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Past Exhibition > Felim Egan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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13 March - 5 April, 2008 Felim Egan 'New Work' The Vangard Gallery is delighted to announce a show of new work by internationally acclaimed Irish artist, Felim Egan. Egan is known as a painter of restrained eloquence, who sparingly deploys a vocabulary of hieroglyphic motifs over monochromatic expanses of colour. His paintings are built up slowly with layers of thin colour applied to the surface and stone powder ground into the acrylic. The work is universal in spirit and emotionally intimate. His paintings are epiphanic, in that they convey to us the essential nature or meaning of something of which we were previously unaware. He is an artist of quite formal abstract images, and yet his work is tied to place, to the long horizons, big skies and empty sands of the Strand and sea beside his studio. In this way his abstract paintings are almost landscapes, with a magical quality that his neighbour, the poet Seamus Heaney, has aptly described 'a balance of shifting brilliances.' Egan has exhibited extensively abroad, participating in the 1980 Biennale de Paris, representing Ireland in the Biennale de Sao Paolo. He was awarded the Premier UNESCO Prize for the Arts in Paris in 1983, and in 1997 he received the Gold Award at Cagnes-sur-Mer. Other solo exhibitions have been held in Belfast, London, Edinburgh, Cologne, New York, Boston and Washington. Large scale commissions include works for Dublin Castle and the National Gallery of Ireland. Felim Egan's work is represented in numerous collections both public and private, including those of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Deutsche Bank, London; Frtiz-Winter-Haus, Moderne Kunst Museum, Ahlen, Germany; Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Credit Suisse First, Boston, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Trinity College, Dublin, Allied Irish Banks, Dublin, London, Brussels; An Comhairle Ealaion/The Arts Council and the European Parliament. |
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Vangard Gallery, Carey's Lane, Cork T: 021 4278718 F: 021 4278719 E: info@vangardgallery.com |
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