Kerlin Gallery Art Basel Hong Kong Hall 1C, Booth 11 22–26 March 2016

Sean Scully, Untitled (Landline), 2015, oil on aluminium, 215.9 x 190.5 cm / 85 x 75 in

Dorothy Cross (IE) Liam Gillick (GB) Isabel Nolan (IE) Jan Pleitner (DE) (IE)

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Whale, 2011, Cuvier whale skeleton, cord, wood, rusted bucket and marble plinth, 700 cm / 275.6 in long

DOROTHY CROSS b. 1956, ,

Working in sculpture, film and photography, Dorothy Cross examines the relationship between living beings and the natural world. Living in Connemara, a rural area on Ireland’s west coast, the artist sees the body and nature as sites of constant change, creation and destruction, new and old. In recent years, Cross’s practice has focused on nature and the ocean, working with maligned animals such as jellyfish and shark, and exploring rarely accessible areas like sea caves or shell grottos. Works to be shown at ABHK16 include Whale (2011), a dramatic work in which a Cuvier whale skeleton is hung vertically from the ceiling.

Exhibitions in 2016 will include a solo show at New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK and two group exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford, UK. Recent solo exhibitions include Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland (2014) and Turner Contemporary, UK (2013), touring to , (2014). The artist has participated in (1993), Istanbul Biennial (1997) and Liverpool Biennial (1998), and the groundbreaking 1994 exhibition Bad Girls, ICA London and CCA, Glasgow. Cross is included in the collections of Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Norton Collection, Santa Monica; Art Pace Foundation, Texas; Goldman Sachs Collection, London; The Arnolfini Trust, Bristol and TATE, London.

riggedattraction, 2014, powder coated aluminium, 180 x 640 x 10 cm / 70.9 x 252 x 3.9 in (Representative work)

LIAM GILLICK b. 1964, Aylesbury, England

Liam Gillick is one of the most prominent and important figures to have emerged in international contemporary art since the mid-1990s. The diverse forms of his art, ranging across sculpture, installation, filmmaking, writing and other, widely varied, collaborative projects, often allude to pivotal moments in the history of modern and postmodern art. Crucially, however, Gillick’s references to prior forms of progressive art are always situated in relation to other vital co-ordinates for understanding the place of art within contemporary culture. Gillick’s work brings apparently contradictory meanings into renewed proximity, thus repeatedly testing – and troubling – the terms and expectations of art within contemporary capitalism.

Liam Gillick has had many solo exhibitions and presentations including Serralves Foundation (2016); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2015); MAGASIN, Grenoble (2014); The Contemporary Austin (2013–2014); Bampton Lecture Series, Columbia University, New York (2013); Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on- Hudson, New York (2012); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2011); Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn (2010). Selected group exhibitions and biennales include the 14th Istanbul Biennale (2015); Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis (2014); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2011); MuHKA, Antwerp (2010); 8th Shanghai Biennale (2010); , (2009) and Guggenheim Museum, New York (2007).

Horizons and Expectations, 2016, cotton and powder-coated mild steel flagpole, 3 x 178 x 176 cm / 1.2 x 70.1 x 69.3 in

ISABEL NOLAN b. 1974, Dublin, Ireland

The startling objects of Isabel Nolan’s art take wildly unpredictable forms, but they are at the same time the fully consistent outcomes of a singular, searching artistic sensibility. Nolan’s works evolve out of almost scholarly processes of investigation— intensive enquiries into cosmological and botanical phenomena, perhaps, or analytical scrutiny of literary and historical texts. These contrasting means of representing reality (and of comprehending its infinitely various components) provide divergent points of departure for Nolan as she attempts to somehow account for the enduring strangeness of the world, even in its most intimately familiar forms. In the past year, Nolan has seized upon the flag as a motif, pinpointing weak points in this traditional display of power. In Horizons and Expectations, to be shown at ABHK16, a hand- dyed flag becomes completely displaced, strewn across the floor of the space.

