ReViewed by Se‡n Hillen
Opening 6pm Ð 8pm, Wednesday 8th
February 2012
The Copper House Gallery
off Synge Street, Dublin 8
Director of the Gallery of Photography Tanya Kiang
will open the exhibition.
Artist Se‡n HillenÕs distinctive photo-collage
artworks have circulated in the Irish consciousness for decades. ReViewed, a new exhibition of monumental scale prints
provides an entirely new and intimate insight into his artistic vision.
Fintan O'Toole described his work as having Òboth an intellectual and a popular
appealÓ, writing ÒHillenÕs surreal juxtapositions inhabit a weirdly prescient
and ruefully realistic representation of contemporary IrelandÓ.
This collaboration with The Copper House Gallery,
a Dublin city-centre art space, has resulted in an innovative re-presentation
of the artists' work by the gallery curator, Leszek Wolnik.
Radical new scanning technology and skills
deployed at The Copper House reveal details of his finely crafted microscopic
world which have previously been inaccessible to the naked eye. Magnifying each
surreal detail of Se‡n Hillen's collages, these museum scale reproductions
reveal a sensual new landscape of complexity and surprise.
This exhibition showcases Se‡n HillenÕs
distinctive and provocative perspective, from the controversial Troubles photomontages, now on permanent display at the
Imperial War Museum, to the acclaimed IRELANTIS collage series. The inclusion of the
Swiftian Searching for Evidence and WHATÕS WRONG?.. images underscores the seductively subversive
nature of HillenÕs practice and permits deeper insight into the evolution of
his aesthetic.
Collectors of Se‡n HillenÕs work will be
interested that all four series have been included in one show for the first
time.
Launched in September 2011 by Minister for Arts,
Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan T.D., The Copper House is a new
artistic resource housing a gallery served by dynamic art facilitation and curatorial
skills. The Copper House Gallery contains a Fine Art publishing facility with
advanced origination and fine art print making. The gallery is currently
building and commissioning an original print studio which will contain
Ireland's largest selection of fine art and photographic editioned prints.
ReViewed runs at The Copper
House Gallery from 8th February until 2nd March 2012. Admission is free to this event and all are
welcome.
For further information please contact
Orla Martin;
Email orla@fire.ie
Tel
01 478 4088
http://thecopperhousegallery.wordpress.com