer into several different worlds: from that of a snake
which continuously moves through a peephole shoe, to that of a child's mobile,
recreating Ptolemy's model of our solar system where the celestial bodies are
reduced to small circular discs perpetually spinning around the earth.
Flynn plays with scale and the audience's proximity to the object, be it film,
photography or sculpture. A good example of this is the sculpture
Untitled (Coliseum) which is enlarged to an uncomfortable scale. The feeling of
unease this artwork provokes is accentuated by the hyper-real detailing and the fact
that it has been tipped on its side, ready to roll off in any direction.
Flynn studied at Staffordshire and Manchester Metropolitan Universities. Other solo
exhibitions include: 'Gas and Dust', International 3, Manchester (2007). Group
exhibitions include: 'Ourselves Alone', Galerie Marion Scharmann, Cologne (2006);
'We go round and round in the night and are consumed by fire', Liverpool Biennial
(2004) and 'Out of Town', Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2002). Between 2001 and
2002, Flynn was Wheatley Fellow at the University of Central England.
He lives and works in Manchester.
Preview: Friday 6 July, 7-9pm
Chapter Gallery
Market Road - Cardiff