Nolan’s recent solo shows include Launch Pad New York; (2015); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2014), to travel to Mercier Union, Toronto and CAG, Vancouver in 2016; The Model Sligo (2011), travelling to the Musée d’art moderne de Saint Etienne, France (2012); The Return Gallery, Goethe Institute, Dublin (2012/13); Gallery 2, Gallery, Dublin (2008) and , Dublin (2005). In 2005, Nolan represented Ireland at the 51st Venice Biennale as part of a group exhibition, ‘Ireland at Venice 2005’.

Untitled, 2015, oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm / 78.7 x 118.1 in

JAN PLEITNER b. 1984, Oldenburg, Germany

Deeply influenced by science fiction, the fast movement of Jan Pleitner’s jolting lines reflect both his dynamic, durational approach to painting, often completing works in single, marathon sessions, but also the speed at which the world operates on a more minute level: the speed at which sound or light can travel, for instance, or the speed at which signals are sent and received by the brain. In a sense, Pleitner’s chaotic lines evoke the frantic pace at which we are capable of processing information. But on another level, his rich, luminous colours also hint towards something more mysterious, giving a physical manifestation to the invisible forces that continuously surround our existence, or lending a highly saturated colour palette to the unchartered abyss of the subconscious mind.

Jan Pleitner is based in Düsseldorf, having graduated with an MA from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2010. Recent solo exhibitions include Kerlin Gallery (2016); Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo; Ancient & Modern, London (2014); Stadtmuseum Oldenburg (2013); Projekt Skagen 12, Denmark (2012); Avlskarl Fine Art Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2011). Recent group exhibitions include Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin and Das Haus am Lützlowplatz, Berlin (both 2015).

Untitled (Landline), 2015, oil on aluminium, 215.9 x 190.5 cm / 85 x 75 in

SEAN SCULLY b.1945, Dublin, Ireland

Sean Scully is considered to be one of the world’s leading abstract painters. His work draws on the diverse historical and cultural influences of places that, at different times, have been profoundly important to him. He has taken inspiration from many cherished, varied elements of European culture (ranging from the harmonic ideals of ancient Greek architecture to the vernacular design of stone walls in rural Ireland) but he has also successfully responded the legacy of abstraction in the United States. Scully’s commanding, internationally recognisable style of abstract art, based on repeating arrangements of discretely nuanced blocks of colour, combines considerable painterly drama with great visual delicacy. Untitled (Landline) is from the artist’s acclaimed Landline series, in which vertical forms are removed to create ‘a side-to-side motion’, mimicking the repetitive yet wholly unpredictable rhythm of the sea.

Scully has had many major museum shows worldwide, including the Smithsonian and the Hirschhorn, both Washington DC; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Haus der Kunst, Munich; IVAM, Valencia; The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Cincinnati Art Museum and the Met Museum, New York. In the past year alone, he has had major solo exhibitions at Shanghai Himalayas Art Museum; CAFA, Beijing; Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany; National Gallery of Ireland; Château la Coste, Aix-en-Provence; ; Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus, Austria and Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paolo, Brazil and the world-famous Santa Cecília de Montserrat, near Barcelona.

GALLERY HISTORY

Established in Dublin in 1988, Kerlin Gallery has built an international reputation by providing sustained and meaningful representation for leading contemporary Irish and international artists. For almost three decades, the gallery’s programme has reflected significant trends in international contemporary art with significant solo shows of Liam Gillick, Willie Doherty, Siobhán Hapaska, Phil Collins, Callum Innes, Merlin James, Albert Oehlen, Sean Scully and Hiroshi Sugimoto, among others.

In recent years, the gallery has introduced a new generation of artists working across diverse media, including Gerard Byrne, Isabel Nolan, Aleana Egan, Jan Pleitner, Sam Keogh and Eoin Mc Hugh. The gallery continues to publish artists’ catalogues and monographs independently and in association with public institutions.

Kerlin Gallery participates in six major art fairs annually, including Art Basel, Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Basel Miami Beach and Frieze New York. The gallery continues to have a unique and pivotal position in the contemporary art scene in Ireland whilst developing and expanding its international position.

CONTACT

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