PETER MURRAY

"IRISH AND OTHER LANDSCAPES"

2004

Continuing the Crawford Gallery's theme of documenting the landscape, internationally renowned artist Gottfried Helnwein will exhibit a number of large-scale (some are of seven metres in lentth), photo-realist canvases depicting landscape. Helnwein divides his time between Co Tipperary and Los Angeles and his paintings draw upon the sublimity and drama of these contrasting environments as well as revealing the parallels of Irish and American terrains,

Perhaps more recognised as a painters of highly emotive portraits, this exhibition will reveal the influence of lanscape throughtout his career from the early Vienna cityscapes to the present series of Irish lanscapes and recognises the impact in which the German romantic artist Capar David Friedrich (1774-1840) has had on Helnwein's work. In addition four new smaller scales canvases will also be on view.

A full colour cataglogue with an essay by Mic Moroney will accompany the exhibition.

Gottfried Helnwein, (born in Vienna in 1948), is a fromidable artist and his work has often been seen as controversial because it functions as moral probes. he contiually reveals affecting issues within his work practice.

He has exhibition exensively at key venues throughout the world and is currently preparing for a one-man show at the Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco (Jul 31 2004 - January 16 2005) and will have a retrospective exhibtion at the China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing in 2005.

From "Peter Murray, Helnwein, Irish and other Lanscapes"
for the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork Ireland
One man Show at the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
July 1st - August 1st, 2004