Elements of Sculpture

Solomon Fine Art@15 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin Daily Feb 6-12 045-862940

Orla de Bri is known for her poised, witty figurative sculptures. They engage with the audience in a way that has won her many fans – and commissions. This show, two years in the making, is something of a departure.

Drawing on the improbable combination of Nietzschian ideas of self-realisation and the golden age of Dutch still-life painting, de Bri has devised a series of humorous figures and tableaux, employing small-scale bronzes and real fruit and vegetables. Each figure or pair of figures is partnered with a staged photographic tableau that enacts the perils and pitfalls of developing as a sane, rounded individual, from birth to maturity. The ideal, de Bri notes, is to avoid narcissistic selfishness, as well as the comfort of received opinions and beliefs, and accept a multiplicity of views and possibilities.

Solomon Fine Art usually stages exhibitions in the Merrion. For Elements of Sculpture, Solomon has moved temporarily into 15 St Stephen's Green.

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