Charles Tyrrell

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Fenton Gallery: Charles Tyrrell

Charles Tyrrell: Charles Tyrrell
April 15th - May 9th 2005

At the time of Charles Tyrrell’s ten year retrospective at the R.H.A, Dublin in 2001. Patrick T. Murphy, Director wrote:
“Charles Tyrrell is probably the best painter of his generation in Ireland. It was a generation forged between a belief in painting and it’s possibilities and the rigour of conceptualist and minimalist strategies of the early seventies. For the past fifteen years he has resided in a remote area of Ireland where the intensity of his exploration into paint’s non rational and rational qualities have produced work anything but remote from the essential artistic questions of our time.”

This exhibition is programmed directly after Sean Scully in the Fenton Gallery’s exciting 2005 schedule. In his art Tyrrell shares with Scully a concentrated “abstract logic” and a different but equally consistent set of structural relationships. Aidan Dunne has written how these paintings have “a resistance to being read” or to being recognisable. Recently the presence of an overlayed motif has been left behind, now the paintings are evermore rigorous in their explorations of geometric relationships. Squares are subtly broken up by the presence of borders, a recurring device in Tyrrell’s paintings since the early 90’s borderland paintings.

Tyrrell’s last exhibition at the Fenton gallery saw him working with square canvases, however this time around, the predominant feature of Tyrrell’s work is his use of tightly constructed diptychs – two squares stacked one above the other, or side by side. Strong relationships of form, and contrasting tones and surface marks are themes throughout this series of mature confident paintings.

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