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La Société des Amis du Crime (Vicky Langan and Paul Hegarty) DJ set at Oblik Gallery's exhibition opening 'In Light of Dark Matter'. We're going to be playing some spacious sounds from 6.30 pm.
www.myspace.com/desamisducrime
Facebook event page here...
Artists:
Jone Kvie (Stavanger, Norway)
http://www.kvie.nu/
Brian Walsh (Dublin, Ireland)
http://www.recirca.com/reviews/2005/brianwalsh/bw.shtml
Edmund Burke claimed that the sublime was transcendent, beyond human creation, the embodiment of ideas so grand as to be transcendent, incomprehensible to humans. Jone Kwie’s sculptural forms bring us right to this limit of understanding. Cosmic phenomena, atomic detonations at the silent moment when time ceases to matter and for a split second we think we might see something beyond. Aesthetic unfoldings, nanoseconds before the rapture disappears and we are left with doubt, empty logic and fear. Jone Kwie’s sculptural forms bring us to the edge of this nothingness, leaving us with the brief sense of bliss before the sublime fades to an afterimage on the abyss. As Carl Sagan said, the vastness is unbearable.
Brian Walsh is a producer of three-dimensional images. He is not particularly interested in sculptural values - in inner proportion, movement in stasis, materiality. What interests him is the occupation of space, and the values of such occupation: scale and size, invasive imagery from other spaces, and that focal point of visual occupancy - the viewer - either brought uncomfortably to awareness of their position at the centre of the lines of visual order, or faced with a viewing other, already occupying their place. The field of experience to which his images belong is easily recognised: war, remote control and sensing, surveillance, visual technology as environmental power. But Walsh’s three-dimensional objects are irreducible to a thematic commentary on such experience: they are truly visual and spatial affairs, a way of thinking and representation that interacts with more verbal forms, but remains quite separate and distinct.
Jone Kvie is an artist, sculptor born in Stavanger and is represented by Elastic, Malmö and Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen.
Brian Walsh is an, artist and educator based in Dublin.
Ola Gustafsson is the Director of Elastic Gallery, Malmo, Sweden.
David Dobz O’Brien is an artist, curator, founding member of Art/not art and the Programmes Manager Of the National Sculpture Factory.
6 X 2 X 2 is a series of 6 exhibitions; Each exhibition consists of 1 international curator and Irish curator David Dobz O’Brien; 1 international artist and 1 Irish artist and it is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Cork City Council. In Light of Dark Matter is No. 2 in this series. Thanks to National Sculpture Factory for all its support.
