August 2017
Carrion Flowers
Solo show at the Cabin LA
For the month of July Damien Flood has been working at the La Brea Artist Residency in Los Angeles. During this time he created a new body of work that sees new representational motifs appear in the work. The work has been inspired by his time in Los Angeles during the residency.
The work from the residency is on view at the Cabin LA.
To visit the show please contact Danny First at danny@thecabinla.com
or by phone 323 559 2346
For more information about the Cabin LA click here
Seattle Art Fair
Diane Rosentsein Gallery will be exhibiting the work of Gisela Colon, Eben Goff, Julian Stanczak, Dan Miller, Charles Fine and Damien Flood at this years Seattle Art Fair.
The Seattle Art Fair is a one-of-a-kind destination for the best in modern and contemporary art and a showcase for the vibrant arts community of the Pacific Northwest. Based in Seattle, a city as renowned for its natural beauty as its cultural landscape, the fair brings together the region’s strong collector base, local, national, and international galleries, area museums and institutions, and an array of innovative public programming. Founded in 2015 by Paul G. Allen, the Seattle Art Fair is produced by Vulcan Inc. and Art Market Productions.
Seattle Art Fair
Booth C14
August 3rd - 6th
For more information on the Seattle Art Fair and Diane Rosentein Gallery please click here
Theory of Two Centres
Solo show of new work at Stephane Simoens, Belgium.
Exhibition opens August 4th.
The Theory of Two Centres was proposed by St Augustine in the fifth Century AD to appose the theory of the earth having antipodes while keeping the supposed spherical form. This new theory suggested that the Earth was composed of two spheres, one of land and one of water, contained one within the other, but not concentric. This solved the problem of retaining the sphere while rejecting the antipodes. The terrestrial globe rose a little from the watery sphere with the northern part of the Earth centre stage.
In this exhibition the artist presents us with a body of new work that explores the dualism of belief faith and seeing. The figure looms more presently than in previous shows, occasionally appearing sharply and at times as a ghost or fading memory. In the large raw linen painting ‘Dimensions Variable (Boudoir)’ 2017 a blue hand with black manicured nails appears to measure the bottom left of the canvas. The painting jostles and sways in a freudian dream scape. Lines twist and turn on bare canvas in an effort to gain form as strips of graduated sky puncture and hold the space. The cold blue hand re-enforces the absence of a body, jarring the composition with it's formed definition.
kindly supported by Wicklow County Council, Culture Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland.
The exhibition will run until 12th of September.
For more information please click here
Stephane Simoens
Golvenstraat 7,
8300 Knokke-Zoute,
Belgium
June 2017
Volta 13, Basel
Green On Red Gallery at VOLTA Basel
Booth B09
June 12 - 17, 2017
Markthalle, BaselGreen On Red Gallery is delighted to present the work of gallery artists Alan Butler, Caroline McCarthy & Damien Flood at VOLTA Basel, ( Booth B09 ), Markthalle, Basel, between June 12-17, 2017.
Back in Basel, Damien Flood proves his considerable worth as a thinker and as an artist of real ability, capable of weaving new narratives that intrigue and draw the viewer. The bare ground in each of his paintings is, at once, provocative metaphor and stage hosting existential marks, lines, encrustations, erasures and endless non-sequiters in a vast - or is it microscopic ? - universe riddled with phantoms of this painted world caught between figure and abstraction, between memory and projection.
More about Green On Red Gallery and Volta can be found here
Damien Flood awarded the 2017 Hotron Éigse Prize
The Hotron 2017 overall Art Prize for a work of outstanding merit has been award to Damien Flood. His single painting, Counter ( 2016) in the current Éigse 2017 curated exhibition at VISUAL, Carlow, as part of the Carlow Arts Festival, was selected from a long list of contemporary Irish and international artists by Eoin Dara, Head of Exhibitions, Dundee Centre for Contemporary Art and Emma Lucy O'Brien, Curator and Galleries Coordinator at Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow. Counter was first exhibited in Damien's solo exhibition A Root that Turns as the Sun Turns in the Green On Red Gallery in 2016.
