Closing Season 2 on this very special episode, Caren Sullivan talks to renowned international artist, painter, sculptor, once member of post-punk legendary band Virgin Prunes, Guggi, in 2020.
Born and working in Dublin, Guggi is an artist working with drawing, painting and sculpture, Guggi digs deep into a personal yet universal subject matter: the quotidian beauty of household objects.
He committedly revisits his signature motifs of bowls, jugs and vessels, using repetition and abstraction to conjure an almost meditative state. In his paintings and works on paper, their forms appear tentative: broken outlines against resonant washes of abstract colour. And yet when Guggi continues his investigations as sculpture, these humble instruments are bestowed with a renewed majesty and power: polished bronze or fibreglass forms that seem to harness and heighten energy, with the simplicity and timelessness of prehistoric artefacts. Connecting both approaches is a sense of openness and fluidity, an attentiveness to prosaic details.
CURRENT & FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2024 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (Solo, 19 January - 24 February)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Memory to Form, Château La Coste, Aix-en-Provence, France; curated by Dr. Jon Wood
2022 A Retrospective, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France
2021 Time, Galerie 75 Fauborg, Paris,France
2019 Broken, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Broken, Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan My Cup Overflows, Arcane Space, Venice,CA
2018 Château La Coste, Le Puy-Saint-Réparade, Provence
2017 Black and White in Colour, Yoshii Gallery, Paris
2016 This is not a hotel, Yoshii Gallery, New York
2013 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
2012 Accademia Fine Art, Monaco
Be Palermitano Gallery, Buenos Aires 2011 Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany
2010 Yoshii Gallery, New York
2009 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
2005 Solomon Galley, Dublin
2004 Osborne Samuel Gallery, London 2002 Solomon Gallery, Dublin
Permanent Installation, Beacon Court,Dublin
2001 Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York Solomon Gallery, Dublin
1997 Permanent Installation, Clarence Hotel, Dublin
1993 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
1991 Two-person exhibition with Sibylle Ungers, Ric Urmel Gallery, Gent, Belgium 1990 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Two-person exhibition with Sibylle Ungers, Gallerie Schurr, Stuttgart
1989 Two-person exhibition with Sibylle Ungers, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France Akureyi Municipal Art Gallery, Iceland The Clarence Hotel, Dublin Kelly's Resort Hotel, Wexford
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