Pascal Ungerer 2023

Pascal Ungerer
3 January to 25 February 2023

For his third residency at Uillinn, Pascal Ungerer aims to develop the work he began during his initial residency at Uillinn in 2020, working on a larger scale, and to conclude this body of work in advance of his solo exhibition at Uillinn in September/October 2023.

Much of the painting work Pascal has developed over the past 3 years looks at liminal landscapes on the ‘edgelands’ and the margins of human habitation. His work often examines the in-between spaces that lie at the intersection of the urban and rural.

He has a particular interest in obsolete structures on the margins of urban development and in rural hinterlands, from historical ruins to decommissioned industrial infrastructure, which he sees as a kind of  ‘architecture of the periphery’ because of its marginality, otherness and obsolescence.

Pascal says most of his paintings are ‘fictional landscapes where I amalgamate different places and ideas into a metaphorical space to reflect upon wider socio-geographic issues such as areas of post-industrialisation, ecological degradation, rural de-population or topographies or environments that are in states of flux.’ 

Though his work is not necessarily dystopian it alludes to an uncertain future and challenge’s normative perceptions of the natural and built environment and the interrelationship and juxtaposition between these two contrasting and sometimes conflicting spaces.

Pascal will share his work through an Artist’s Talk and Open Studio as well as facilitating a Masterclass to present some of the techniques he uses in his painting practice.

https://www.pascalungerer.com/

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Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre’s Artist Residency Programme is supported by the Arts Council and Cork County Council.