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8/7/2009

Summer Group Show

Talbot Gallery & Studios, Dublin

Curated by Roisin Russell and Lourdes Viso

The Talbot Gallery is pleased to invite you to the summer group exhibition of 2009, featuring works by Michelle Considine, Hiroto Hakamada, Claire Halpin, Jacinta Hughes, Maggie Madden, Kevin Mooney and Emma Roche. A select group of exciting contemporary artists, who have exhibited both nationally and internationally, have been invited to explore the climate of change currently affecting the world.The concept behind the show is the fact that we live in an ever-changing world and that change is unavoidable; this leads us to question how the different sectors, organisations and individuals must respond to this rapidly and unpredictably changing climate to survive. Now above all there is a need for creative thinking and for the search for the ‘third alternative’ to succeed.

This exhibition explores how both the artists and the gallery as an entity must respond to this notion. Topics such as ‘the death of the painting’ were considered by Joseph Beuys and nowadays Roche’s work demystifies this idea as a mixing of various art practices is at the foreground of her work. Using a combination of photography and painting Hakamada explores his relationship with society; in each yearning brushstroke he draws on past experiences from his childhood hometown in Japan and the various places he has been since.

The sublime has been a consistent inspiration for the arts, from the Greek Longinus who wrote ‘Περὶ ὕψους’ (‘On the Sublime’) in the first century to Caspar David Friedrich who painted Wanderer above the Sea of Fog in 1818. Mooney’s interest lies in contrasting the transcendent promise of romanticism with the more mundane realities of human activity on the landscape. At the same time, deconstructing fairytales or addressing themes of abandonment, Hughes transforms everyday objects and situations into something which has a dream-like surreal quality.

Madden’s installations grow from a cycle where a combination of discarded objects and humble materials found in the urban environment are transformed to portray space engulfing structures; urban growth is represented by the very materials it has abandoned. Expanding on her interest in the figurative, Considine’s recent work introduces a new investigation of the places inhabited by her subjects. Around us we can see buildings, people and landscapes which are in a constant state of flux and metamorphosis. For this exhibition, Halpin fixes her gaze on the museums. Her paintings raise questions about how we remember the past and document the future.

In conclusion, this exhibition draws together seven realities based on personal experiences. Visitors will confirm the concept ‘Nothing stays the same, everything must change’ when each contemplates the work on display and thus further develops for themselves the themes portrayed by the artists.

Talbot Gallery & Studios
51 Talbot Street - Dublin
Free admission

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