ART WORKS '17
VISUAL Carlow
7 June - 3rd September)
11am-8pm dailyFor more information click here
May 2017
Painting NOW
A group show at Green On Red Gallery
May 25 - July 22, 2017
Green On Red Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of Painting NOW, an exhibition of work in two dimensions by artists from the gallery including John Cronin, Mary FitzGerald, Damien Flood, Mark Joyce, Ramon Kassam, Fergus Martin, Niamh McCann, Caroline McCarthy & Nigel Rolfe on Thursday, May 25, 2017, 6-8pm. The exhibition runs until 27 July.
In Painting NOW the diversity of approaches is brought startlingly to light. Different materials on different surfaces show how paintings can inhabit the architecture with variety and ingenuity.
Green On Red Gallery
Park Lane
Spencer Dock ( Luas Stop 100m )
Dublin 1More info: www.greenonredgallery.com
April 2017
"Wouldn't it be nice if we could dream together?"
Group show at Diane Rosenstein Gallery, L.A
April 27 - June 10, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 27th
Palace Hotel, San Francisco -- Over Christmas:
In bed, lights out:
O: "Oh, oh oh...!"
I: "What was that for?
O: "I found your fifth rib."
In the middle of the night:
"Wouldn't it be nice if we could dream together?" O whispers.
Diane Rosenstein is pleased to announce "Wouldn't it be nice if we could dream together?" : a group show of painting, sculpture, ceramics, and works on paper by eight contemporary artists who draw the viewer into alternate worlds. The title of the show is inspired by a memoir written by Bill Hayes, about his life with his lover, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks. "Wouldn't it be nice if we could dream together?" describes a yearning for shared experience, a non-Separate, transpersonal communion that transcends consciousness, such as the power of an artist to draw the viewer into his dream.
Artists include:
Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.), Charles Fine, Damien Flood, Daniel Gibson, Yassi Mazandi, Dan Miller, Shiri Mordechay, Joe Ray
Full press release here>
DIANE ROSENSTEIN GALLERY
831 North Highland Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
t. 323.462.2790
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday
10:00am - 6:00pm
Movers and Shakers interview on Whomyouknow.com
Damien Flood was interview by Peachy Deegan for Whom You Know Website.
About Whom You Know:
“It’s not who you know that counts: it’s whom you know.” The Best of Manhattan, the American East Coast and Excellence Worldwide. Everything you've ever wanted to know about anyone and anything worth knowing about! By Peachy Deegan, Editor-In-Chief 21,000 Posts Since 2009. Thank you to our 80,000 Twitter followers.
The interview covers a wide range of topics from favorite artists and philosophers to desert island art picks.
To read the full interview please click here>
December 2016
Circa Art Magazine: Philip Kavanagh writes about 'A Root that Turns as the Sun Turns' at Green On Red Gallery.
Partings from Semblance:
Common to all the paintings in this series are forms that offer varying levels of withdrawal and distance from the memories that informed them. They appear like living fossils, symbiotically tied to each other and to the unconscious from which they seem to emerge. They give this unconscious a body and a life to populate, both inside and outside the frame, and in the lived experience the viewer brings to it.
In Simple Game, these forms float like quiet monuments, testaments to memory, to placelessness, and to a dignity beyond that which is certain. The same could be said of the objects in Parting. They emerge through a subtle violence, always orientated back towards an absence, yet simultaneously and optimistically persisting forward, like blossoming becomings, estranged yet content.
Read the full piece here
A Root that Turns as the Sun Turns
Greee On Red Gallery
Dublin
19 October - 27 November
See the full exhibition in the exhibitions section >
November 2016
FRIEZE Critics Pick for Dublin Gallery Weekend 2016
A Root that Turns as the Sun Turns at Green On Red Gallery has been selected by Gemma Tipton as a Frieze Critics pick for Dublin Gallery weekend.
