Kandalama

Details

Mark O'Kelly (b. 1968)
Kandalama
signed, inscribed and dated 'Mark O'Kelly/Dublin 2005' (on the reverse)
oil on linen, unframed
46¼ x 68 in. (117.4 x 172.7 cm.)

Exhibited

Limerick, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Mark O'Kelly, In Fashion, January - February 2005.

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Lot Essay

The present work was included in the 2005 Limerick City Gallery of Art solo show of O'Kelly's recent works. In a review of the exhibition, N.A. Kelly wrote that, O'Kelly's 'works are not easily read. Uncertainty about what has happened, what may happen and the undisclosed significance of the places, times and situations in O'Kelly's works leave the viewer to consider and reconsider the paintings, and furthermore to reconstitute the interrelationships among them, of which there are many. In Limerick this rewarding possibility was encouraged by the scale and range of the exhibition. A profoundly thoughtful artist, O'Kelly's insatiable research practice ensures that the final products that hang on the wall are deceptively still. Each painting contains a myriad of ideas and celebrates a pleasure in paint' (see N.A. Kelly, CIRCA 112, Summer 2005, pp. 94 - 95).

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