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Item Number: 134225
Title: PADRAIG TIMONEY : Microtome
Author: Rabbottini, Alessandro
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788837098438
Description: Milano: Electa, 2014. 31cm., hardcover, 224pp. illus. Exhibition held at MADRE, Napoli. Italian-English texts. Summary: This mid-career retrospective – which includes more than fifty works created over the last twenty years – also represents a symbolic return of the artist to Naples, a city that Timoney had chosen as his place of residence and production from 2004 to 2011, before moving to New York. The artist pays homage to Naples starting with the title of the show, which cites the opening words of ‘O Cunto ‘E Masaniello, a song published in 1974 by Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare. Pádraig Timoney’s work is a deep and personal exploration of all the languages of painting and the nature of images, created with different means of expression: in addition to the main medium of painting, the artist makes use of photography, sculpture and installation, creating a visual universe marked by a radical eclecticism. Before a series of works by Timoney, you may have the impression of being in a group exhibition, the styles, techniques and moods that define his work are that different: abstraction coexists with the most faithful photo-realism, movement is accompanied by an almost meditative aesthetic, while a scholarly relationship with the history of art is combined with an understanding of the more contemporary, even trivial, aspects of our globalised and digital culture.
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