Eoin Mc Hugh
14 Nov - 23 Dec 2014
EOIN MC HUGH
the skies will be friendlier then
14 November - 23 December 2014
Eoin Mc Hugh creates hyper-real – hyper-surreal – imagery. 'the skies will be friendlier then' marks a major development within Mc Hugh’s practice, introducing ambitiously complex sculptural and textile works. Several Persian rugs are reconstructed as large-scale collages where forms are suggested from neutral abstract patterns in conflict. An enormous flayed and headless beast, like something never before witnessed, is in turn confronted by an equally otherworldly crouching infant. These works, accompanied by an intimate oil painting of a woman lying in foetal position, apparently cite the early history and aesthetics of psychoanalysis and the poetry of Wallace Stevens and Seamus Heaney. However, with the deployment of the surreal and the hyper-surreal, these references are by no means immediately obvious. Through suspension of disbelief, Mc Hugh strives to constantly keep the viewer questioning how they process images, preventing one definitive interpretation being extracted from the work.
Eoin Mc Hugh’s solo shows include Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2013); TR1 Kunsthalle, Tampere, Finland (2012); Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2009); Centre d’art Contemporain, Château des Adhémar, Montélimar, France (2008); TBG+S, Dublin (2006). Group shows include 'Interlude', Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2011); 'Perfect Solitude', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam; 'Thingamajig', Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland; 'Terror and the Sublime', Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (2010); 'Flight of the Dodo', Project Arts Centre, Dublin; 'Warming to Rabelais, Like Things Frozen', FRAC Languedoc-Rousillon, Abbaye de Lagrasse, Lagrasse (2008); 'Don’t Box me in', Galeria Leme, San Paolo; 'Rendez Vous', in conjunction with the Lyon Biennale, France (2007) travelling to Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (2008); 'The Square Root of Drawing', TBG+S, Dublin; EV+A, Limerick (2006); ‘Precaution’, Irish Museum of Modern Art (2005).
the skies will be friendlier then
14 November - 23 December 2014
Eoin Mc Hugh creates hyper-real – hyper-surreal – imagery. 'the skies will be friendlier then' marks a major development within Mc Hugh’s practice, introducing ambitiously complex sculptural and textile works. Several Persian rugs are reconstructed as large-scale collages where forms are suggested from neutral abstract patterns in conflict. An enormous flayed and headless beast, like something never before witnessed, is in turn confronted by an equally otherworldly crouching infant. These works, accompanied by an intimate oil painting of a woman lying in foetal position, apparently cite the early history and aesthetics of psychoanalysis and the poetry of Wallace Stevens and Seamus Heaney. However, with the deployment of the surreal and the hyper-surreal, these references are by no means immediately obvious. Through suspension of disbelief, Mc Hugh strives to constantly keep the viewer questioning how they process images, preventing one definitive interpretation being extracted from the work.
Eoin Mc Hugh’s solo shows include Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2013); TR1 Kunsthalle, Tampere, Finland (2012); Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2009); Centre d’art Contemporain, Château des Adhémar, Montélimar, France (2008); TBG+S, Dublin (2006). Group shows include 'Interlude', Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2011); 'Perfect Solitude', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam; 'Thingamajig', Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland; 'Terror and the Sublime', Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (2010); 'Flight of the Dodo', Project Arts Centre, Dublin; 'Warming to Rabelais, Like Things Frozen', FRAC Languedoc-Rousillon, Abbaye de Lagrasse, Lagrasse (2008); 'Don’t Box me in', Galeria Leme, San Paolo; 'Rendez Vous', in conjunction with the Lyon Biennale, France (2007) travelling to Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (2008); 'The Square Root of Drawing', TBG+S, Dublin; EV+A, Limerick (2006); ‘Precaution’, Irish Museum of Modern Art (2005).