BODIES IN TROUBLE

Peter Maloney

May 8th - June 20th 2009 | CCAS Goman

Peter Maloney’s art demonstrates a self-consciously deliberate connection between process and concept, between form and content. It simultaneously and democratically asserts the importance of image, idea and making. He plays with the movements inherent in the relationship between object/image and process, to create direct confrontations with matter and meaning(s). For him painting is both the painting itself and the representation of an idea(or ideas) about painting generally. For him also, meaning as an elusive ingredient is essential to coerce the viewer into full engagement with the image and the aesthetic, conceptual and formal processes that went into its making.

In Bodies in Trouble Maloney presents two areas of his practice - paintings and archival inkjet prints. Each informs the other whilst maintaining its own aesthetic and conceptual autonomy. Both display fragmentation and layering as central elements in their making and both aver that there is no single way of looking that can contain all the pictorial possibilities invested in any single image by its maker.

Image: Peter Maloney, Burial, 2009, acrylic on canvas