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Still
David O'Kane - Solo Exhibition
20th Feb - 31st March
'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:
David O'Kane's DAAD Scholarship has been extended to study under Professor Neo Rauch at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Art, Germany. 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.
He was selected for the CAP Foundation Award - studio and stipend in Dublin for a year in 2006-07. In the 2006 Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition he won the O'Sullivan Graphics Award and was runner up in the Hennessy Craig Scholarship. He has previously been recipient of the Henry Higgins Travel Scholarship and the R.C. Lewis Crosby Painting award from the R.D.S.
'Stills (Carol Anne)', 2010, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm each
12 paintings from a series of 24
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Installation View
'Still' David O'Kane - Solo Exhibition
'Stills (Nadja)', 2010, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm each
1 paintings from a series of 24
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Endgame
Diptych, oil on canvas, 100 x 95 cm each, 2010
Gaseous Exchange
Diptych, oil on canvas, 70 x 50 cm each, 2009
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Boar's Teeth
Oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm, 2010
Production shot from the film: "The Academic of no Academy", HD Video, 2010
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Production shot from the film: "The Academic of no Academy", HD Video, 2010
Production shot from the film: "The Academic of no Academy", HD Video, 2010
Installation View
'Still' David O'Kane - Solo Exhibition
