Page 88 - The Venice Biennale 2001 issue of World of Art Magazine

veRnissAge by Tamara Pasztor

RevieW Of exhibiTiOns

ESSENCE OF AN ACTUAL addition, still and moving pictures elucidate panoramas of blustering squalls, nevertheless,
WORLD human nature in a transcendent manner. there is a rudimentary mark of gestural images,
This form of art opens the cimmerian region
firm structure, and a naturalistic style.
TRAcey TARLing admidst the physical and psyche captured In the main, for Bobbie Burgers, her works of
bAu-xi gALLeRy in a single frame. art are wholly connected to colour.
uppeR gALLeRy natalie kovacs seizes upon the optical
TOROnTO cAnADA
“…In their vivid coloring of life, segments of video and photographic dialogue
As in that fleeting, shadows, misty strife side by side with personal observation. By michAeL kiLLen
Of semblance with reality, which brings utilizing still photography and loop frame grabs, kennys gALLeRy
To the delirious eye, more lovely things the artist intersperses a metaphorical exhibition gALWAy iReLAnD
Of Paradise and Love-and all our own…” of emotional closeness and distance. Sculptor Michael killen
Edgar Allan Poe / Dreams In conversation, the spectator is compelled disseminates a classical
Tracey Tarling accents the to enter the level of awareness in which the antiquated idiosyncrasy
cimmerian region, the twilight intercommunication between the conscious through his works of art.
division between the physical and subconscious obtain access to these After spending four years
body and the existence of realms of possibility. studying sculpture in
dunlaoghaire School of
the psyche, in the works of Video projections and light boxes challenge Art, (co.dublin, Ireland),
art. In her strive for the idyllic each other with frozen and moving pictures. In the artist had obtained a
essential attributes of reality, this case, kovacs manipulates focus and freeze scholarship issued from the
the artist has seized upon the by employing the reflective and binary procedure Italian government in order THE SWIMMEr
And A nEglEcTEd BronZE, 2001
lookIng-glASS subliminal recurrent nature of with her camera. to extend his education 28x24 cM
WATErcoloUr, 1868 Mankind where daily activity The point of in Italy at the Academy of
15.2 cM x 11.4 cM
is interspersed with slumber convergence In conversation fine Arts (florence).
and repose. is the conception of human Thenceforth, Michael relocated to Pietrasanta,
Tarling paints with oil, solvent transfers, prospects, affinity, and a town situated in the carrara/lucca region.
charcoal, and graphite on plaster and wood. fortitude within a captured It was here, that Michael killen mastered the
stone-carving technique from the giannoni family
This permits the artist to experiment with image. in their workshop on the Via Aurelia.
intangible aqueous depictions “like the single “Moving and still pictures resettling back in Ireland, the sculptor secured
celled creatures and plants floating in the WHIcH WAY ArE is the Visual meeting his workshop in Malahide co., dublin. A
YoU goIng To? place of The Self and the
murky, liquid pool of my paintings…Time dUrATrAnS PHoTogrAPH majority of his artistic proficiency is within
has its way. Time what calls rain the fall In lIgHTBox, 2001 documented reflection of the sphere of wood, stone, bronze, and
through fingers, no matter how tightly we 24” x 30” the mortal Soul.” graphic materials.
hold watery truth. In the remembering, we Michael killen’s commissions range from large
begin to forget.” public pieces and small private collections.
In fact, Tracey’s aesthetic notion is not FROM NEAR AND FAR Possessing an aptitude to portray each and
dissimilar from Victorian British painter, Eleanor bObbie buRgeRs every mien of life, Michael probes into the
motifs of the great famine of Ireland, Modern
Vere Boyle (1825-1916). And A neglected bAux-ix gALLeRy life, Music, and Wildlife.
looking-glass (1868), this whimsical, yet TOROnTO cAnADA Inspired by the Italian renaissance sculptor
enchanting canvas offers a view of a broken dignified in their soothing donatello, there is a lyrical semblance existing
glass nestled between an odd assortment of and monochromatic palette in Michael’s art. Even though the sculptor
crawling ivy, dead foliage, a peacock feather, scheme, the canvases of is not imitating donatello, the freedom of
microscopic insects, gossamer wings of a Vancouver artist, Bobbie movement contrived by the renaissance master
moth, and the reflection of a mouse. Both Burgers can be characterized is apparent, for instance, children Playing and
Boyle and Tarling (Within Sleep flight:dialogues as being: “An image that will cantoria (donatello). of course, the time frame
Between rest and light) achieve realism flicker into my minds eye and style is dissimilar. nonetheless, the two artists
to a high degree of intense magnitude in like sheets of colour, wild, display the same exquisite figural interaction,
unity, and flowing movement.
watercolour (Eleanor Vere Boyle) and mixed loose-charcoal drawings, onE TIME
AcrYlIc on cAnVAS, 2001 At present, Michael killen is working on a
media (Tracey Tarling) that their images conjure delicious drips of paint, thick 32 x 24 In commission for a fourteenth century norman
an enhanced level of fantasy. heavy brushstrokes…shaping castle in Swords (co.dublin). The project is
into paintings that juxtapose what one sees to gradually restore the citadel. on the other
from a closer viewpoint to that of a faraway hand, killen’s task is to design and carve six
IN CONVERSATION image.” (-Bobbie Burgers). grotesque animal heads for a five-foot span
nATALie kOvAcs A breadth of unconstrained wakefulness chandelier and secondly, to decorate the three
beams which have a head at each end.
AngeLL gALLeRy sweeps over Storm Passing in association with The two works of art can be viewed at kennys
TOROnTO cAnADA Watching The Tempest (Winslow Homer). Both gallery (galway, Ireland). Michael killen’s
The aesthetic rendition of photographic art painters bring into substance an unfolding forthcoming exhibition at kennys gallery shall not
has unveiled the sophistry of racial, cultural, tale where the spectator is apt to compose be announced until october 2002.
and numinous ambient circumstances. In the next stage, off the canvas.
Even if Burgers and Homer portray opposite

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