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Auf der Galerie Up in the Gallery Eamon O’Kane Galerie Schuster/Scheuermann, Berlin 6th - 30th September 2006 Auf der Galerie Up in the Gallery Eamon O’Kane Galerie Schuster/Scheuermann, Berlin 6th - 30th September 2006 Auf der Galerie Installation view, Rome oil on canvas, 100 X 100, 100 X 70 cm 2006 2 Cloth oil on canvas, 200 X 200 cm 2006 Auf der Galerie Franz Kafka Wenn irgendeine hinfällige, lungensüchtige Kunstreiterin in der Manege auf schwankendem Pferd vor einem unermüdlichen Publikum vom peitschenschwingenden erbarmungslosen Chef monatelang ohne Unterbrechung im Kreise rundum getrieben würde, auf dem Pferde schwirrend, Küsse werfend, in der Taille sich wiegend, und wenn dieses Spiel unter dem nichtaussetzenden Brausen des Orchesters und der Ventilatoren in die immerfort weiter sich öffnende graue Zukunft sich fortsetzte, begleitet vom vergehenden und neu anschwellenden Beifallsklatschen der Hände, die eigentlich Dampfhämmer sind - vielleicht eilte dann ein junger Galeriebesucher die lange Treppe durch alle Ränge hinab, stürzte in die Manege, rief das - Halt! durch die Fanfaren des immer sich anpassenden Orchesters. Da es aber nicht so ist; eine schöne Dame, weiß und rot, hereinfliegt, zwischen den Vorhängen, welche die stolzen Livrierten vor ihr öffnen; der 5 Direktor, hingebungsvoll ihre Augen suchend, in Tierhaltung ihr entgegenatmet; vorsorglich sie auf den Apfelschimmel hebt, als wäre sie seine über alles geliebte Enkelin, die sich auf gefährliche Fahrt begibt; sich nicht entschließen kann, das Peitschenzeichen zu geben; schließlich in Selbstüberwindung es knallend gibt; neben dem Pferde mit offenem Munde einherläuft; die Sprünge der Reiterin scharfen Blickes verfolgt; ihre Kunstfertigkeit kaum begreifen kann; mit englischen Ausrufen zu warnen versucht; die reifenhaltenden Reitknechte wütend zu peinlichster Achtsamkeit ermahnt; vor dem großen Salto mortale das Orchester mit aufgehobenen Händen beschwört, es möge schweigen; schließlich die Kleine vom zitternden Pferde hebt, auf beide Backen küßt und keine Huldigung des Publikums für genügend erachtet; während sie selbst, von ihm gestützt, hoch auf den Fußspitzen, vom Staub umweht, mit ausgebreiteten Armen, zurückgelehntem Köpfchen ihr Glück mit dem ganzen Zirkus teilen will - da dies so ist, legt der Galeriebesucher das Gesicht auf die Brüstung und, im Schlußmarsch wie in einem schweren Traum versinkend, weint er, ohne es zu wissen. 6 Kafka’s Tent oil on canvas, 200 X 200 cm 2006 < ROMA oil on canvas, 100 X 70 cm 2006 > Double Portrait I oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm 2006 < Buren Bedsheet oil on canvas, 100 X 70 cm 2006 > Double Portrait II oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm 2006 < Seaside oil on canvas, 100 X 70 cm 2006 > Double Portrait III oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm 2006 < Tent oil on canvas, 100 X 70 cm 2006 > Double Portrait IV oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm 2006 < Neon Night oil on canvas, 100 X 70 cm 2006 > Double Portrait V oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm 2006 < Guggenheim oil on canvas, 100 X 70 cm 2006 > Double Portrait VII oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm 2006 Auf der Galerie Installation view, Rome oil on canvas, 100 X 100, 100 X 70 cm 2006 20 Studio oil on canvas, 200 X 200 cm 2006 Up in the Gallery Franz Kafka If some frail tubercular lady circus rider were to be driven in circles around and around the arena for months and months without interruption in front of a tireless public on a swaying horse by a merciless whip-wielding master of ceremonies, spinning on the horse, throwing kisses and swaying at the waist, and if this performance, amid the incessant roar of the orchestra and the ventilators, were to continue into the ever-expanding, gray future, accompanied by applause, which died down and then swelled up again, from hands which were really steam hammers, perhaps then a young visitor to the gallery might rush down the long stair case through all the levels, burst into the ring, and cry “Stop!” through the fanfares of the constantly adjusting orchestra. But since things are not like that—since a beautiful woman, in white and red, flies in