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I want to get off now
I Want To Get Off Now!
Two person show: Jennifer Cunningham and Simon Fleming at Monstertruck Gallery, Templebar, Dublin.
Opens 6pm, Friday 10th June. All are welcome.
With the advent of cheap air travel comes the demise of the carnival. Dreamland, Luna park, the abandoned 6 flags park in New Orleans, Coney island, have all suffered from neglect in recent years.
Video stills Jennifer Cunningham
Their dilapidated foreshores consist of rundown shops, fast-food outlets and derelict arcades. Brash gaudy amusement arcades flicker and wink, pumping demented electronic rhythms into the night, their seedy sheen has a strange allure. Among the dandelions and the chip wrappers, a shoddinesss is revealed. There is rust under the paintwork, cracks in the plaster, and the chairs are well worn. For many people they are nostalgic places, they spark off a range of associations and images, of feelings and senses.
Artists Simon Fleming and Jennifer Cunningham will have an exhibition that explores and revisualises the concept of the tired carnival. There is a mutual apreciation in the aesthetic overload of colour, pattern, and form found in these strange other-worlds and they will be showing a range of work from mixed media drawings and video to a large scale sculpture interacting with the gallery space.
About the Artists.
Jennifer Cunningham is a visual artist who works with paint, printmaking and drawing, film and digital media. She graduated with a first class honours degree from GMIT in 2002 and completed a Masters in fine art from N.C.A.D in Dublin, 2008. She is member of the Blackchurch print studio in Dublin and has been selected for a studio in the RHA in July-Dec 2010. Her practice is anchored within the parameters of self and becoming self-aware. It also deals with our surroundings, the notion of ‘das unheimlich’ or the uncanny and how familiar environments appear strange to us.
Simon Fleming is a Canadian artist that moved to Galway, Ireland in 2008. He studied Fine art at the University of Guelph & Illustration at Sheridan College. His practice revolves loosely around the concepts associated with sentiments of nostalgia (or fabricated histories) and identities of place. Using imagery sourced from a both personal & public historical context, Simon cuts and pastes ideas to create new narratives and new histories.
Drawings: Jennifer Cunningham
Simon and Jennifer would like to thank everyone who helped fund this exhibition including all our fundit funders below. see
www.fundit.ie.