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GREEN ON RED GALLERY: What lies beneath - 11 July 2013 to 24 Aug 2013 Current Exhibition |
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Caoimhe Kilfeather
lot (2013) Gicl�e print, 15.5 x 11.5cm |
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What lies beneath Rubén Grilo, Caoimhe Kilfeather, Niamh McCann, Bea McMahon We have extended our current group exhibition What lies beneath,until Saturday 24 August. What lies beneath examines the choice and transformation of specific materials - often with industrial or functional overtones - in the work of a group of young artists, to evoke a kind of material memory or legacy. “ I am interested in the experience of the material traces of production; of a world composed of the aesthetic residue of times long since passed, those recently faded from memory and those of the here and now. “ (Caoimhe Kilfeather). Remembering is a creative act geared as much to looking forward as to recalling past events/figures and previous cultural signposts. There is, therefore, the patina of time and inventive reuse in the presentation of many of the objects in the exhibition, from the sound of Bea McMahon’s super 8 machinery in Octopuses to Niamh McCann’s Yves Klein Blue and gold leaf in Boris Karloff. “ The shape of an 'A'… has passed a whole evolutionary process that gives it that shape different to others. So it carries information about itself which then we articulate building larger entities such as words, sentences, discourses, etc. But I wanted to look at it not as an empty sign (as stated by semiologists) but more as an animal which lives among us because of a process of survival. “ (R. Grilo) Using a variety of media, such as PowerPoint presentation, archive material, found objects or laser-projected animation, Rubén Grilo explores the notion of art as information. The point of departure is the tradition of conceptual art, confronting its alleged intangibility with a necessary materialization. His work often takes the form of installations in which saturation, formal analogies, the non-communicative use of language and the physical power of display play a major role. Recent shows by Grilo include: FAQ, Supplement Gallery, London, Sudden Glory, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid, 2012; Bioscope, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam, 2012; PowerPoint Karaoke, MARCO, Vigo, 2011; The Action of Thing, CCS Bard, New York, 2011; The Benefit of Ignorance. EspaiZer01, Olot, 2010; Before Everything. CA2M, Mostoles, 2010; Situación, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, 2008. Caoimhe Kilfeather studied at NCAD, Dublin (BA) and the Slade School of Fine Art, London (MA). Her work is predominantly sculptural and is informed by a range of material, formal and art historical interests. Upcoming exhibitions include The Line of Beauty, IMMA, What Lies Beneath at Green On Red Gallery and a solo exhibition at Oonagh Young Gallery and Green On Red Gallery in 2014. Recent exhibitions include Into the light, Crawford Art Gallery, Futures 12, RHA, None Went Mad, None Ran Away, Rubicon Gallery, and Space of the Present, Leipzig Kunstverein. Caoimhe recently completed a residency at the Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin and was the recipient of the 2011 Fred Conlon Award. She will undertake a residency in Bemis Centre for the Arts, Nebraska later this year. She teaches in the Sculpture and Combined Media Department at the Limerick School of Art and Design. Using everyday objects and images from the contemporary urban environment, Niamh McCann makes visible poetry of chance connections, whimsy and paradox. McCann works with found materials, industrial processes and situations - given logos, re-appropriated signs, newspaper montages - that she alters and then reconfigures to create works as alternates scenarios or landscapes to question the quotidian means. Physically, many of McCann's pieces capture the viewer's reflection suggesting a concern with self, as well as a play on image, word and text. The artist builds compositions, which generate their own spatial perception and experience, creating a language that adapts the deft game of observation and veiling. Recent exhibitions include: 'Changing states: Contemporary Irish Art and Francis Bacon's Studios', BOZAR, Brussels, 'The Future Perfect: We Are Here', Rubicon Projects, Brussels, 'Insertions', Green On Red Gallery, Lightness, The Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow, ‘Time Out of Mind, works from the IMMA collection’, IMMA, NCH, Earlsfort Tce, Dublin, ‘Cutting a door’, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai. Bea McMahon’s artistic practice involves readymade conventions and concepts, reworking them to invite associations that exist somewhere between irreverent and irrelevant. A singular curiosity together with a sense of conviction pushes McMahon to interrogate physical phenomena, whereby she gives form to the invisible but essential layers of the real world. In acceding to her vision, she induces in the viewer a fleeting feeling of 'I believe you, but I’m not sure quite what I’m believing'. Exhibitions include at Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Treignac Project: 2 rue Ignace Dumergue, France, Root, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, Flat Time House, Peckham, London, Flat Time House, Peckham, London, Nothing is Impossible at The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Two-fold at the Green on Red Gallery, True Complex at Void (Derry) and The Curated Visual Artist’s Award, The Douglas Hyde Gallery (Dublin). Thanks to Galeria Nogueras Blanchard, Spain, to Laser Couriers, J Kennedy’s, to Martin and to all the artists. For further information please do not hesitate to contact Jerome, Mary or Martin at +353 1 6713414 or [email protected] www.greenonredgallery.com Our opening hours are: Mon: By appointment / Tues - Fri: 10 - 6pm / Sat: 1 - 4pm / Sun: Closed. |
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