Paki Smith: The Red Thread - Hardcover

Smith, Paki

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1905397186 ISBN 13: 9781905397181

Publisher: Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2009

Synopsis

The Irish artist Paki Smith became known in the late 1980s for his small and intense visionary pictures. Although idiosyncratic, they were part of a general renewal of interest in expressive figurative painting, both in this country and abroad. Since then he has continued to exhibit, often in a looser style and with more emphasis on landscape. He has also made films, of which the most significant, 'God's Kitchen', renewed his interest in spirituality and was notable for its humour and off-beat imagination. These are qualities that are characteristic of much of his work.While a new film, 'Colossus or Nebuchadnezzar' s Dream', is at the heart of this exhibition, it is accompanied by a wide selection of paintings, drawings, and illustrated books. This will provide a broad overview of the artist's practice, which remains unusual in today's art world. His imagery, perhaps bleaker than in the past, is not without its funny moments and hints of self-deprecation, but it remains committed to an inner world that is as real to the artist as the outer A catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Douglas Hyde Gallery
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905397186
• ISBN 13: 9781905397181
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32