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ERIK FEELY EXHIBITION – EYE OF THE BEHOLDER – TUESDAY FEBRUARY 19 TO WEDNESDAY MARCH 5, 2008

  

Erik Feely read Art History at Trinity College, Dublin, and spent one year on scholarship in Italy before qualifying with an M.A. in 1982. He also simultaneously graduated in Graphic Design thus combining art theory and practice. On his moving to Trinidad he was working in the abstract geometric style and exhibited several times. From 1997-2002 he lived in Caracas where he taught at the Armando Reveron Art School and the Central University. Specialising in watercolours, he showed in the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas in May 2000. Interest in installations and social criticism led him to hold two individual shows at the Caracas experimental Galleries, Espacio Unus and Espacio Nexus. In 2004-2005 he held shows in Dublin and Rome.

 

About his upcoming Exhibition, The Eye of the Beholder at In2Art, he states that the adage ‘Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder’ seems increasingly a mask for the contemporary laziness that impedes an earnest search, a peering beyond. Can one ever describe as truly ‘beautiful’ work from the hands of men? He quotes a passage from Don Quixote where Cervantes, in describing the connoisseur’s ability to appreciate subtleties and nuances, narrates the tale of a wine cask. Upon tasting the first reaction was to detect a faint flavour of old leather followed by a light metallic tang. When eventually the cask was opened it was discovered that a key on a leather string had been accidentally dropped inside!

 

Expertise, in this artist’s view, is surely the initial phase of aesthetic experience. On this basis one is willing to respect personal tastes. However the real issue arrives when a universal judgment is attempted. Would it not appear too bold an affirmation? Should we not be content to live in a muddle of apparent contradictions which seem inherent in life itself?

 

Work, for Feely, and he expects for most artists, is precisely a struggle to reconcile these apparent dichotomies.

 

Erik Feely’s Exhibition at In2Art opens on Tuesday February 19 and concludes on Wednesday March 5, 2008.