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Leipzig International Art Programme (LIA)
at Cavanacor Gallery
2nd August - September 26th 2008
LIA is a not-for-profit art institution founded in 2007 and run by Anna-Louise Kratzsch. The artist in residency programme is designed to foster international artists by providing studio space and exhibition opportunities at the Spinnerei Leipzig, which has one of the largest artist populations in Germany.
International exhibitions, open studios and panel discussions regularly take place. LIA hosts artists from the following countries: Australia, Japan, Ireland, China, Switzerland, Sweden, the USA, Ukraine and Puerto Rico.
LIA is the official artist in residency programme for the city of Leipzig our patron being Burkhard Jung, mayor of Leipzig. The programme’s principal sponsor is BMW Plant Leipzig and HeiterBlick – For quality of ride.
Exhibiting ArtistsShonah Trescott, David O'Kane, Nadja Bournonville, Aya Onodera, Luzian Obrist
"Landscape", oil on postcard, 10 x 15 cm, 2008
Shonah Trescott (1982, Australia) exploring the genre of landscape and the human figure between abstraction and figurativeness in the medium of painting while undertaking a residency in LIA. She exhibits new work at the international Melbourne Art Fair
"Untitled", oil on canvas, 160 x 160 cm, 2008
David O’Kane (1985, Ireland) is working with painting and video; processing philosophical ideas. He is currently developing his practice under Professor Neo Rauch at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig. He recently received a e v+ a open award from the curator, Hou Hanru, in Limerick, Ireland. He also won the Artistic Projects Tender for the Serralves Festival in Porto, Portugal.
"You told me you dreamt of dead fishes", C-Print, (Edition of 5), 2008
(Courtesy the Artist and Pierogi)
Nadja Bournonville (1983, Sweden) explores the city’s desolate scenery, empty flats and houses of a once flourishing industrial era in her photographs she takes in Leipzig. Her work has recently been acquired for the permanent collection of Hasselblad Center in Sweden.
Mythos 3, oil on canvas, 2008
Aya Onoderas’ (1984, Japan) recent body of work is titled ‘Mythos’. Her paintings are comprised by almost floral, abstract forms and fleshy colours, oscillating between the erotic and realm of the surreal. Encapsulated they cue up in cycles following a rhythm or pattern, a colour or line. Aya Onodera will be part of the Festival ‘OHAYÔ, Japan!’ in September in Leipzig.
"In Between", oil and acrylic on canvas, 88 x 65 cm, 2008
Luzian Obrist (1979, Switzerland) consistently reduces his images to very basic features of a simplified form or a monochrome color. His minimizing work method adds a surreal finish to his work. In 2008 he received the iaab-residency fellowship by the Christoph Merian Foundation and spent six months at LIA.
The exhibition runs from 2nd August until 30th September 2008.
Cavanacor Gallery, Ballindrait, Lifford, Co. Donegal, Ireland.
Telephone / Fax 00353 74 9141143
email: art@cavanacorgallery.ie website: www.cavanacorgallery.ie
Opening Times: Tuesday – Saturday 12-6, Sunday 2-6 or by appointment.
Directions:
From Lifford Roundabout take the N14 (Letterkenny road) to Rossgier (3km) 200m past Rossgier on the main road turn left (signed Cavanacor Gallery). The Gallery is 200m on the right.