through curtains which proud men in livery open in front of her, since 23 the director, devotedly seeking her eyes, breathes in her direction, behaving like an animal, and, as a precaution, lifts her up on the dapple-gray horse, as if she were his grand daughter, the one he loved more than anything else, as she starts a dangerous journey, but he cannot decide to give the signal with his whip and finally, controlling himself, gives it a crack, runs right beside the horse with his mouth open, follows the rider’s leaps with a sharp gaze, hardly capable of comprehending her skill, tries to warn her by calling out in English, furiously castigating the grooms holding hoops, telling them to pay the most scrupulous attention, and begs the orchestra, with upraised arms, to be quiet before the great jump, finally lifts the small woman down from the trembling horse, kisses her on both cheeks, considers no public tribute adequate, while she herself, leaning on him, high on the tips of her toes, with dust swirling around her, arms outstretched and head thrown back, wants to share her luck with the entire circus—since this is how things are, the visitor to the gallery puts his face on the railing and, sinking into the final march as if into a difficult dream, weeps, without realizing it. Translated by Ian Johnston 24 Tate Tent oil on canvas, 200 X 200 cm 2006 < Bunker oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm 2006 > Girl oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm 2006 < Plant I oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm 2006 > Doria Pamphilj Gesu oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm 2006 < Plant II oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm 2006 > Plant III oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm 2006 Auf der Galerie Installation view, Rome oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm 2006 32 < Pavillion oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm 2006 > Bookshop oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm 2006 < House oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm 2006 > Cultural Institute oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm 2006 < Art House Cinema oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm 2006 > Gallery oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm 2006 < Cinema Studios oil on canvas, 200 X 200 cm 2006 > Hotel oil on canvas, 200 X 200 cm 2006 Eamon O’Kane 1974 born in Belfast 1993-1996 BA Fine Art, NCAD, Dublin 1996-1998 MFA, University of Ulster, Belfast 1998-1999 Research Fellowship (Painting), Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education 1999-2001 MFA (Design Technology) Parsons School of Design, New York, USA Lives and works in Bristol Selected solo exhibitions (since 1998) 2006 Draiocht, Blanchardstown* Galerie Schuster / Scheuermann, Berlin* GFJK, Baden Baden 2005 Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt* 2004 Millenium Arts Centre, Portadown * Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen Cavanacor Gallery, Co. Donegal Galerie Schuster & Scheuermann, Berlin Triskel Arts Centre, Cork * Campus Galerie, Bayreuth * 42 2003 Lead White Gallery, Dublin Galerie Lutz & Thalmann, Zurich Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt Hildesheim Kunstverein, Hildesheim * 2002 Galerie Schuster & Scheuermann, Berlin Bildermacher, Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt * Studio 91, 011 Podium, Tilburg Neuffer am Park, Pirmasens 2001 Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick * Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast Hallward Gallery, Dublin Galleri Lisse Bruun, Copenhagen 2000 Donskoj + Co. Gallery, Kingston, NY Irish Arts Centre, New York City Orchard Gallery, Derry Butler Gallery, Kilkenny * Galleri 21, Malmö 1999 KoRaw Gallery@Bankside, London Overgaden, Copenhagen Cavanacor Gallery, Co. Donegal 1998 Basement Gallery, Dundalk Letterkenny Arts Centre, Letterkenny * Denotes catalogue Selected group exhibitions (since 1998) 2006 Neue Malerei, Burda Museum, Baden Baden Four Lights, Letterkenny Arts Centre, Co. Donegal Overlap 2 + 3, British School Art Rome gallery, Rome Tryingtoland, Macro Museum, Rome Scope Art Fair, New York AIB Prize Exhibition, RHA, Dublin Taylor Prizewinners