Tomás Castaño

Landscape and Memory International Exhibition

Johnston Central Library Gallery Space- Cavan Town

Landscape & Memory Johnston Central Library Gallery Space will host an exhibition titled ‘Landscape and Memory’ curated by visual artist Marilyn Gaffney. The exhibition comprises of 20 international artists work.
One of our deepest needs is for a sense of identity, belonging and human attachment to landscape and how we find identity in landscape and place. Landscape therefore is not simply what we see, but a way of seeing. We see it with our eye but interpret it with our mind and ascribe values to landscape for intangible spiritual reasons. Landscape can therefore be seen as a cultural construct in which our sense of place and memories inhere.
This group of artists gathered to talk in one shared language -as well as many tongues, on the matter of memory and landscape. Since the landscape changed in times for them, and as much as their eyes allowed, becoming their own. Many of them have come from other countries and cultures, adding to the personal voyage, the re- interpretation of the land by different experiences and tongues.
The landscape then changes, subtly transformed by memory, acquiring multiple forms: abstract digitized photos to fine painting; children playing in bucolic gardens that the artist eye turns sinister, portraits disintegrate to pixels, the human body as a textual form and repository for memories, human impact on the land, stating what matters is the personal voyage, the unique experience under the set point Memory and Landscape.
This exhibition is taking a step into the computer screen to bring the combined international artists together, into a ‘real’ space and ‘real’ artwork that we get a true sense of.
Exhibiting artists include: Malgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka (Poland), Nikolaos Lamplinos (Greece), Carly Zufelt (USA), Judith Mazzucco, (USA), Elena Feijoo (USA), Marilyn Gaffney (Ireland), Karen Esteves (USA), Madeline Walker (USA), Tomás Castaño (Spain), Sasha Romashko (Ukraine), Stuart J. Gibson (USA), Elaine Catherine Miller (USA),Andy Golan (Great Britain), Xiaohong Zhang (USA), Reyhaneh Afzalian (Iran), Miranda Mirandita (Argentina), Yami (France), Klaus Pinter (Austria), Vera L.P. Cauwenberghs (Belgium), Rachel Lin Weaver (USA), Courtney A. Henderson (USA).
Official Opening by Cathaoirleach Shane P. O’Reilly Opening 23 April at 7pm. The exhibition runs until 22 May and takes place during the Bealtaine Festival 2015.