Placescapes
Placescapes


12 Apr - 4 May 2012

Solo Show

Artist  Seán Mulcahy (1926-2018)

Officially opened 12th April 2012

Guest Speaker James O'Nolan, Director Stoney Road Press

'Placescapes' was the second exhibition at the newly opened Olivier Cornet Gallery. It showed Seán Mulcahy's wonderfully intriguing pieces of landscapes inside worlds of colour. An imprinting technique was used by the artist.

"In concept, the works are based on limited keyboard chords - within three octaves of twelve half-tone colour values, akin to the modern twelve half-tone chromatic music scale — harmony rather than melody. The process of Imprinting is somewhat aleatory, chancy — less so with practice. It produces two copies, with variations, and results in a texture and a fractal pattern particular to the medium, be it acrylic, tempera or oil. The colours and outline forms are composed and controlled. The forms within are wayward and result in the range of variations." (Seán Mulcahy, 2012).

The show was a sell out exhibition.  One of the paintings, Placescape VII, was acquired by the OPW for the collection of the Irish State. Read all about it here.

Press Coverage

Update, October 2019:
Seán left this world on 17th February 2018. He was predeceased by his wonderful wife Dr Rosemarie Mulcahy (née Scully, 1942-2012). Rosemarie was an internationally renowned Spanish art historian and a popular professor at UCD.  Read all about the recent Seán & Rosemarie Mulcahy Collection Bequest to the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny. We are delighted that 'Placescape IX' is included in this bequest. We missed them both.

Sean Mulcahy, 'Placescape IX', acrylic on paper, 36x42cm, collection of the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
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