'They laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian, well they're not laughing now.'³
— Notes from the artist, April (2019).
Fergus Feehily, born in Dublin in 1968, currently lives and works in Berlin and Helsinki. He has shown widely, including The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Dallas Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, Tokyo Opera City and Irish Museum of Modern Art amonst others. Feehily is currently professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts, Helsinki.
From 10 till 14 April we will again exhibit at Art Cologne and would be delighted to welcome you at our booth C26, hall 11.2. The next exhibition will open in the beginning of September.
1 'A Hazy Shade of Winter', recorded by The Bangles in 1987, a cover version of the Simon & Garfunkel song, originally.
² The album 'Round About Midnight' was realised by Miles Davis in 1957, it opens with the song of the same title, written by Thelonious Monk, Bernie Hanighen and Cootie Williams.
³ Bob Monkhouse. Monkhouse was a veteran British comedian, and this one of his most famous jokes.
The work by Berlin based artist Fergus Feehily moves within the field of painting. Feehily's works impressively prove again and again how able he is to expand the definition of painting by combining simple found fragments with complex painting. In the process of artistic appropriation and the act of painting mostly small scaled, subtle and poetic compositions come about. Challenging works of modest beauty and intensity that bring together various times and stories unleash a stream of associations.
