Pádraig Timoney “Peace Torques”
Andrew Kreps Gallery
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Andrew Kreps presents Pádraig Timoney’s third solo show at the gallery, entitled Peace Torques. Featuring painting, sculpture and installation the exhibition is based on poems by Lin Shang-Yin (813-858BC) known as The Walls of Emerald. Described as “dense and allusive”, adequate translation is thought almost impossible. Issues of fragmentation and the disavowal of a sense or expectation of completion have been at the core of Timoney’s mercurial practice for over 20 years.
In appearance Timoney’s paintings are radically diverse. He deploys an expansive repertoire – using expressive and hard-edged abstraction, realism, text and graphics, chemical treatments and found objects – to construct unique sets of images. These amount to an exploration of how paintings and their images are constructed, as objects and representations of phenomena. Timoney’s work is in part founded in the classical role of the artist, recording subjective experience. Following playful idiosyncratic associations he breaks down and reconstructs what he reads, dreams, observes or thinks. In other instances he treats the canvas as space for alchemical-like transformations where mental processes, ideas and experience are materialised. Through various approaches to the reconstruction of images – materially, cognitively and perceptually – Timoney plays out his imagination over a dazzling variety of surfaces.
Pádraig Timoney was born in Derry, Northern Ireland and is currently based in New York. His recent exhibitions include a retrospective of works at Raven Row, and an upcoming show at MADRE Naples both in 2013. Recent gallery shows include Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, 2012; Shepard Tone, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, 2012; Instead of Being Lucky, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, 2010; and Buenas Noches, Laser, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, 2010.
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Schedule
from November 09, 2013 to January 11, 2014
Opening Reception on 2013-11-09 from 18:00 to 20:00