Author: O'Regan, John
Number Of Pages: 84
Release Date: 01-02-2006
Details: This is number 24 in Gandon Edition's very successful PROFILES series on Irish artists, this time featuring the award-winning painter, Paul Doran. " The marks and gestures which began to accumulate on the surfaces of Doran’s earlier paintings, and which not just embellished but complicated those surfaces, are carried through in the latest works also. This time, however, it is of a much more controlled and sophisticated order. Organic blotches, seeping paint from underneath their edges, lie ominously on the surface, in relief, like a fungus, threatening to take over the entire painting. There are other, more geometric elements which appear on the surfaces also, as though cut and pasted from other works. They are spliced and literally grafted, in areas crossing over and under each other. The intricacy of these elements, in sometimes awkward juxtaposition, resists the matter-of-fact reading afforded to artwork which rests on the evidence of the medium alone. These works, informed as they are by both the historical and the contemporary, attest to the complexity of the painted surface and to our inability to provide it with any totalising response." (Mark Swords) While some people respond to awards [Doran is an AIB Art Prize award-winner] by repeating the winning formula or variations on its theme for years, there is little danger of that happeing with Doran and there have been radical changes in his work over the last year ... Gandon’s Paul Doran reproduces over fifty paintings in full colour plates which give you a good idea of his work and its development from 1999 to 2006 (and, incidently, good colour reproductions of the subtleties of paintings is very tricky to accomplish, but Gandon always takes great care to do so). — Marianne Hartigan, Books Ireland, 2006
EAN: 9780948037306
Languages: english
Binding: Paperback
Item Condition: UsedVeryGood