The dene ''vignette"
Artist
Niamh O'Malley
(b. 1975)
Date2004
MediumOil on canvas and DVD projection
Dimensions140 x 245 cm
ClassificationsMixed Media
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery.
Purchased, 2005.
© Niamh O'Malley.
Object number1987
DescriptionNiamh O'Malley explores the disparity between representational devices such as painting and video and the understanding they propose. In the dene 'vignette' the image is constructed through the precise alignment of a projected image and its painted counterpart. The fixed vantage point of a quiet corner in New York's Central Park is represented, in which the stillness of the generic scene of grass, trees and lamppost is interrupted by passing pedestrians, park life and distant traffic. The work references the notion of the landscape as a framing device, inherent in the history of Central Park itself. A momentary lapse in the projected image reveals the empty painted canvas and with it the artifice. The incorporation of the projected image and painting acknowledges not only the notion of the representation of representation but queries real life perception. O'Malley has stated about the work "it can be read as a slowly moving painting producing a visual tension between the still, painted landscape and the real-time filmic space."O'Malley completed a doctorate at University Ulster, Belfast, in 2003 and the P.S.1 Centre for Contemporary Art residency in New York in 2004, where this work was produced. (GJ)
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