ARTIST TALK | Pascal Ungerer
GOMA are delighted to invite you to a lunchtime talk with Artist Pascal Ungerer.
27th October 1-2pm.
Free Event.
All welcome.
As
an artist Pascal is interested in peoples connection to place and land
and the wider perception of the natural or built environment and the
interrelationship between these two contrasting spaces.
His
most recent painting work looks at liminal landscapes on the margins of
human habitation, places that are temporal with a cyclical flux between
abandonment and habitation.
Pascal
says he is often drawn to unusual structures or topographies as well as
places that have storied, hidden or layered histories. ‘For me, many of
these places represent a kind of ‘otherness’ in a sometimes bleak and
foreboding environment.
Most
of my paintings are fictional landscapes where I amalgamate different
places and ideas into a metaphorical space to reflect upon wider
socio-geographic issues, but my paintings are also intrinsically linked
to the places and stories that have inspired them.’
This
exhibition – Earthbound – will showcase some exciting new work by
Ungerer in a show that brings together many of Pascal’s interests, in
pensive, foreboding and empty landscapes as well as abandoned industrial
infrastructure, which he says is ‘emblematic of an architecture of the
periphery because of its obsolescence, marginality and alterity. ‘
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Pascal Ungerer is a visual artist originally from West Cork. He holds an Honours Degree in Fine Fine Art from the Crawford College of Art in Design. In 2018 he completed a scholarship funded Masters on the prestigious MFA programme at Goldsmiths University London.
Pascal Ungerer is a visual artist originally from West Cork. He holds an Honours Degree in Fine Fine Art from the Crawford College of Art in Design. In 2018 he completed a scholarship funded Masters on the prestigious MFA programme at Goldsmiths University London.
Though he has a background in lens based media Pascal has focused on developing a painting practice over recent years.
He
has exhibited his work extensively throughout Europe – as well as in
North America and Asia – including Blackburn Museum, CICA Museum South
Korea, Roman Road Gallery London and the Visual Center for Contemporary
Art, Ireland.
He
has won and been shortlisted for many awards such as the Alliance
Franciase de Cork Exhibition Award, the Bloomberg New Contemporaries,
The Solo Award, The Alpine Fellowship, The Sunny Art Prize, The ACS
Studio Prize and the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize.
He has received funding awards and bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland, Cork County Council, Cork City Council, Culture Ireland and Goldsmiths University London.
He has received funding awards and bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland, Cork County Council, Cork City Council, Culture Ireland and Goldsmiths University London.
His work is held in numerous private collections in Ireland, the UK, the US, France, Germany and Switzerland.
