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3rd August 2004
IRISH TIMES
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.....the work is extremely ambitious, both in terms of scale and rendering - some paintings are seven metres long and all are so realistic that they are nearly indistinguishable from photographs.
Consequently they cannot fail but to strike a chord, as you marvel at the skill involved in creating such vivid and realistic landscape views. So much so that Failte Ireland is surely gaining free advertising, as many will be inspired to venture out and experience these places first hand.
Helnwein re-creates these vistas using a composite of photographic sources which cram multiple focal points into in single view. The surfaces are absolutely flawlexss with practically no evidence of the artist's brushwork. Studying the surface is absorbing, as the viewer is immersed in the detail as much as seductive wider views of the vast, undulating topography.
Irish
Times,
Mark Ewart,
3rd August 2004
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