Damien Flood’s enigmatic paintings tantalize and beguile. Like a forensic investigation of a Hieronymus Bosch, in which the earthly and unearthly delights have been atomised, Flood’s fragments of disembodied shapes and forms, hover and cluster on perfectly balanced canvases. There are recognizable elements: leaves, the edge of a jug, faces or masks, a match that smokes from its unlit end. But there are also less easily identifiable shapes that, begging for resolution, invite satisfying speculation
Read the full review here
A Root that Turns as the Sun Turns finshes this Sunday the 27th of November.
For more information on the exhibition visit: www.greenonredgallery.com
Green On Red Gallery
Park Lane,
Spencer Dock
1 Dublin
Talking in Brackets: Research and Reaction in Painting
A conversation between James Merrigan and Damien Flood
Saturday, November 26 at 1.15pm
On the penultimate day of Damien Flood's current exhibition at Green on Red Gallery, and almost three years on from their legendary discussion 'Painting in Parentheses (In Brackets!)', Damien Flood and James Merrigan return to the gallery to critically discuss Flood's current work and critically explore painting practice in general.
The hook for the last discussion was: painting can no longer be just painting anymore, it also has to be an Idea, or at the very least, dress itself in an Idea. The hook for this discussion is: what is the difference between a painting born of research and a painting born of instinct?
In this discussion we want to explore how research affects painting and the painter, from its compulsory adoption in art college to its necessary adaptation in the studio after art college. In the case of Flood's emotionally and physically reactive painting process, is research a lie, a mask, a case of painting fitting into a conceptual context that is "no longer its own"? Is painting's context instinctual rather than intellectual? Or does reactionary painting stem from research? When it comes to being a painter, are intellect and instinct two sides of a tossed coin?
What complicates things further is, research and reaction also come into play in the verbal reception of painting, whether casually in spoken word or carefully in the written review. How do 'you' talk and think about painting? Do you embrace painting at the base level of the medium or the elevated stage of the message? Is painting just for painters, and for painters to discuss alone? If so, how do painters deal with the inadequate response, and in most cases, the silent reaction?
Like last time around we ask you to come armed with your own opinions and questions, because like you, we are looking for answers to the questions posed, and in some ideal cases, solutions.
James Merrigan is an artist turned art critic. He has written for many art periodicals, art institutions and artist catalogues, but his role as art critic at billionjournal.com is where he has found the freedom to play with a more visceral, confessional, fun and sometimes polemical art criticism. Merrigan was selected for EVA International Biennale of Visual Art (2014) as a fugitive art critic; he was co-editor of the printed quarterly on Irish art, Fugitive Papers; and was Guest Editor of two issues of Visual Artists’ News Sheet in 2016. Current projects include DEEP-SEATED which takes as its starting point the psychoanalytic promotion of the ‘talking cure’; and All or Nothing, a film that looks at the current landscape of Irish painting told through his eyes as a lapsed painter. Most recently he was invited to curate PERIPHERIES 2017 at Gorey School of Art. He is co-ordinator and lecturer for the MPhil module Psychoanalysis and Art at Trinity College Dublin, and a tutor at Gorey School of Art. A collection of his art criticism was published in 2013 entitled Agents of Subjectivism.
After this conversation the gallery will host a Listening Party of music that influenced and inspired the work, on Sunday, November 27 at 2pm as part of Dublin Gallery Weekend, 2016.
