Tony Irving Exhibition 2009 - Eva Breuer Art Dealer

Tony Irvig Exhibition Podcast
Other places, other views: September 12 - 25, 2009

Other places, other views draws on the local architecture of Irvings native Victoria, his extensive European travels and a love of the Old Masters. The large scale of works such as the monumental, Motel, forces the viewer to consider bland 1960s architecture in a new context along side similarly large paintings of European side streets. Siesta in Constantina is precisely executed, as are all the paintings; every detail is paid acute attention from the faded stripes of a pedestrian crossing to the cast iron arabesques of street lamp brackets. Shadows in Time is based on a street in Castlemaine Victoria but brings to mind the vast Venice panoramas of Canaletto.

Irving softens the seriousness of the size and detailed execution of these paintings with his characteristic humor placing a squashed Mcdonalds cup on the tarmac in Shadows in Time, a loan dog pacing the street during siesta in Bar Gregorio or a cat at the window of a down and out Motel in Motel.

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