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Opening Reception: Friday 20th March at 6-8pm
Opening Hours: Friday March 20th 1pm -8pm | Saturday March 21st & Sunday 22nd : 11am – 6pm
Venue: The MART Gallery, 190a Rathmines Road Lower, Dublin 6
Reflection is a solo exhibition from Billy Dante at MART Gallery, Dublin. This exhibition explores inner reflection and wider themes of connectivity with the immediate space around us but also to global situations. The macro and the micro are depicted as a means of examining the thread that ties us all together and the cyclical nature of events great and small. Looking at the self, surrounding space and the collective – the paintings challenge and equally lean into the natural flow.
In the act of painting one is tasked with (like in life) navigating light and dark. Reflecting the world around us and how it is experienced – a painting is a reflection of an action placed on a canvas but not passing through it, it sends it back to show a version of who we are. We are but reflections of experience and how will the experience of today reflect?
Everything I look upon
I make
A mirror of
Wherein to see my soul in all its seasons.
Mirrors, P. Kavanagh
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About the artist
Billy Dante is an Irish contemporary artist and a studio member of MART. He works primarily in painting and creates abstract observational images that reexamine how our view of the world around us. Billy has exhibited both internationally and nationally, with notable recent solo exhibitions at The Lane Way Gallery Cork, St. Peter’s Cork and St. John’s Listowel. Billy regularly participates in group exhibitions, most notably representing Ireland at the New Now exhibition for emerging artists in Amsterdam, 2015.
This Exhibition is operated by Hatch Space DAC (formerly MART Gallery & Studios DAC).
