Andrew Kreps Gallery is pleased to present Golarithm, Pádraig
Timoney's debut solo exhibition in New York. Born in Derry, Northern Ireland
and based in Naples, Timoney's work encompasses a variety of platforms through
his use of differing media and materials. In Golarithm, Timoney will
exhibit paintings and photography.
Since the late 1980's Timoney has challenged his audiences by presenting a
diverse group of works without an easily apparent bond. Refusing to stagnate
in a particular genre, Timoney's practice sometimes gives the illusion that
one could be viewing a group show rather than a solo exhibition. Timoney has
consistently drawn his ideas from his personal experiences, which result in
subject matter with intermingling themes ranging from the charged political
atmosphere of his youth to the idyllic surroundings of his Mediterranean home.
The theme of pluralism and its narratives come to life through Timoney's work
once again in Golarithm, the title of which is an anagram of both algorithm
and logarithm; Algorithm being process and logarithm being relationality between
terms, Golarithm "explains" the operation of the movements in and
between the works in the show. The diptych "Stari Most"
created using a gravitational transfer process, depicts the Old Bridge at
Mostar, a 16th century Bosnian bridge famous for its destruction by Croat
Nationalists owing to its iconic status during the Bosnian War. In the painting
"Capo Miseno", Timoney calls upon his new found home in
Italy with an abstracted image of a promontory located in the northwest bay
of Naples.
This continuity of disparate style and process proceeds through the exhibition
with other works such as the aptly titled work "Lens Cap",
a flatly painted landscape-colored disk, to a more spontaneous, almost watercolor-like
painting of a hydrangea bush. It is with these stark shifts that offer the
audience the opportunity to begin to unravel the artist's complex narrative.
The exhibition will be on view from October 25th through November 24th. A
reception will be held for the artist at the gallery on October 25th from
6 - 8 PM at 525 West 22nd Street, New York. For more information contact Erin
Somerville at 212.741.8849, or erin@andrewkreps.com.
