Michael Quane RHA
STRANGE BEASTS
17th September -17th October 2020
The Lavit Gallery is excited to present, solo exhibition from Michael Quane, Strange Beasts.
“With every move to a new place change occurs. It’s a different landscape with a different air. Different air that even moves differently. The sound appears to travel differently through it and it is filled with different sounds. The light is weighted through it to a different measure. The birds that sing in it, had their ancestors settle here ten thousand generations ago and continue their song here, clear and only distinctive to here. Even the pigeon morse coo is different, if you listen for it. Different moods dwell in it and ultimately the results from endeavour changes. It is my intention to allow for this change to solidify into my endeavours over these months coinciding as they do with the strangest phenomenon ever of being in an officially defined state of enforced isolation and distance from everyone else. That means everyone else in the world.”
For this exhibition, Strange Beasts, Michael Quane has chosen to surrender to this new place and time and to the possibilities that are presented by making new work here…
… and see what it is, that happens next.
The exhibition will show directly-carved figurative sculpture, in Irish Limestone and Italian Marble.
Direct carving is the process of carving, with chisel, the material directly, without reference to a model or a maquette. It allows for an unbridled creative input throughout the complete process. Step one is the loose flabby parameters of boulder and idea with all its infinite possibilities and the final step is, all that remains; the result of a myriad of choices and decisions: the chosen finite. It is a process, of the will and the meanings that it attaches, guided by the subtlest of gravitational tugs that the complexity of environment can muster.
EVENTS:
Meet the Artist
Michael Quane will join us in the gallery for you to meet and discuss his current exhibition ‘Strange Beasts’
Thursdays 4.30pm – 6.00pm
24th September, 1st October, 8th October and 15th October
Fridays 11.30am – 1.30pm
25th September, 2nd Otober, 9th October and 16th October.
While booking is not necessary, please let us know which day you are interested in attending so we can manage attendance in line with restrictions and guidelines.
For further information contact info@lavitgallery.com
Previous events:
Culture Night
Friday 18th September
6-7pm
Meet the Artist, join us in the Gallery and meet artist Michael Quane and visit his new solo exhibition ‘Strange Beasts’
No booking required, however capacity may be restricted on the night.
Artist Talk
Saturday 19th September
1:00pm
Free event booking required. Join us in conversation with Michael Quane, as we discuss his current solo exhibition ‘Strange Beasts’.