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on May 22, 2011

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Arco 2014 Madrid

I had a fleeting visit to the Arco 2014 art fair due to the fact that it took place at the same time as Artmadrid 2014 and I had to spent the majority of time there. It´s such an enormous fair that I decided I would concentrate on a theme in the work that I saw instead of trying to get everything in. So I took texture and light as subjects in the works I saw. The first intriguing piece was at the Stefan Ropke gallery which was essentially a large piece of crumbled paper but had a lovely soft tissue texture and the second piece was this portrait of a head in boxes not very original maybe but really well painted, loose and watery texture mmm. Then there were pieces where I really liked the idea, for example the eight ball was classic and with an excellent finish from the Ines Barrenechea gallery (Madrid) This installation or collection of paintings from Luis Coquenao gave the impression of a type of lunar landscapes but on closer inspection was layer watery texture appli...

Nostalgia 4 - Ophelia and spitfires

Title - Ophelia Dimensions - ( H x W x D ) - 110 x 110 x 16 cm \ approx\ Medium – Clear resin, pigment , matches, shellac, wood. The longer I know this piece the more I read from it or see in it. Romantic notions of spitfires and John Millia's painting Ophelia were the inspiration for this sculpture. I exhibited a smaller version of this piece at a solo exhibition in Germany and had a very different response to my own interpretation. Verball...

Nostalgia 1 --- The notion of returning home.

Nostalgia / Definition - The notion of returning home from the Greek words Nostos and algos combine to define a condition of ACHING to return home and a inner sadness. In Ireland we always talk of The Irish Diaspora but speaking more recently to Venezuelans and reading the stories if displaced Palestinians living in foreign countries makes me feel that the Irish Diaspora is more historical than actual. But there is no doubt that this diaspora has framed and for a great part moulded the idea of what it is to be Irish. NOSTALGIA -- The word is surprisingly new and termed first as a condition or more correctly a state resulting in numerous side effects. First used to define a condition Swiss soldiers suffered while fighting abroad. It was a mental state brought on from being away from home and suffering a deep aching sadness with the resulting stress manifested in many physical side effects. Nostalgia was seen as an illness initially, a condition ...

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