Marcel Vidal

Allergy, 2025

Oil on linen

‘Allergy presents an intimate portrait drawn from an ordinary, fleeting moment. A faint smile and tissues protruding from both nostrils are set against the soft focus and direct flash of the photographic source. Rendered in oil on linen, the painting crops and reworks the original image, fragmenting its context and leaving the circumstances of the scene unresolved. The title offers a possible explanation, while the painting gives sustained attention to details that might otherwise pass unnoticed.’

Ailléirge, 2025

Olaphictiúr ar línéadach 

‘Is portráid phearsanta é Ailléirge atá bunaithe ar ghnáthnóiméad laethúil. Tá meangadh gáire beag agus ciarsúir pháipéir le feiceáil ag gobadh amach as dhá pholláire, os comhair fócais bhoig agus splanc dhíreach fhoinse an ghrianghraif. Rindreáilte in ola ar línéadach, bearrann agus athshaothraíonn an pictiúr an íomhá bhunaidh, cruthaítear blúirí agus fágtar imthosca an radhairc gan réiteach. Tá seans ann go bhfuil míniú le fáil sa teideal, agus tarraingítear aird leanúnach sa phictiúr ar mhionsonraí a d’fhéadfaí a ligean i ndearmad seachas sin.‘
 

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