This event is part of Dublin Gallery Weekend 2016
More info click here
To Book a place for the talk please email: info@greenonredgallery.com
Green On Red Gallery
Park Lane, Spencer Docks
(rear of the apartments)
Dublin, Dublin 1
Ireland
2116: Forecast of the next century at Broad Museum, Michigan, USA
On April 24, 1916, Irish Republicans led an armed rebellion, “the Easter Rising,” seeking to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republic. The men and women of the uprising envisioned a new Ireland as a national democracy that, in the words of their proclamation, “guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights, and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and all of its parts, cherishing all of the children of the nation equally.” The uprising was suppressed after only six days, yet it initiated a movement that resulted in Ireland’s independence six years later. In 2116, sixteen contemporary Irish artists offer a forecast of what lies ahead, from a vantage point rooted midway between the Easter Rising and the imagined Ireland of the twenty-second century.
Artists have long occupied the roles of visionaries, seers, and innovators, but predicting the future is a necessarily contingent and perhaps even impossible feat. Many of the works on display reflect the inherent uncertainty in long-term forecasting, while others present distinct images of what is to come. However, what links them all—and aligns them to the dreams that inspired many in the Easter Rising—are the artist’s vision, the sense of possibility, and the chance to look at the world around us differently than we did before.
One hundred years after the Easter Rising, as Ireland navigates its place on the periphery of a transforming Europe, this exhibition provides a platform for dialogue and conversation, and a way for Ireland to begin to imagine what its future might hold.
Exhibition artists: Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Center for Genomic Gastronomy, Amanda Coogan, Maud Cotter, Gary Coyle, Eleanor Duffin, Damien Flood, Siobhán Hapaska, Ramon Kassam, Sam Keogh, Ruth E. Lyons, Eoin Mc Hugh, Mairead O’hEocha, Niamh O’Malley, Darn Thorn, and Lee Welch.
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum
Michigan State University
East Lansing
5th November - 2nd April
For more information please visit http://broadmuseum.msu.edu/
October 2016
A Root That Turns As The Sun Turns
Solo show at Green On Red Gallery, Dublin.
Exhibition opens on the 20th of October.
A Root That Turns As The Sun Turns is a descriptive quote from Rafaello Magiotti describing Kircher’s Sunflower clock to Galileo who was imprisoned at the time for his scientific research proposing heliocentricism (the belief that the Sun is at the centre of our solar system). The Sunflower clock was believed to be a heliotropic plant, a nightshade whose seeds allegedly followed the motions of the sun when affixed to a cork bobbing in water. Nicolas Claude de Peiresc a patron of Kircher believed that this plant could prove heliocentricism, which Galileo had failed to prove with his theory of the tides in his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. Throughout Kircher’s life and with persistent requests from Peiresc this Sunflower clock was never seen. Along with Kircher’s own beautiful illustrations of it only second hand reports can be found leading a lot of scholars of the time to question his legitimacy. This did not deter his wider world following choosing to believe in his unseen wonders of the world.
The work for A Root That Turns As The Sun Turns is not centred around this ‘root’ but the notions of belief, faith and seeing, that the story entails. These mainly large scale works reflect on how belief in something unseen can change our view of the world. Art is often a self portrait, even if it is at times unintentional. These new paintings mirror a fracturing of the artists own beliefs, a stripping away of a childhood naiveté and a re-navigation of the world around him as the artist reflects on the passing of his Mother. Some works have a feeling of limbo and loss while others are celebratory in rhythm and tone.
Damien Flood will participate in a formal conversation with art writer James Merrigan on Saturday, November 26 at 1.15pm in the gallery and on Sunday, at 2pm, November 27 their will be a listening party where people can come hear music that has inspired and influenced the work on show as part of Dublin Gallery Weekend, 2016.
The exhibition will run until the 27th of November.
For more information visit: www.greenonredgallery.com
Green On Red Gallery
Park Lane,
Spencer Dock
Dublin 1
August 2016
Aidan Dunne reviews 'Terra Incognta' for the Irish Times.
Originally published 16h of August, 2016
The spare, formal grammar of the paintings in Damien Flood’s Terra Incognita, with linear flourishes and enigmatic, sometimes tear-shaped motifs against background expanses, has echoes of the great Joan Miró, though with a quite different palette
To read the full review online click here
The exhibition runs until 27th August.
