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Liliane Tomasko

LILIANE TOMASKO

Twofold Kerlin Gallery 13 September–19 October 2024 Dublin
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In Twofold, Tomasko’s distinctive, bold lyricism and assertive sense of colour unfold across twinned panels of aluminium or linen. Opening up spatial possibility, this diptych format allows tone, form and texture to dialogue back and forth across surfaces, sparking new resonances and shaping our understanding of each panel in relation to its neighbour. These paintings must negotiate two distinct voices – sometimes finding harmony, elsewhere tension; forging complex relationships that actively engage the viewer. ‘To confront these monumental diptychs of Tomasko is to enter a garden of forking paths, a forest of signs,’ writes critic Raphy Sarkissian in a newly commissioned text. ‘Diaphanous and opaque forms coexist within these enigmatic diptychs.’

Like much of Tomasko’s oeuvre, the works in _Twofold _appear abstract but bear deep and tangled connections to the pictorial and narrative worlds. Larger shapes, suggestive of figures, come in and out of focus, fragmenting and coming back together in the mind’s eye. The work is also shaped by the artist’s longstanding interest in mythologies, particularly narratives of equilibrium and justice, such as the ancient concept of the weighing of the soul. Tomasko’s enquiry intoform, colour and shape, and the profound emotional resonances they can imbue, is continued in a new series of works on paper. Each one offers a discordant web of colour and line; a denser counterpoint to the expansive duality of the diptychs. Together, the works in _Twofold _offer a luminous excavation of the human psyche.

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Liliane Tomasko’s abstract paintings employ a distinctive, bold lyricism, with an equally unabashed sense of colour. The artist often begins with a study of the personal effects of everyday domesticity such as bedding or clothing to create work that suggests a gateway into the realms of sleep and dreaming; delving into the gulf between what we understand as the ‘conscious’ and ‘subconscious.’ This new series of paintings display an increasing vitality and assertiveness, articulating an abstraction that is rooted in the physical realm but attempting a departure from it. Intense colour, subtle tone, shadows and painterly gesture are woven together in such a way that space comes in and out of focus, suspending one’s perception of them and emulating the clarity or lack thereof of dreams and memories

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Siobhán Hapaska Kerlin Gallery 4 June–11 July 2026 Dublin
About the Gallery

Kerlin Gallery was founded in Dublin in 1988. It has built an international reputation for its dedicated, meaningful representation of leading contemporary artists through its exhibition, publishing and art fair programmes. Its current site was designed by the minimalist architect John Pawson in 1994 and offers 3,600 square feet of exhibition space over two floors in the heart of Dublin City Centre.

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Anne's Lane
South Anne Street
Dublin
Ireland
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Tuesday – Friday, 10am – 5:30pm
Saturday, 11am – 4:30pm
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Dublin Anne's Lane, South Anne Street
Kerlin Gallery contemporary art gallery in Dublin Ireland
Kerlin Gallery
Anne's Lane, South Anne Street, Dublin, Ireland
+35 316 709 093
http://www.kerlin.ie

Opening hours
Tuesday – Friday, 10am – 5:30pm
Saturday, 11am – 4:30pm
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