Exhibition, National Gallery, Dublin Armenian Biennale, Armenia Claremorris Open,Claremorris Spazia Aperti, Romanian Academy, Rome Scope Art Fair, London (solo presentation) 2005 Neues aus den Ateliers, Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt Crazy Golf Part II, Plan 9, Bristol Landscape, Vertigo Gallery, London From Landscape, Mermaid Arts Centre + touring West, RHA, Dublin Trans-Atlantic, RHA, Dublin EV+A 2005 (+2003, 2002, 2001, 1999), LCGA, Limerick 2004 Scope Art Fair, Miami (solo presentation) Birds, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo Full Circle, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin Max10, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance Darklight Film Festival, Dublin RE-JOYCE, Temple Bar, Dublin Skyscapes, Galerie Lutz & Thalmann, Zurich The Bigger Picture, Cornerhouse R.H.A. Annual (invited) (+ 2002, 2001), RHA, Dublin Travelogue, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny 6X6 for Ireland, Shanghai (+ 2003) Scope Art Fair, New York City Art Forum, Berlin (+ 2003) Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt (+ 2002, 2003) ARTfutures 2004, London Iontas Award Winners, Sligo Art Gallery 2003 Dreams, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo Art Cologne, Cologne From Bahia.., tactileBOSCH, Cardiff Kunsthaus, Gelnhausen The National Gallery, Goethe Institute, Dublin Shanghai Film Festival Referenz, Galerie Lutz & Thalmann, Zurich 54 Degrees North, Hull 2002 Curio, Brick Lane, London Straylight: Darklight Film Festival, Dublin MOSTYN OPEN 12, Oriel Mostyn Gallery Tabula Rasa, video projections in Croydon SCA-ART, Mannheim Kunstverein Invited Artists, Hallward Gallery, Dublin On Board, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo VII, Lead White Gallery, Dublin Cavanacor Gallery, Co. Donegal Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Dublin AKA III, Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm 43 2001 Crawford Open, Crawford Gallery, Cork Articulate, Station, Bristol Victor Treacy Award, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Vacationland, Art House, Dublin Rondout Sculpture Biennal, Kingston, NY Focus on Drawing, LGCA, Limerick 2000 PERSPECTIVE 2000 (+ 1998), Ormeau Baths, Belfast Iontas 2000 (+ 1997, 1994), RHA, Dublin Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore Refresh: Dystopia + Identity, Tribes Gallery, NY Extracts, Engine Room Gallery, Belfast Irish Art Exhibition, Vine Gallery, Louisville Irish Arts 2000, Studio 1019, Washington DC Florence Biennale, Ashford Gallery, Dublin 1999 Florence Biennale, Florence Context Gallery, Derry Documentation etc, Pitville Gallery, Cheltenham ArtLink @ Sotheby’s, Tel Aviv, Israel + Chicago Selected Awards / commissions / residencies 2007 2006 2005 2004 2002 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1998 M2 Fax Box Project, Banana Factory, PA Forest, The Bull and Last, London Hardline, Catalyst Arts, Belfast Connect, Drogheda and Newry train stations 44 1994 Cill Rialaig Project, Kerry Pollock Krasner Award Shortlisted for AIB Prize Rome Scholarship, Bristish School at Rome EV+A Open Award, Limerick Vermont Studio Centre, USA Artflight Award, Arts Council (+ 2000, 1995) Artist’s Work Programme, IMMA, Dublin Imagine Belfast Panorama commission, Belfast Residency, Tilburg Art Academy Media-Play-Off, Bertelsmann Pavillion General Art Award, Arts Council of N. Ireland KPMG Award, Oireachtas 2000, Dublin Text/Context, Hannover Expo 2000, Hannover Fulbright Award (visual arts) Tony O'Malley Travel Award for Painters, Butler Gallery & Waterford Crystal Emerging Artist Award, Donegal Co. Council Panorama Project, Athens Joint Best Drawing Prize, IONTAS, Dublin Artsite, site specific billboard, Belfast Taylor Art Award, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin Thomas Damman Jr. Award for Travel Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Scholarship, RHA Dublin Selected bibliography (since 2000) 2005 Dan Cameron, ‘Perambulations’ EV+A catalogue Caoimhin Macgiolla Leith, ‘Trans Atlantic’ catalogue Dr. Yvonne Scott, ‘The West as Metaphor’ catalogue Chris Schuler, ‘A natural world made modern’ The Independent, 8 June Aidan Dunne ‘Opening spaces in the city‘ Irish Times, 22 March 2004 Aidan Dunne ‘A self-contained