DLR LexIcon,
Haigh Terrace, Dun Laoghaire.
For more info: at http://www.dlrcoco.ie/arts
Eamonn Maxwell, Director of Lismore Castle Arts shares his thoughts on Terra Incognita at dlr Lexicon.
Damien Flood is a painter. He’s not an image maker, a multi-media artist. He’s a painter. That may seem like a dumb thing to say, but it’s important. In a time when the validity of painting is under question, there’s a refreshing directness to the approach Flood takes.
You can read the full text on his blog Curatoronabike here
Terra Incognita at dlr LexIcon runs until the 27th of August.
June 2016
Terra Incognita
Solo Exhibition at DLR Lexicon, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire.
Exhibition Opens on Friday the 8th of July and runs until the 27th of August
Terra incognita or terra ignota (Latin “unknown land”) is a term used in cartography for regions that have not been mapped or documented.
Damien Flood started the DLR Visual Art Commission with a question: what is it to know a place? Recorded interviews of personal stories and historical research became a starting point for a series of new paintings which look at how we know a place through the people that live there. These works merge Flood’s perception and experience of the interviewing process with the histories gathered, to offer a unique retelling of Dun Laoghaire’s legacy through a contemporary lens.
Terra Incognita examines the changing identity of the area as depicted by the vibrant and energetic contributors. A gestural line narrates multiple voices in the paintings and links present contributors to an abstract, psychological landscape. The palette used responds emotively to each encounter, and descriptive shapes, colours and motifs build a new view of Dun Laoghaire.
The title of each work offers a key into a reinterpreted story of place and time, such as 70 year old friendships evoked in 'Playground' and a retiring Harbour Master in ‘Captain’. 'Engaged' teases out a duality between communication and society’s changing values, while ‘Cinder' reflects on the impact of a fire that destroyed a church is the 1960s. Terra Incognita mixes the universal and the personal, the life-changing and the everyday, and ask us to look at the places we know anew.
Damien Flood will be in conversation with Mary Conlon on Wednesday 3rd August.
More info http://www.dlrcoco.ie
DLR Lexicon
Marine Road
Dun Laoghaire
County Dublin
Ireland.
April 2016
A Fine Line
Group exhibition at Green On Red Gallery, Dublin.
Opening Thursday 7th of April at 6pm.
Green On Red Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of A Fine Line, a group exhibition of mostly new works by gallery artists and a first time Green On Red exhibitor. The exhibition brings together works that can be seen to teeter on the edge, the artists' use of finely judged line or linear elements can, on its own, create a charge or an impulse. It is promising to be a show with moments of elegant and finely wrought ideas and one with instances of extremes in opposition, if not on the edge of collapse.
Featuring new work by Bridget Riley, Fergus Martin, Caroline McCarthy, Damien Flood, Mark Joyce and Aoife Shanahan.
Green On Red Gallery
Spencer Dock
Park Lane
Dublin 1
For more information email:info@greenonredgallery.com
or visit:www.greenonredgallery.com
March 2016
2116: Forecast of the next century
Group show at The Lewis Glucksman Gallery
Opening 24th March by Mary McCarthy, Director, National Sculpture Factory, and Chair, Culture Ireland.
Featruing work by: Amanda Coogan, Maud Cotter, Gary Coyle, Eleanor Duffin, Damien Flood, Siobhan Hapaska, Ramon Kassam, Sam Keogh, Ruth Lyons, Eoin McHugh, Ailbhe Ni Bhriain, Mairead O'hEocha, Niamh O'Malley, Darn Thorn, Lee Welch, and the Centre for Genomic Gastronomy.
Open and invited submission selected by Chris Clarke, Caitlin Doherty and Emma-Lucy O'Brien.
2116 has been organised in collaboration with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, Mi, U.S.A.
