LIMERICK City Gallery of Art is hosting a new exhibition.
Mountains, Fall on Us by Austin McQuinn will run from Friday, April 26 to Sunday, June 9.
Mountains, Fall on Us invokes the poetic object as a means of salvation, alongside micro gestures of iconoclasm.
Paintings on discarded military engravings, a tower of Aran sweaters, medals, clay tongues, sequins, bog oak and upholstery fabric are reclaimed and refashioned with a new baroque sensibility.
Queered with an optimism and infused with what the artist has called 'a kind of mad hope', McQuinn takes possession of these found images and objects, painting over them with ink in an extravagant and decadent defacement.
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