James Rielly

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James Rielly (born December 10, 1956 in Wrexham , Wales) is a British painter.

Life

James Rielly grew up on the Welsh island of Anglesey . For his artistic training he attended the Gloucester College of Art & Design in Cheltenham from 1975 to 1978 and the Belfast College of Art in Belfast, Northern Ireland from 1980 to 1981. In the 1980s and 1990s in particular, he received several prizes and grants, including the Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts Exhibition and Travel Award in 1983 , a grant for the Fine Art Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA, in 1984/1985, and the Greater London Arts in 1986 Individual Artist Award . In 1988/1989 he was on a grant at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. In 1995 he was awarded a MOMART fellowship from the Tate Gallery Liverpool. In 1995 he won the John Moores Award and in 1997 he was nominated for the Jerwood Prize . Rielly lived and worked for a long time in East London and later in France. In 2006 he was appointed professor of painting at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

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Rielly paints some of his pictures with oil on canvas. Another part of his work consists of watercolors executed on paper . In addition, there are individual sheets of paper that are painted with black ink alone, so that the representations resemble paper cutouts. Rielly's art is always figurative. Mostly people can be seen, rarely individual animals or buildings, as in his painting “Partially Buried” (2004), which is dedicated to his childhood memories of the Aberfan disaster , and the question of how memories continue to have an effect.

Studying in Northern Ireland in the early 1980s had a major impact on Rielly's art. Rielly never saw himself as a political artist, but the political slogans on the walls, carried out in a cartoon- like style, influenced him, as did the religious iconography he often encountered here. Further sources of inspiration are works from classical European art history and popular culture , including the work of the comic artist Robert Crumb , the punk of the Sex Pistols and television series such as " Doctor Who ".

Thematically, his pictures are mostly portraits in which both the individual and the general can be recognized. The portraits show people and “their biographical auras”, consisting of secrets, events, injuries, through which the people were formed. Such injuries are visible in the picture, but their circumstances are not explained, which is why they remain puzzling, which sometimes leads to misinterpretations - which the artist has taken into account. From the political violence in Northern Ireland, which Rielly observed closely in the 1980s, his artistic path led to the portrayal of violence in everyday life, which is far more universal. Recurring details that indicate this are wounds, but also games of hide and seek and disguises. Often children are depicted, thereby opposing the myth of childhood as an innocent and sheltered time. The relationships between adults and children play an equally important role, showing how adults offer role models for children, but also how adults absorb roles from their childhood. Humor in the forms of the grotesque is an important element in all pictures.

Stylistically, Rielly's pictures are reminiscent of comic drawings. The color appears flat, there are clear contours and strong contrasts. What is striking is the extremely light skin of the sitter, so that they not only appear unhealthy pale, but almost ghostly. The often dark eyes are therefore alarmingly intense.

Since Rielly's pictures were shown in the highly acclaimed exhibition “ Sensation ” (1997), he has been included in the group of Young British Artists . In contrast to many of the works of art shown there, however, what is important for Rielly's work is less the spectacular and overwhelming than a subversive calm. Rielly exhibits regularly internationally, including a. in the USA, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, France and Switzerland.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2015: Ty Hyll , Beaux-Arts de Paris, Cabinet des dessins Jean Bonna, France
  • 2014: Punch Me. , La Box, Bourges, France
  • 2012: Nothing and something , Charlotte Moser Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 2011: What wisdom , Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, United States
  • 2010: Spirits in the sky, James Rielly , Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich
  • 2009: James Rielly , IM Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
  • 2008: New Works on Paper , Rabley Contemporary Drawing Center, Marlborough, Great Britain
  • 2006: Tell Me a Story , Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, United States
  • 2005: Life of Rielly , Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, Great Britain
  • 2004: Rex Irwin Fine Art , Sydney, Australia
  • 2003: Late and Early, a split-site installation at the Round Room , Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh and Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, Great Britain
  • 2002 James Rielly , Centro de Arte de Salamanca (CASA), Salamanca, Spain
  • 1998: James Rielly , Center d! Art Neuchâtel (CAN), Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • 1997: Sensible Ways , Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
  • 1994–1996: James Rielly , Laurent Delaye Gallery, London, Great Britain
  • 1989: James Rielly , Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
  • 1986/1987: James Rielly , Carlile Gallery, London, Great Britain
  • 1985: James Rielly , Bayer Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States
  • 1983: Artist in Residence , Art & Research Exchange Galley, Belfast, Great Britain

