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By Eamon O'Kane
An international touring exhibition of new commissioned work
Meditations On An Ideal Home
Galerie Schuster, Berlin, Germany
September 5 – October 25, 2008
Installation view, Berlin
Eames Le Corbusier remix, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 310cm, 2008
Meditations On An Ideal Home
The exhibition at Galerie Schuster will consist of large-scale paintings and drawings where O’Kane considers his ideas of a perfect home. The paintings and drawings will include fictional buildings invented by the artist as well as merging existing buildings from many styles and periods from the classical to the modern. In the paintings the artist will imagine an architectural utopia where life and the production of art coexist in perfect harmony. In the back space of Galerie Schuster the artist will display an installation of new drawings and photos, which combine different styles of architecture, interior design and furniture design. For example a Barcelona stool by Mies Van De Rohe might be merged with an Arne Jacobsen egg chair to create a new hybrid object, which has lost it's functional role and taken on a new surreal sculptural quality.
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Installation view, Berlin
Installation view, Berlin
Wright plan remix I, pen on graph paper, 65 x 50cm 2008
Wright plan remix II (Detail), pen on graph paper, 65 x 50cm 2008
Window remix (after Frank Lloyd Wright), Digital Print, A0 size, Edition of 25, 2008
Installation view, Berlin
Mies Van De Rohe remix (painted whilst listening to Mahler's 5th Symphony), oil on canvas, 5ft x 7ft, 2008
Alvar Aalto remix (painted whilst listening to Substance by Joy Division), oil on canvas, 5ft x 7ft, 2008
Alvar Aalto remix (painted whilst listening to Closer by Joy Division), oil on canvas, 5ft x 7ft, 2008
Alvar Aalto remix (painted whilst listening to Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division), oil on canvas, 5ft x 9ft, 2008
House morning west view, oil on canvas, 200 x 300cm, 2008
Installation view, Berlin
House morning northwest view, oil on canvas, 5ft x 7ft, 2008
house west view afternoon, oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm (39.4 x 39.4 inches), 2008
pool north view night, oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm (39.4 x 39.4 inches), 2008
Installation view, Berlin
house north view evening, oil on canvas, 120 x 120cm (47.2 x 47.2 inches), 2008
ideal studio complex I (after Bates Maher), oil on canvas, 120 x 120cm (47.2 x 47.2 inches), 2008
ideal studio complex II (after Bates Maher), oil on canvas, 120 x 120cm (47.2 x 47.2 inches), 2008
pool east view midday, oil on canvas, 120 x 150cm (47.2 x 59.1 inches), 2008
Installation view, Berlin
house south view midday (after Aalto), oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm (39.4 x 39.4 inches), 2008
house east view early evening (after Eames), oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm (39.4 x 39.4 inches), 2008
pool south view mid afternoon, oil on canvas, 120 x 150cm (47.2 x 59.1 inches), 2008
storage building west view morning, oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm (39.4 x 39.4 inches), 2008
museum west view midday, oil on canvas, 120 x 150cm (47.2 x 59.1 inches), 2008
Installation view, Berlin
© Eamon O'Kane 2008
