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WEB
Brian Fay
June 11 - July 31, 2005
The Butler Gallery is delighted to present Web, an exhibition of new work
by
Brian Fay.
Web is a drawing installation comprised of a series of wall mounted
graphite
drawings on paper, as well as a large-scale drawing made directly onto
one
of the gallery1s walls and an animated digital drawing projection.
An artist and lecturer in Fine Art at the Dublin Institute of Technology,
the central concern in Brian Fays1 art practice is the continuing relevance
of obsolete modes of communication in a contemporary art context. To
date
Fay has worked in a variety of disciplines including drawing, installation,
print and digital video to investigate how these forms work, and to explore
the role of art as a meaningful vehicle for communication.
Web traces the effect of time on materials and surfaces of paintings.
Referring both to a spider1s web and to the phenomenon of the World
Wide
Web, Web juxtaposes the idea of manual creation and real time, where
digital
forms exist in a realm with no fixed notion of time. Reproductions of iconic
painted images including Da Vinci1s Mona Lisa and La Belle Ferronniere
and
Caravaggio1s The Lute Player are digitally scanned. Using Adobe
Photoshop,
the visible cracks on the surface of the reproduced painting are drawn
onto
a new layer, which is separated from the original, projected digitally, and
then drawn by hand in graphite or pencil onto a variety of surfaces. This
pared down framework provides a view of the ageing aspects of the
image,
which looms large, becoming abstracted from the original, yet faithful to it
at the same time.
For the Web installation at the Butler Gallery, Fay has worked with a
painting from the Ormonde Collection at Kilkenny Castle. He has chosen
a
section of the painting Walter Butler of Kilcash and Garryricken, by Robert
Hunter. The original painting can be viewed on a tour of the castle.
Fay1s recent work includes encoded (2004-2005), a collaboration with
composer Donal Siggins using Morse Code to look at form-generating
processes
within drawing and sound media. The winning entry from a call for
collaborative projects by Context Galleries, Derry and the Contemporary
Music Centre (CMC), Dublin in 2002, enCODEd was a Guardian
Newspaper top
five exhibition. It was shown at the Context Galleries, Derry, the Project
Arts Centre, Dublin and is touring to the West Cork Arts Centre,
Skibbereen,
Cork from June 18 - July 16, 2005.
Brian Fay is a Board Member of the Sculptors Society of Ireland and a
member
of the Artist Panel at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). He has
received awards from both the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaion and
the
Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Fay is currently working on digital
drawings for Art Watching, a collaboration with art writer Niamh Ann Kelly
and book designer Brenda Dermody. This work is for a forthcoming
publication
reflecting upon the collection of the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
and
is supported by the Faculty of Applied Arts at the Dublin Institute of
Technology
Fay has recently exhibited in Drawing the Line at The Orleans House
Gallery,
London, COE 2004 (Claremorris Open Exhibition), Perspective 03,
Ormeau Baths
Gallery, Belfast (2003), Haunted, Civil Arts Inquiry, City Arts Centre,
Dublin (2003), US Live, Guinness Storehouse, Dublin (2003), 6x6 for
Ireland,
411 Gallery and Eastlink Gallery, China (2003).
Artist1s Gallery Talk will take place at noon on Wednesday, 29th June,
2005
ADMISSION FREE
Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland
t + 353 56 776-1106 f +353 56 777-0031
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