Closing Season 2 on this very special episode, Caren Sullivan talks to renowned international artist, painter, sculptor, once member of post-punk legendary band Virgin Prunes, Guggi, in 2020.Born and working in Dublin, Guggi is an artist working with drawing, painting and sculpture, Guggi digs deep into a personal yet universal subject matter: the quotidian beauty of household objects.He committedly revisits his signature motifs of bowls, jugs and vessels, using repetition and abstraction to conjure an almost meditative state. In his paintings and works on paper, their forms appear tentative: broken outlines against resonant washes of abstract colour. And yet when Guggi continues his investigations as sculpture, these humble instruments are bestowed with a renewed majesty and power: polished bronze or fibreglass forms that seem to harness and heighten energy, with the simplicity and timelessness of prehistoric artefacts. Connecting both approaches is a sense of openness and fluidity, an attentiveness to prosaic details.CURRENT & FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS2024 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (Solo, 19 January - 24 February)SOLO EXHIBITIONS2023 Memory to Form, Château La Coste, Aix-en-Provence, France; curated by Dr. Jon Wood2022 A Retrospective, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France2021 Time, Galerie 75 Fauborg, Paris,France2019 Broken, Kerlin Gallery, DublinBroken, Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan My Cup Overflows, Arcane Space, Venice,CA2018 Château La Coste, Le Puy-Saint-Réparade, Provence2017 Black and White in Colour, Yoshii Gallery, Paris2016 This is not a hotel, Yoshii Gallery, New York2013 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin2012 Accademia Fine Art, MonacoBe Palermitano Gallery, Buenos Aires 2011 Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany2010 Yoshii Gallery, New York2009 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin2005 Solomon Galley, Dublin2004 Osborne Samuel Gallery, London 2002 Solomon Gallery, DublinPermanent Installation, Beacon Court,Dublin2001 Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York Solomon Gallery, Dublin1997 Permanent Installation, Clarence Hotel, Dublin1993 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin1991 Two-person exhibition with Sibylle Ungers, Ric Urmel Gallery, Gent, Belgium 1990 Kerlin Gallery, DublinTwo-person exhibition with Sibylle Ungers, Gallerie Schurr, Stuttgart1989 Two-person exhibition with Sibylle Ungers, Kerlin Gallery, DublinSELECTED COLLECTIONSNational Gallery of Ireland, Dublin Irish Museum of Modern Art, DublinChâteau La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France Akureyi Municipal Art Gallery, Iceland The Clarence Hotel, Dublin Kelly's Resort Hotel, WexfordFor more information, follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_Follow artist Guggi on Instagram @guggi_artist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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