Stephen Brandes at Rubicon Gallery

Friday, 02 May 2008 21:00

Dublin, Ireland - Stephen Brandes continues his development of a perpetually reinvented fictional travelogue. Encompassing a lexicon of styles and materials, it is presented as pictorial fragments of ‘tales’ told by a bewildered traveller whom we suspect has only left his armchair to put on the kettle. Exhibition Dates: 9 May 08 - 7 June 08. Opening Reception Thursday 8th May, 6.00 – 8.00 pm at Rubicon Gallery, 10 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2

These elaborate visual fictions interweave Brandes’ own personal history with irreverent invention. From small scruffy paintings to vast, highly detailed drawings on unexpected surfaces, he references various pictorial languages, from European fairytales to inter-war poster design, and American comics to medieval cartography.

These elaborate visual fictions interweave Brandes’ own personal history with irreverent invention. In creating his small scruffy paintings or vast, highly detailed drawings on unexpected surfaces, he references various pictorial languages, from European fairytales to inter-war poster design, and American comics to medieval cartography.

Stephen Brandes (B. 1966 United Kingdom) lives and works in Cork, Ireland. He has had major solo projects at Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, West Cork Art Centre and RHA Gallagher Gallery Ireland (monograph available). He represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2005 and last year showed in exhibitions at Galerie Conrads, Germany; Kunsthallen Brandts, Denmark and Stavanger Kulturhus in Norway.

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