The Lewis Glucksman Gallery
University College
Cork
January 2016
Call Out for Stories for Project With Dun Laoghaire Residents
Damien Flood invites people from or living in Dun Laoghaire to share their stories of the area for an upcoming exhibition at the dlr-Lexicon. He welcomes participants to share their personal histories of the area as well as any interesting facts or memories of notable or
colourful locals.
These stories, combined with Damien’s additional research of Dun Laoghaire’s history, will create a painting exhibition which will weave a narrative of the area; merging fact, fiction, myth and lore.
Damien will be in meeting room 1 on level 3 at the DLR Lexicon on Saturday 13th and Saturday 20th of February 2016. Participants are invited to drop in anytime between 10am - 4pm to share their stories.
As part of the project Damien is also looking for local writers or people with a particular interest in the area to submit short stories for a publication that will accompany the exhibition. These stories can be factual, personal or fictional, they can be about growing in the area or be dramatised histories. The only requirement is that the writing has a connection to the area.For additional information on the project and to email written submissions, or if you would like to get in touch with the artist at an alternative time, please contact Damien at flooddamien@gmail.com
December 2015
New Works
Group Show at Green On Red Gallery.
17th December until 20th February.
Featuring work by: John Cronin, Mary FitzGerald, Damien Flood, Arno Kramer, Fergus Martin, Niamh McCann, Caroline McCarthy, Ronan McCrea, Bridget Riley, and Nigel Rolfe, with contributing artist Ramon Kassam.
An opening reception will take place on December 17th, 2015, 17:30-20:30. Mulled wine and mince pies will be served on this festive evening.
The Gallery will be closed from December 23, 2015 to January 5th, 2016. Normal Hours will resume on January 6th, 2016.
For further information:
e: info@greenonredgallery.com
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is delighted to announce that the Visual Art Commission 2016 has been awarded to Damien Flood.
The theme of the commission is to create a new body of work that is responsive to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County. Each artist will receive a commission of €10,000.
For the dlr Visual Art Commission 2016, painter, Damien Flood (Born 1979) will create a new body of work that explores geographical elements of the area and investigate the cultural histories of the landscape, while also responding to the modern town and what it means to the local community. This exhibition will continue his interest in creating psycho-geographies of places, mixing verbal histories with personal experience. The research for this show will include interviews will local residents and retailers from the area as well as looking at Dun Laoghaire’s past, both historical and personal. The resulting paintings will aim to capture a psychological portrait of the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown area and its people. They will give the viewer a new way to view a place known so well.
The resulting exhbition will be held at the dlr Lexicon in July 2016
For more information click here
October 2015
FIAC OFFICIELLE 2015
Green On Red Gallery will be presenting new works by Damien Flood alongside works by Caroline McCarthy and Niamh McCann
at this years FIAC OFFICIELLE in Paris.
OFFICIELLE will showcase new territories: young galleries and newcomers to the international art scene; emerging artists and those whose historic contribution has been overlooked. The event will provide visitors with the opportunity to discover galleries whose exhibition programs demonstrate a particular aptitude for decoding the language of contemporary creation and a gift for revealing talents, old and new.
OFFICIELLE, FIAC’s new event, will be held in Paris from Wednesday, October 21st through Sunday, October 25th , 2014 at Les Docks - Cité de la Mode et du Design. The Vernissage will take place on October 20th.
More information can be found at:
August 2015
Jyoti Kalsi interviews Damien Flood for Gulf News on the occasion of his solo show 'Infinite Plane' at Grey Noise, Dubai.
"The titles convey my thoughts and feelings about the things I saw and experienced in Dubai, but they also reflect the metaphysical questions evoked by my experiences here."
You can read the full interview here:
July 2015
A Dubai-dérive on Damien Flood's Infinite Plane
Rachel Bennet on Infinite Plane at Grey Noise.