show turned inside out‘ Irish Times, 29 Dec Dr. Slavka Sverakova ‘The Studio’ CIRCA, Winter Peter Michael Hornung ‘Kitschmaleri’ Politiken, 19 Nov ‘Twin Peaks Stemning’ Berlingske Tidende, 25 Nov Marc Spiegler ‘German Market Swings Back Into Action’ www.theartnewspaper.com Walter Robinson ‘Blue Skies Over Berlin’ www.artnet.com, 23 Sept Thomas Eller ‘FAIR Frankfurt’ www.artnet.com, 24 May 2003 Brenda McNally ‘Building a Successful Career’ The Sunday Tribune, 7 Sept Ros Drinkwater ‘Gambling on Art’s Young Talent’ Sunday Business Post, 16 March Aidan Dunne ‘Opening Irish Gallery Doors’ Irish Times, 15 March Philipp Meier ‘Referenzen und Reverenzen’ Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 3 Feb 2002 Mark Ewart ‘Crawford Open 2’ SSI Magazine, Jul/Aug Anja Musiat ‘Making a Living From Art’ Studies Quarterly Review, Summer Hansheiner Ritzer ‘Ich bin ein Bildermacher’ Pirmasenser Zeitung ‘Avantgarde aus Irland’ Die Rheinpfalz Apinan Poshyananda ‘Concerning Heroes + Martyrs’ EV+A catalogue Aidan Dunne ‘A rewardingly obsessive attention to artistic detail’ Irish Times, 2 Jan 2001 Aidan Dunne ‘Maintaining classical calm in life’s flux‘ Irish Times, 19 Sept Mary Cassai “Kingston Biennial changes ‘beat’” Daily Freeman, 20 July Declan Kiberd ‘Millenium Box Set’ Hot Bed Press, July Aidan Dunne ‘Cautionary Tale of a Gallery Guide‘ Irish Times, 9 May Eric Beazley ‘AKA (After Kafka’s Amerika) by Eamon O’Kane’ www.entertainmentireland.ie, 1 May 2000 Mary Cassai ‘Art Beat’ Daily Freeman, 15 Sept ‘Nord Kunst’ television interview, Malmö, March Brid Nelson ‘Anything Irish’ television interview, Woodstock, March 45 Publications 2006 Museum Collection, texts by Roy Voss and Eamon O’Kane, Published by Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt + Berlin ISBN 3-934545-08-4 2005 Mobile Museum, texts by Megan Arney, Niamh Ann Kelly and Gemma Tipton, published by Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown 2004 Overlook, texts by Claire Doherty and Padraig Timoney, published by Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt + Berlin ISBN 3-934545-07-6 Studio in the Woods, text by Mike Fitzpatrick, published by Campus Galerie, Bayreuth 2003 Fictionlands, text by Klaus Dierssen, published by Kunstverein Hildesheim, Hildesheim, ISBN 3-935729-09-x 2002 Die Bildermacher, texts by Mark Stafford and Anja Musiat, published by Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt + Berlin 2001 AKA, published by Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick 46 2000 An American Cross-Section, text by Fiona Kearney published by Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Collections Sammlung Frieder Burda, Baden Baden Limerick City Gallery of Art (National Drawing Collection) Dundalk Institute of Technology (commission) Belfast City Council (commission) Hillsborough Castle (commission) Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, Aras An Uachtarain (commission) Dublin 98FM, Microsoft Bank of Ireland Collection Irish Contemporary Arts Society Office of Public Works PMPA and Guardian Insurance Donegal County Library Letterkenny Institute of Technology Country Bank, New York Unibank NKT HK Den Danske Bank Works in private collections in Ireland, England, Denmark, United States, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Germany. Published by Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt in connection with the exhibition ‘Up in the Gallery’ at Galerie Schuster and Scheuermann, Berlin September 2006 © 2006 Eamon O’Kane & Galerie Schuster ISBN Eamon O’Kane: www.galerie-schuster.de Galerie Schuster Fahrgasse 8 60311 Frankfurt Germany Galerie Schuster/Scheuermann Gartenstraße 7 10115 Berlin Germany Thanks to: Anja Musiat O’Kane family Helmut and Claudia Schuster Ulrike Pohl Klaus Scheuermann Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt + Berlin Cavanacor Gallery, Co. Donegal Design: Eamon O’Kane + Anja Musiat Photography: Eamon O’Kane Franz Kafka translation courtesy of Ian Johnston 48 www.eokprojects.com www.eamonokane.com List of images Front cover: Buren Bedsheet,oil on canvas, 100 X 70 cm, 2006 Back cover: Double Portrait VI, oil on canvas, 100 X 100 cm, 2006 Previous page: Doria Pamphilj Gesu + Cloth, Installation view, Rome, oil on canvas, 100 X 100 +200 X 200 cm, 2006
