Frontier: Recent Paintings - taispeántas de phictiúir le Eddie Kennedy
Praghas
Saor in aisce
Dátaí
14/04/2024 - 02/06/2024
10:30 am - 5:00 pm
Suíomh
Caisleán Ráth Fearnáin
Rugadh Eddie Kennedy i nDurlas Éile, Contae Thiobraid Árann, i 1960. Bhain sé céim amach ó Scoil Ealaíne agus Deartha Luimnigh i 1983. Bhain sé Máistreacht sa Mhínealaín amach in Ollscoil Chincinnati i 1989. Tar éis dó roinnt blianta a chaitheamh ag péinteáil i Nua-Eabhrac agus ag obair leis an ealaíontóir SAM Ron Gorchov, tá sé ina chónaí agus ag obair anois i mBaile Átha Cliath agus Maigh Eo. In 2017 bronnadh Gradam Fondúireacht Pollock-Krasner air agus toghadh é ina bhallraíocht in Aosdána.
Faigheann an taispeántas Frontier inspioráid ó mháistrí ar nós Seamus Heaney, T.S Elliot, Phillip Guston agus dealbhóir SAM Bill Freeland. Feiceann Kennedy gníomhaíocht na péintéireachta mar staid athraithe braistintí, mar a mhíníonn T.S Elliot ‘tús nua is ea gach fiontar, ruathar ar an neamhráite’. Tugann Seamus Heaney focail freisin ar dhearcadh Kennedy ar an bpéintéireacht, ag cur an phróisis in iúl mar ‘réamhbhriathartha, in ann ligean don chéad airdeall nó teacht anseo, braite ar bhealach doiléir nó neamhiomlán, caolú agus cur chuige mar smaoineamh nó frása’.
In a rare and recent interview with the painter Frank Auerbach, when asked how he thought of his work, looking back over his long painting life, he stated that it wasn’t up to him to judge them, but that looking back on them now, from a distance, he was satisfied that he had been “working on his own frontier”.I find this poetic understanding of the endeavour to make paintings both thrilling and hugely liberating and absolutely true. The unrelenting search for authenticity I had in mind Frontier as the title of this exhibition in Rathfarnam Castle as I’ve been preparing for it over many months.
Tabhair cuairt anseo
Ráth Fearnáin, Baile Átha Cliath 14, D14 K3T6
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