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SUMMARY:These Magnetic Magnitudes | Cecilia Danell at Solstice Arts Centre
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition continues 14 June – 16 August 2025.\n\nThese Magne
 tic Magnitudes\nCecilia Danell\nCurated by Brenda McParland\n\nThese Magne
 tic Magnitudes is a solo exhibition of new and recent paintings\, textiles
 \, ceramics and film by Cecilia Danell\, curated by Brenda McParland. The 
 exhibition explores the overarching theme of contemporary landscapes and o
 ur unfulfilled yearning for that which is primal and unspoilt\, filtered t
 hrough the lens of psychogeography\, Science Fiction and the sublime. In a
  practice which is rooted in materiality and process\, the starting point 
 for Danell’s work is a first-hand engagement with the landscape of the a
 rea in Sweden where she grew up. Bodily memories of moving through the pla
 ces she depicts are mirrored in the physical endeavour of painting on a la
 rge scale\, which creates its own spatial choreography. The landscapes Dan
 ell depicts are real places that she has encountered and photographed. How
 ever rather than offering a documentary view of these places\, she uses fi
 ction and the imaginary to speak about present and possible futures throug
 h a Science Fiction reading of the landscape. A new series of large painti
 ngs considers ideas around spectatorship and participation\, inspired by t
 he large nature dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History in New 
 York. We are presented with scenes that invite the viewer to step into the
 m\, yet the 2D surfaces of her paintings prevent us. Danell continuously p
 oints back to this push and pull between realism\, abstraction and the mat
 eriality of paint itself. She uses oil and acrylic on canvas in vivid shad
 es of greens\, purples and pinks\, using acrylic washes and layers beneath
  the oil paint\, and acrylic for drips because of its viscosity and veloci
 ty.\n\nDanell is predominantly a painter\, but also makes textile tapestri
 es\, ceramic and fabric sculptures and occasionally films. Danell recalls 
 idyllic summer childhood memories of the Swedish countryside in her oversi
 zed fabric sculpture Lupin\, 2024 which is both beautiful and treacherous 
 as lupins are listed as an invasive species in Sweden\, that should be era
 dicated when found in the wild. A series of ceramic sculptures in pastel s
 hades and three large colourful appliqúe tapestries memorialise snow for 
 future generations by playing with its properties of hiding and abstractin
 g the underlying shapes. Echoing the snowy vistas in The Left Hand of Dark
 ness by Ursula Le Guin\, these are imaginary “ur-forms” that touch upo
 n the primeval\, merging colourful playfulness with a solemn reminder of c
 limate change and the state of our planet. In the same room\, the film Sno
 w Day\, 2025 (15 mins) camera/editing by Danell\; soundtrack by Keith Wall
 ace/Loner Deluxe captures a first-person view of the artist moving through
  the snowy woods in Sweden which is both immersive and atmospheric.\n\nA h
 ardback catalogue with texts by Aidan Dunne and Charity Coleman will be pu
 blished by Solstice Arts Centre and Kevin Kavanagh in autumn 2025.\n\nThe 
 gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday 11am - 4pm.
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LOCATION:Solstice Arts Centre\, Railway street\, Navan\, Meath\, Ireland
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