Don Quixote
Lido by Paul McKinley from the Arts Council Collection. Video still by Michael John Whelan. A RESPONSE to the famous Cervantes novel Don Quixote by artists attached to the Olivier Cornet Gallery in Dublin, forms the basis of a special exhibition taking place at the National Opera House during the Festival.
The group exhibition coincides with the production of Massenet’s ‘Don Quichotte’ and will be launched by Wexford Festival Opera chairwoman Dr. Mary Kelly on the third floor of the Opera House on Friday, October 18 at 6 p.m. ahead of the first public dress rehearsal of ‘Don Quichotte’.
The collection titled ‘Drawing on Don Quixote’ features new work by the artists represented by the Olivier Cornet Gallery and members of the gallery’s AGA group including Annika Berglund, Aisling Conroy, Hugh Cummins, John Fitzsimons, Jordi Fornies, Conrad Frankel, David Fox, Claire Halpin, Nickie Hayden, Eoin Mac Lochlainn, Miriam McDonnon, Sheila Naughton, Yanny Petters, Kelly Ratchford, Vicky Smith and Susanne Wawra.
The work inspired by the world’s first modern novel, will also be represented at VUE Art Fair 2019 taking place at the RHA, Dublin from November 7to10.
The opera ‘Don Quichotte’, in five acts, which was composed to a French libretto by Henri Cain, relates only indirectly to the great novel by Miguel de Cervantes. It was first performed on February 19, 1910 at the Opera de Monte-Carlo. The French composer was born in 1842 in Saint-Etienne (Loire) and in an interesting twist, the same city where most members of gallerist and curator Olivier Cornmet’s Righter of Wrongs No. 1 by Eoin Mac Lochlainn.
immediate family were also born and where he completed his secondary education. WEXFORD artist Rose-Mary Clancy returns to the Starview Café in the National Opera House for a small exhibition of her latest work during the Wexford Festival.
Rose-Mary, a graduate of the College of Marketing & Design, Dublin, who worked as a display designer in her studio for the renowned Weir & Sons Ltd of Grafton Street, is displaying four original oils with a floral theme.
Her depiction of flowers is forensic in detail and harmony, filling each canvas as she paints an expansive interpretation of what she sees.
Striking in their originality, the oils are sumptuous but also reflect Rose-Mary’s delicacy of touch and acute precision.
The exhibition will open on Saturday, October 19. Flower by Rose-Mary Clancy.