Peter Doig / Mary McIntyre
dal 14/11/2012 al 19/1/2013
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14/11/2012
Peter Doig / Mary McIntyre
Metropolitan Arts Centre MAC, Belfast
In "Imaginary Places" Doig invites us to consider the status of the people, places and events that populate his pictures, whether they exist in private or public realms. McIntyre's work examines how painting and photography not only portray, but also construct the landscapes we see.
Peter Doig
Imaginary Places
Doig’s subjects are often sourced from film stills and photographs, emanating a quiet nostalgia. He records places at the fringes of normality, anonymous locations where the urban and natural worlds meet.
Doig is known for his innovative exploration of landscape. His work plunges the viewer into an unreliable world of reflections.
He invites us to consider the status of the people, places and events that populate his pictures, whether they exist in private or public realms, in personal or shared experiences. His rigorous approach to surface, texture and colour puts him among the most inventive painters of his generation, leaving a profound influence on young artists and contemporaries alike.
Doig has had major solo exhibitions around the world including Tate Britain (2008), Dallas Museum of Art (2005), Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich (2004) and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1998). This is the first significant exhibition of his work in Northern Ireland.
Talk
29 November, 6pm
Catherine Lampert, Curator & Art Historian will discuss the significance of Peter Doig’s early works.
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Mary McIntyre
A Contemporary Sublime
Her work examines how painting and photography not only portray, but also construct the landscapes we see. She adopts the traditional, formal qualities of landscape painting and re-interprets them within a contemporary context.
McIntyre’s series of images explore elements of natural phenomena and our perceptions of them. By photographing in very specific weathers, such as mist and fog, she produces documents of that which is intangible. In these images, the landscape itself, the supposed ‘site’ of the work, is rendered unknowable; it becomes an absent subject.
This exhibition of McIntyre’s landscape work from 1999 – 2011 is shown for the first time alongside historical paintings which have influenced her practice. The exhibition includes works by Jacob Van Ruisdael, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot and L.S. Lowry.
Artist Talk
6 December, 6pm
Mary McIntyre will discuss her work and how her practice has been influenced by historical painting.
Talk
10 January, 6pm
Christopher Riopelle, Curator, National Gallery London will explore ideas of the sublime with examples from the National Gallery London.
Image: Peter Doig Young Bean Farmer 1991 / Courtesy the Victoria Miro Gallery, London.
Media and Communications Officer
Christine Bowen 028 9089 2960 christine@themaclive.com
Preview 15 November 7-9pm.
Metropolitan Arts Centre MAC
10 Exchange Street West Belfast BT1 2NJ Northern Ireland
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