Two of Damien Flood's paintings are currently featured in a group show entitled, Great Small Works, which is still open for viewing at Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art in Belgium. The show features over 80 recent small scale artworks from 30+ artists.
Image : Installation views of the Small Great Works exhibition at Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art
Image : Damien Flood, Aspect, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm; one of Flood's featured works in the exhibition Great Small Works
Green on Red Gallery is delighted to share the announcement that our gallery artist, Alan Butler as part of the ANNEX collective, was recently selected to represent Ireland at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Biennale Architettura 2020. ANNEX is an international research and design collective that is comprised of a team of architects, artists, and urbanists, which includes Sven Anderson, David Capener, Donal Lally, Clare Lyster and Fiona McDermott in addition to Alan Butler. The theme of the 2020 Biennale, chosen by its chief curator, Hashim Sarkis, is "How will we live together?" and serves as the inspiration behind each participating nation's exhibition. ANNEX's exhibition will be entitled Entanglement and is said to respond to the relationships between architecture and data infrastructures and is deeply linked to how these relationships manifest in Ireland's own architectural landscape. The 17th International Architecture Exhibition is set to run from August 29th to November 29th, after which the Entanglement exhibition is set to tour Ireland in 2021.
Look out for Stephanie McBride's "Shadowlands" article about Aoife Shanahan's recent photographs in the current edition of The Irish Arts Review. See Irish Arts Review: Spring (March-May 2020), “Shadowlands” by Stephanie McBride, pp. 90-95.
Image: Aoife Shanahan, Folded Cascade Paper no. 6, 2019, 25 x 20 cm, featured in the latest edition of Irish Arts Review
Image : Installation view of Bridget Riley's retrospective at The Hayward Gallery, London
Our gallery artist Bridget Riley recently concluded a retrospective show at The Hayward Gallery in London, which ran from October 23, 2019 to January 26 2020. The show featured work that spanned her impressive 70 year career and included some of her most iconic canvases which document her artistic evolution, particularly her shifting focuses on the nuances of colour and limitations of form. The show also included some of Riley's rare preparatory sketches and drawings, which lent insight into her creative process and practice throughout the decades. We would like to congratulate her on the success of the show and look forward to seeing and to supporting new work by Bridget.
We are pleased to announce that Damien Flood's painting Tumble was recently purchased from Green On Red Gallery for Trinity College's permanent art collection by The Provost's Fund for Contemporary Art. Flood is an Irish artist and graduate of NCAD whose work is often grounded in early writings on philosophy, theology, alchemy and the natural sciences and explores the mutability of ' reality ' and language. Tumble ( 2018 ) is one of the works from Flood's recent Green On Red Gallery exhibition The Figure in the Carpet (2018), through which the artist explored the duality of imagery by incorporating both figurative and abstract elements in his compositions.
Image : Damien Flood, Tumble, 2018, Oil on reversed black primed canvas, 150 cm x 125 cm
Green On Red Gallery enters its 28th year in business in Dublin on the move. After five great years in Spencer Dock, Dublin 1, where we made many new friends and key supporters, the gallery will take up a new space to continue to show contemporary art from Ireland and beyond. We will keep you advised of future developments and look forward to seeing you again in our new gallery soon.
Highlights of the last 5 years in Spencer Dock include the addition of artists Kirstin Arndt, Alan Butler, Aoife Shanahan and Xavier Theunis to the gallery's roster. We look forward to bringing you more of their work and new work of all of our gallery artists in the future, both in Dublin and at events and fairs internationally, as always, thanks to Culture Ireland.
In the meantime, if you are interested in viewing any work by our artists Kirstin Arndt, Alan Butler, John Cronin, Mary FitzGerald, Damien Flood, John Graham, Tom Hunter, Ben Jones, Mark Joyce, Arno Kramer, Niamh McCann, Caroline McCarthy, Ronan McCrea, Fergus Martin, Bridget Riley, Nigel Rolfe, Aoife Shanahan and Xavier Theunis please reach out to us at info@greenonredgallery.com to set up an appointment.
Jerome O Drisceoil
Director
Green On Red Gallery
Image: Installation view of our most recent show at Green on Red Gallery, Xavier Theunis' solo exhibition, Bone In Skin On
Our most recent and final show at Green on Red Gallery’s Spencer Dock location was a great success and received great reviews from attendees, including art critic Aidan Dunne of the Irish Times. The Fall show, Bone In Skin On, was Xavier Theunis’ first solo show with the gallery and featured a number of the artist’s large-scale works.
Xavier Theunis is a French-Belgian artist who works in a range of media, including drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, and painting. His work examines space and perspective through playful reinterpretations of still life, landscape, design, and architecture. While his practice is diverse, ranging from large-scale mixed media installations to surreal photographs of interiors, his recent interests revolve around the idea of “constructing” paintings. For his most recent series, Theunis has explored dimension and shape by applying offcuts and discarded pieces of vinyl to aluminum canvases and building his compositions off of the organic lines made by the layered pieces. By its very nature, this process means that the vinyl pieces do not perfectly piece together, leaving the different colours separated by slivers of white, which simultaneously mark difference between the fragments while uniting them into a mosaic-like paintings of colour.
For Bone In Skin On, Theunis dives further into ideas of repurpose and changed meaning by creating a spiral structure in the gallery in which his pieces were hung. The spiral is of course an artwork itself, meticulously made from the same shipping crates in which the works were transported. In this way, the crates change function from protective to aesthetic purpose, just as the pieces of vinyl change meaning from discarded fragments to fully realized compositions. By essentially creating a gallery within a gallery, Theunis invited attendees to interact with the maze-like construction and perceive the works and crate-spiral as components of a larger installation.
We are delighted that people enjoyed Theunis’ debut show and are particularly pleased with a positive, five star review from the Irish Times, which said of the show, “While the individual pieces he makes are enthralling, and incidentally labour-intensive, there’s no doubt that the environment he has created is just as much a part of the work. He is apparently a perfectionist who dwells on every aspect of a project, from the smallest detail to the entire package. Which is why it’s important to see the exhibition in the round, rather than, say, as a series of attractive images online.” Read the full review in the Irish Times here- https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/bone-in-skin-on-an-enthralling-exhibition-that-needs-to-be-seen-in-the-round-1.4061450
Xavier Theunis, vue d’atleier #22, Green on Red Gallery