Flood's own gestures dashed on the canvas are both place and person, and neither. They're a conflation and invention as memory is wont to do. But there's magic in these sensory encounters; he recounts, almost reminisces, "a kind of alchemical process takes place when you first experience something. It cannot be restructured or recreated - those little sparks can only be alluded to."
You can read the full text on Fat Nancy's New Diet by clicking here.
INTER NATION ART
a groupshow of contemporary art @ HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia.
1st to 17th July 2015
art is truly universal
nations are artificial
If this claim holds true then we must examine the way in which art crosses borders, how styles and stylistics exist as codes that are bigger than any national territory and, as such, hold more importance than a passport representing a single nation. This undertaking is especially important today, with the emerging tendency of a re-nationalisation across the European continent.Participating artists:
Arion Asllani (Serbia) - Marc Bijl (Netherlands) - Emmanuel Bornstein (France) - Anina Brisolla (Germany) - Joanna Buchowska (Poland) - Nick Crow and Ian Rawlison (UK) - Tjaša ÄŒuš (Slovenia) - Alexandre Farto aka Vhils (Portugal) - Damien Flood (Ireland) - Andreas Golder (Russia) - Giuseppe Lana (Italy) - Damian & Delaine Le Bas (Roma U.K) - Cathrine Lorent (Luxemburg) - Jaakko Mattila (Finnland) - Ekaterina Mitichkina (White Russia) - Admir Mujkic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - Manfred Peckl (Austria) - Jovana Popic - Igor Rakcevic (Montengro) - Sara Riel (Iceland) - Mark Schovanek (Check Republik, Canada) - Stipan Tadic (Croatia) - Alex Tzannis (Greece) - Anton Unai (Spain) - Cem Ulug (Turkey) - Sahar Zukerman (Israel)Curated by Jan Kage
Opening speech by Dr. Mark Terkessidis (Germany / Greece)
Musical performance by Thomas Mahmoud-Zahl (Germany / Egypt)Being part of a generation that grew up with the transnational project of the EEC (the European Economic Community that became the European Union), and having witnessed the collapse of the iron curtain, history seemed to be moving inexorably towards diminished national control and a wider transcontinental identity. This identity was necessarily rooted in a commonly shared cultural history and, implicitly, the art styles of the 20th century which themselves came from diverse national backgrounds: Expressionism, Constructivism, Dada, Pop – the list is long.
Inter Nation Art shows a generation of European artists that shared this experience. We will bring their art works to Zagreb, a city that experienced quite the opposite some twenty years ago: The collapse of a multi-ethnic state.
June 2015
The Studio Chronicles
June 11 - September 5, 2015.
Departing from the specificities of such model "The Studio's chronicles" is an exhibition that brings together a selection of talented artists particularly concerned with the possibilities of a painterly practice. The present project embraces the medium through the diversity of approaches and perspectives characterizing the artists involved. It imagines the exhibition space as platform for an organic dialogue among different authors and it folds the conversations initiated with them both in the conceptual and visual configuration of the show.The show intends to explore ways in which the moments of exchange and conversation taking place in the studio varies from one artist to another. What roles they play in the development of each practice, how they're differently performed and how they manifest and infiltrate in the ultimate work. Here the term conversation takes on several different meanings, it has to be read in a more general sense as the reciprocity between the artists and the medium they explore, between artistic and curatorial practices, between the creative space of the studio and that of the exhibition.
Participating artists: Alessia Armeni, Damien Flood, Nicholas John Jones, Aurora Passero, Daniel Schubert.
RH Contemporary Art
437 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
https://www.rhcontemporaryart.com
May 2015
PRODUCT RECALL
Galway Arts Centre
30 May - 4 July
Responding to the imagined 'recall' of an idea or a situation, Product Recall strives to eviscerate the meaning of the displaced, misfiring 'product'; whether real or imagined, and explore the credo of material culture (gone bad).
