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'Corner Stroke', Oil on canvas, 230 x 160 cm, 2010
'New Bottle Old Wine'
Filipp Rosbach Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
David O’Kane, Alexander König, Carol Anne McGowan, Sebastian Debold
1st May – 12th June 2010
'Boar's Teeth', Oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm, 2010
'Still'
David O'Kane - Solo Exhibition
Cavanacor Gallery, Donegal, Ireland
20th Feb - 31st May
'Still', a solo exhibition film, animation, painting and lithography by Irish artist David O’Kane from Saturday 20 February to 31 March 2010. The exhibition will include work produced by O'Kane during residencies at the British School at Rome, the Royal Hibernian Academy, the Spinnerei in Leipzig and at Cavanacor studios in Donegal. O'Kane will also be screening his documentary style film, 'The Academic of no Academy', which investigates the life and work Neapolitan philosopher Giordano Bruno
The exhibition will be accompanied by the launch of a 132 page full colour hardback book on O'Kane's work. With an essay by Martin Germann (curator at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hanover, Germany) and an interview with O'Kane conducted by Francis McKee (director of the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland)
The exhibition will be opened by Detlef Möller (Patron of the Arts, Leipzig, Germany) with a private preview on 20 February 2010 from 7 to 10pm.
Please R.S.V.P. to: art@cavanacorgallery.ie or 00353 (0) 749141143, and for further information please visit:
Installation View
'Still' David O'Kane - Solo Exhibition
Installation View
'Still' David O'Kane - Solo Exhibition
Installation shot at the British School at Rome "Stills (Carol Anne)"
12 paintings from a series of 24, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm (x 12)
Production shot from the film: "Palabras", Video, 2008
Claremorris Open Exhibition Awards have been presented by the exhibition's curator Tom Morton (curator of Hayward Art Gallery, in London's Southbank Centre and co-curator of the next British Art Show and contributing editor of Frieze art magazine).
The emerging artist award is Lisa Fingleton, and winners are David O'Kane and Laurence Kavanagh. The official opening was performed by Mannix Flynn (writer, playwright, actor and politician) on Saturday the 5th of September. The exhibition runs until Saturday, September 26th.
