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Colette Murphy: "Gone to Ground"
Opening: Friday, 10 September 2010, 7:00 - 10:00 pm
The artist will be on hand
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Of course “perceive“ is the telling word in this quotation: Does the artists’s perception reflect some sort of higher truth or simply another delusion? And what happens when that perception is transferred to paint?
It is our great pleasure to invite you to “Gone to Ground“ by Colette Murphy, the next painting exhibition in the EMERSON Gallery Berlin. The exhibition is the Irish-American painter’s first solo show in the Emerson Gallery Berlin and also her premier in Europe.
Murphy creates allegorical painting cycles combining bits of politics, social criticism, personal memories and a fascination with the formal elements of painting. The pictorial narratives have the mysterious quality of unsolvable riddles, imbued with a sense of forboding. Her latest series depicts scenes from a fox hunt, the very English ritual first banned in 2005. Blood and violence are never directly portrayed, but they are constantly present on a subliminal level or through painterly flashes of images such as a surrealist blaze in the background of the main action. Her concerns remain very contemporary, however, and the viewer is left to decode the paintings as a warning of imminent environmental disaster, criticism of the continuing “war on terror“ or the artist’s very personal ambivalence relating to childhood memories of beloved adults taking part in a very real but nevertheless nightmarish fox hunt.
Duration of the Exhibition: 11 September - 30 October 2010
Opening Hours: Tues. - Fri. 2:00 - 7:00 pm, Sat. 12:00 - 4:00 pm and by appointment
With kind appreciation to THE CORPORATE SUPPORTERS PROGRAM.
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