The Meeting.
Olivier Cornet Gallery, 3 Great Denmark Street, Dublin 1, until September 3rd 2017
Reviewed by Irish Times art critic Gemma Tipton The Best Art Shows to Spend Time With this Week.....
The art world is all about connections, so how do you go about opening those up beyond the chosen few? The annual Visual Artists Ireland Get Together has the answer, and its Speed Curating event is an energetic meet up where serendipities may begin. One such was when Dublin gallerist Olivier Cornet met Muireann Ní Chonaill, the Co Laois arts officer, and the idea of a joint exhibition was born.
At The Meeting, David Fox shows pleasing paintings of scenes usually considered unbeautiful (think of Eithne Jordan’s brilliantly done placeless-places). They share an affinity with Darina Meagher’s work, and together are a good counterpoint to Aileen Hamilton’s organic fantasies, while Vicky Smith gets down and dirty with the tedium of housework. Gemma Tipton, August, 2017
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/the-best-art-shows-to-spend-time-with-this-week-1.3179496
Spectrum of Activity.
The Black Mariah, Triskel Arts Centre Cork, 2011
All of the ‘refracted light’ that diffuses around the picture is labelled according to its colour title, i.e. ochre, lemon, yellow, umber, etc. It is twee and naff and knowingly so, but it does suggest certain colours as representative of style, or belonging to a certain era. An idea that is extended with some subtlety in Vicky Smith’s Berliners in car. In the context of this exhibition, Smith’s piece stands out and hauls the show into an entirely different direction. Her photographic print (which is fitted directly onto the gallery wall) is of another photograph that featured in a National Geographic magazine in 1982. The saturation of tone and colour of this re-representation places it into a specific era. It asks cultural questions of colour, what colour, when, for who and for what use?
Paper Visual Art.
Adrian Duncan works in Dublin. 2011
Olivier Cornet Gallery, 3 Great Denmark Street, Dublin 1, until September 3rd 2017
Reviewed by Irish Times art critic Gemma Tipton The Best Art Shows to Spend Time With this Week.....
The art world is all about connections, so how do you go about opening those up beyond the chosen few? The annual Visual Artists Ireland Get Together has the answer, and its Speed Curating event is an energetic meet up where serendipities may begin. One such was when Dublin gallerist Olivier Cornet met Muireann Ní Chonaill, the Co Laois arts officer, and the idea of a joint exhibition was born.
At The Meeting, David Fox shows pleasing paintings of scenes usually considered unbeautiful (think of Eithne Jordan’s brilliantly done placeless-places). They share an affinity with Darina Meagher’s work, and together are a good counterpoint to Aileen Hamilton’s organic fantasies, while Vicky Smith gets down and dirty with the tedium of housework. Gemma Tipton, August, 2017
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/the-best-art-shows-to-spend-time-with-this-week-1.3179496
Spectrum of Activity.
The Black Mariah, Triskel Arts Centre Cork, 2011
All of the ‘refracted light’ that diffuses around the picture is labelled according to its colour title, i.e. ochre, lemon, yellow, umber, etc. It is twee and naff and knowingly so, but it does suggest certain colours as representative of style, or belonging to a certain era. An idea that is extended with some subtlety in Vicky Smith’s Berliners in car. In the context of this exhibition, Smith’s piece stands out and hauls the show into an entirely different direction. Her photographic print (which is fitted directly onto the gallery wall) is of another photograph that featured in a National Geographic magazine in 1982. The saturation of tone and colour of this re-representation places it into a specific era. It asks cultural questions of colour, what colour, when, for who and for what use?
Paper Visual Art.
Adrian Duncan works in Dublin. 2011
