Come Together
Nina Canell, Clodagh Emoe,
Linda Quinlan
28 June - 11 August 2007
This exhibition comprises new work by three emerging artists who live in Ireland. It will include sculpture, photographs, drawings, and films.
Early discussions with the artists focussed on Mount Analogue the extraordinary early 20th century novel by Rene Daumal, a surrealist, Sanskrit scholar, poet, philosopher, and later a pupil of Gurdjieff. The book is a spiritual autobiography transposed into fantastic fiction: during the voyage towards the mythical mountain it becomes clear to the narrator and his friends that a search for inner knowledge and a quest for a new way of living are at the heart of their journey. The book was never completed.
Although the artists have used Mount Analogue as a kind of touchstone, this is not a thematic exhibition. They have worked independently. What the artists share, at least in this context, is a mood of tentative hopefulness.
A catalogue, containing an essay by Declan Long and an interview with the artists by Barry White, accompanies this exhibition.
Early discussions with the artists focussed on Mount Analogue the extraordinary early 20th century novel by Rene Daumal, a surrealist, Sanskrit scholar, poet, philosopher, and later a pupil of Gurdjieff. The book is a spiritual autobiography transposed into fantastic fiction: during the voyage towards the mythical mountain it becomes clear to the narrator and his friends that a search for inner knowledge and a quest for a new way of living are at the heart of their journey. The book was never completed.
Although the artists have used Mount Analogue as a kind of touchstone, this is not a thematic exhibition. They have worked independently. What the artists share, at least in this context, is a mood of tentative hopefulness.
A catalogue, containing an essay by Declan Long and an interview with the artists by Barry White, accompanies this exhibition.
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