Prompted by the protocols adopted by global conglomerations to retrieve products that could maim or even kill the consumer, Product Recall invites four artists to respond to the implications of the necessity to rescind an invitation to consume, buy, assimilate or adopt.The predominately new work shown in this exhibition spans installation, video, paintings, drawings and performance, each in its own way considering the implications of a system gone askew, where accepted norms break down, transform and reorder themselves into that which may no longer function as initially intended. The collective ideations around the temporal world challenge the viewer to confront their own relationship with the object- product, the apparent crux of 21st century Western society.
Participating artists: Damien Flood (IRL), Veronica Forsgren (SWE), Tom Watt (IRL), and Sarah Baker (USA)
Curated by Anne Mullee
Opening reception is 6pm on the 29th May 2015 at the Galway Arts Centre. For more information visit: https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/exhibitions/19-product-recall?lang=en.
Infinite Plane
Solo exhibition at Grey Noise, Dubai.
Opening 25th May. Exhibition runs until 31st June.Guy, Lovers, Corset, from Flood's verbal leg-ups we find purchase on the painted stuff that make up the artist's very own cosmology. Deliberate squiggles drawn with the tip of a loaded paint brush give definition, perform perspective leaps, and knit the marvellous matter of Flood's nebulous universe together. We maybe underwater, in a dream, or wandering across the cornea of something other? Whatever the lens these freshly discovered new geographies challenge the capacity of the mind's eye to construct a safe vantage point from which to begin looking, anew.
For his exhibition at Grey Noise, Damien Flood undertook a two-week research trip to Dubai and the surrounding areas of Sharjah and the cost of Oman. This trip formed a starting point for the paintings in 'Infinite Plane'. Flood documented his time through drawing, photography and text, in particular examining the juxtaposition of the newly built landscape with the enveloping historical areas. The paintings tow a line between abstract and figurative, at points becoming artefacts of his journey or records of witnessed events. The work offers the viewer a mood and feeling of the landscape while delving into the psychology of being a spectator in a new land.
This exhibition was made possible by the kind support of the Arts Council of Ireland, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Travel Award and Culture Ireland.
More information at www.greynoise.org.
April 2015
NGORONGORO
During Berlin's Gallery Weekend, the vast studio complex of Lehder Strasse 34, in Berlin-Weissensee is the site for an extensive group exhibition featuring 100 Berlin based and international artists.Echoing this primordial ecosystem, the exhibition sees a kaleidoscopic survey of artistic practise coming together in one event, staged within the creative crucible of art's origins - the studio. The combination of names such as John Bock, Mat Collishaw, Birgit Dieker, Martin Eder, Douglas Gordon, Asta Gröting, Stefanie Hillich, Pe Lang, Polly Morgan, Bruce Nauman, Anri Sala, Thomas Zipp, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, demonstrates the complex networks that artists build amongst themselves, a phenomenon that has, so far, been little explored. Therefore the artist list is not defined by the usual curatorial criteria of concept, form or discourse - but primarily based on intuition. The result is a dynamic confrontation of equally-weighted participants, illustrating the initiators' artistic reference system and the extensive diversity of their network.
EXHIBITION OPENING
30 April Preview 2pm, Party 8pmOPENING HOURS
1 - 3 May 10am - 12pmPress preview: 29 April 12 - 4pm, Please RSVP until 27 April 2015
March 2015
Cú Chulainn Comforted
Group exhibition at Basic Space, Dublin.
A MAN that had six mortal wounds, a man
Violent and famous, strode among the dead;
Eyes stared out of the branches and were gone.Exhibiting artists: Neal Tait, Damien Flood, Sanja Todorović, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Mathis Gasser, Billy Mag Fhloinn.
Curated by Joshua Sex
Opening reception: 5th March 2015. Basic Space, Eblana House, Marrowbone Lane.
Exhibition runs 6th - 13th March 2015. Opening hours vary. Please check our facebook.
www.basicspace.ie