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Aidan Dunne on a melancholy maze without a solution
Stephen Brandes combines a sense of the absurd, rootedness and rootlessness, with a keen attention to local detail and oddities
Napoleon, Deirdre and Ken. Schmerzbau by Stephen Brandes at the Model gallery in Sligo.
Aidan Dunne
Mon Jul 25 2022 - 05:00
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Aidan Dunne
Aidan Dunne is a visual arts critic and contributor to The Irish Times
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