Mere Coincidence?
New work by Fintan Friel
Friday, September 11th 2009 6-9pm
(Music by DJ Caroline)
Unit H Gallery, The Market Studios, Halston St. Dublin 7
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'Perhaps true, total photography is a pile of fragments of private images, against the creased background of massacres and coronations.'
Italo Calvino (The adventure of a Photographer) 1958.
The title of this exhibition 'Mere Coincidence?' refers to how meaning is constructed in the context of Art practice, how ambiguous narratives become solid forms and how 'mistakes are the portals of discovery' (James Joyce). The exhibition opens on September 11th and includes a work which specifically references the mediation of the 9/11 disaster. The front page of the New York Times from the day after 9/11 is sampled and re-configured with personal photographs, replacing the spectacular with the subjective, opening a narrative involving individual personal experience of the event in terms of mediated and personal memory.
Using the motif of a vandal 'keying' a car this classic, minimal graffiti mark is referenced, deconstructed and re-constructed throughout the show in a series of works which explore the context of public space (the street) combining photography, screen-print and spray-paint. The exhibition culminates in a newly created public space which Friel has renovated and produced using found materials from the local Market area. Installing seating and a DJ facility this out-door roof-space has been re-purposed as a club (social space) called 'Mere Coincidence?' for the opening night and the music will be provided by DJ Caroline (found tunes and electro\market beats re-mixed for your dancing pleasure).
Fintan Friel graduated from The University of Ulster in Belfast in 1992 with a BA(Hons) in Fine Art and his casual and mundane relationship with graffiti has grown out of living and working in New York and Melbourne. He has been resident in The Market Studios since July '08 and previous exhibitions include 'Rhythm-a-Ning' which was commissioned by Context Gallery (Derry).
Unit H Gallery, The Market Studios, Halston St. Dublin 7
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'Perhaps true, total photography is a pile of fragments of private images, against the creased background of massacres and coronations.'
Italo Calvino (The adventure of a Photographer) 1958.
The title of this exhibition 'Mere Coincidence?' refers to how meaning is constructed in the context of Art practice, how ambiguous narratives become solid forms and how 'mistakes are the portals of discovery' (James Joyce). The exhibition opens on September 11th and includes a work which specifically references the mediation of the 9/11 disaster. The front page of the New York Times from the day after 9/11 is sampled and re-configured with personal photographs, replacing the spectacular with the subjective, opening a narrative involving individual personal experience of the event in terms of mediated and personal memory.
Using the motif of a vandal 'keying' a car this classic, minimal graffiti mark is referenced, deconstructed and re-constructed throughout the show in a series of works which explore the context of public space (the street) combining photography, screen-print and spray-paint. The exhibition culminates in a newly created public space which Friel has renovated and produced using found materials from the local Market area. Installing seating and a DJ facility this out-door roof-space has been re-purposed as a club (social space) called 'Mere Coincidence?' for the opening night and the music will be provided by DJ Caroline (found tunes and electro\market beats re-mixed for your dancing pleasure).
Fintan Friel graduated from The University of Ulster in Belfast in 1992 with a BA(Hons) in Fine Art and his casual and mundane relationship with graffiti has grown out of living and working in New York and Melbourne. He has been resident in The Market Studios since July '08 and previous exhibitions include 'Rhythm-a-Ning' which was commissioned by Context Gallery (Derry).
v. nice.
ReplyDeletebeautiful photos. i love the effect of the art against the graffiti-ed wall.
ReplyDeletei couldn't watch the vids on my weak-a$$d signal. tho- looking forward to viewing them.
Hey Fintan--thanks for the link, interesting work!! Keep in touch, im living in Stockholm at the mo, keeping the art alive as they say. Love to know how you get on in London-keep me posted!!
ReplyDeleteI'm liking this - lets have some more mere coincidence....
ReplyDeletegreat stuff! ah sure.. MIGHTY!
ReplyDeleteHey, interesting stuff. What a shame that we are not in Dublin in September. Thanks for the link though. I really like the idea of subliminal text imbedded within the scenarios.
ReplyDeleteWas nice to meet you in McGings. We had a great time in the Emerald Isle.
Colette
ReplyDeleteHey, interesting stuff. What a shame that we are not in Dublin in September. Thanks for the link though. I really like the idea of subliminal text imbedded within the scenarios.
Was nice to meet you in McGings. We had a great time in the Emerald Isle.
Whoot!
ReplyDeletelooks great Fintan. I wouln't mind a local like tht round my neighbourhood!
Much regards from melburn town!
andymac