Group exhibitions

  • 2014: Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain Center Pompidou, Paris, France
  • 2009: Fate and Freewill , Cas, New York, United States
  • 2008: Hope and Despair , Cell Project Space, London, Great Britain
  • 2007: El rey de la casa (King of the house) , Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, ​​Spain
  • 2006: Castlefield Gallery , Manchester; Limehouse Arts Foundation, London, UK
  • 2005: XS , Galeria Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid, Spain
  • 2005: (…) The duck was still alive , Abbaye Saint-Andre, Center d! Art contemporain, Meymac, France
  • 2004: Contre-Images , Carré d! Art, Nimes, France
  • 2003: Outlook , Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
  • 2003: Anthropography , Frissiras collection, Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
  • 2003: Child in Time: views of contemporary artists on youth and adolescence , Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Netherlands
  • 2003: Childhood , Centro de Arte de Salamanca (CASA), Salamanca, Spain
  • 2002: La tête de l! Emploi , FRAC Auvergne, Center Culturel Valery Larbaud, France
  • 2000: The Double , The Lowry Art Center, Salford, Manchester, Great Britain
  • 1999: Arts Council Collection , Towner Art Gallery and Museum, Eastbourne, Great Britain
  • 1999: Fresh Paint , Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Great Britain
  • 1998: Tell Me a Story: Narration in Contemporary Painting and Photography , Magasin - Center National d! Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
  • 1997: Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection , Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain
  • 1997: Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
  • 1997: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, United States
  • 1997: Les Péchés Capitaux: La Gourmandise , Musée National d! Art Moderne, Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
  • 1995: Making it: process and participation , Tate Gallery, Liverpool, Great Britain
  • 1986: Recent Acquisitions Show , Art Association Gallery and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States
  • 1985: New Figurations , Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States
  • 1984: Art Association Gallery and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States

Collections (selection)

Literature (selection)

  • Fiona Bradley: Making It: Process and Participation . Tate Galley, Liverpool 1995.
  • Stuart Morgan, Arielle Pélanc, La Salle Blanche: Sensible Ways . Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes 1997.
  • Brooks Adams, Norman Rosenthal, Richard Shone, Martin Maloney and Lisa Jardine: Sensation: Young British Artists from The Saatchi Collection . Thames and Hudson, London 1997.
  • Sarah Kent, Richard Cork, Dick Price, Charles Saatchi: Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade . Booth-Clibborn Editions, London 1998.
  • Yves Aupetitallot: Tell Me A Story . Le Magasin Center National D! Art Contemporain, Grenoble 1999.
  • Emma Anderson, Gilda Williams: The Double . The Lowry Art Center, Salford 2000.
  • Dan Fox: James Rielly . Timothy Taylor Gallery, London 2001.
  • Maite Lorés, Dan Fox: James Rielly . Centro de Arte de Salamanca, 2002.
  • Roy Exley: James Rielly . Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid 2003.
  • Régis Durand, Françoise Cohen, Daniel Buren: Contre-Images . Carré d! Art, Nîmes 2004.
  • Michael Wilson: James Rielly . ARTFORUM, 2004.
  • Marc Olivier Wahler: Life of Rielly . Timothy Taylor Gallery, London 2005.
  • Martin Herbert: James Rielly, watercolors . Timothy Taylor Gallery, Galeria Ramis Barquet, London / New York 2006.
  • Charlotte Mullins: Painting People . Thames and Hudson, London 2006.
  • Heike Endter: Disappeared . Gallery Wittenbrink, Munich 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maite Lorés: An Interview with James Rielly . In: Centro de Arte de Salamanca (ed.): James Rielly . Salamanca 2002, p. 7-8 .
  2. ^ Roy Exley: James Rielly: More Questions than Answers . In: Galeria Distrito CU4TRO (Ed.): James Rielly. Made in East London . Madrid 2003, p. 25 .
personal data
SURNAME Rielly, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Wrexham , Wales