Green On Red Gallery announce September an exhibition without borders - an exhibition of new and existing works by gallery artists plus new artists.
September is a cross-section of artists working in a wide variety of media and from many different cultures, partly to emphasise the beauty of open borders and open minds. There isn’t a fixed them to September but the show will allow thje artists’ works to set the conversation and to create an open dialogue between multiple worldviews from different eras.
New to the gallery are Drogheda, based artist and curator Brian Hegarty and the late Slovakian artist and stalwart of Eastern European avant-garde from the 1960’s on, Július Koller (d. 2007).
Hegarty’s creates works between painting, sculpture and assemblage. He uses everyday materials such as a paper and cardboard, highlighting theprocess of cuttering, folding, layering and repairing. His works deliberately reveal their construction and fragility, reflecting instability and uncertainty.
Koller explores arts as a form of cultural and political action. Influenced by the political changes in Czechoslovakia during the late 1980’s, he questions the contradictions between utopian ideals and everyday reality. His work often incorporates self-portraits, ordinary objects, and symbols, particularly the question mark, which represents doubt, curiosity and openness.
Brian Hegarty Total Sound 2022 Paper on wood, triptych 366 × 244 cm
Július Koller Univerzálny Objekt/Universal Object (U.F.O.) 1978 Felt-tip pen, wire, latex paint on hardboard 14.5 x 20 x 2 cm
Július Koller Bez Nazue/Untitled 1990 oil on metal 50 x 10 x 3 cm
Július Koller Meditácia/Meditation (U.F.O.) 1983 B & W photograph Edition 1/6 66.5 x 47 x 3 cm Printed 2020
Gallery artists include Kirstin Arndt (drawings), Nigel Rolfe (photoworks), Alan Butler (deskscapes), Tom Hunter, Scott Lyall (painting), Niamh McCann (polished brass silkscreen) and Nil Yalter (video).
Nigel Rolfe Dust ( I - VI ) 2011 potograph on 185 gm Somerset 63 × 80 cm
Scott Lyall
Talent 2023
UV-cured inkejt on glass, mirror, acrvili, gel medium, gold nano-particles, handwood frame 121.9 × 87.6 × 5.1 cm
Tom Hunter
Bull Island 2006
C-type print on alluminium
Edition of 5 76.2 × 96.2 cm
Kirstin Arndt
Untitled 2011
Acrylic on plywood 32 × 24 cm
Nil Yalter
Lords Byron Meets The Shaman Woman 2009
Video 11min, 16 sec
The exhibition highlights art as a way to question society, explore uncertainty and encourage dialogue between different cultures and perspectives. It values expression, the use of everyday materials and symbols to communicate deeper ideas.