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New Geopolitical Paintings

Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin | 19.10.2012 20:00 | Culture | Globalisation | Social Struggles

A series of oil paintings examining the daily existence of people in the worst working, living (and dying) conditions in the global economy.

Athens Demonstrations 2012
Athens Demonstrations 2012

Madrid Demonstrations 2012
Madrid Demonstrations 2012

Striking Miners, South Africa 2012
Striking Miners, South Africa 2012

Shadow of a Gunman, Sudan
Shadow of a Gunman, Sudan

Aleppo, Syrian Army
Aleppo, Syrian Army

Street Battles, The Congo
Street Battles, The Congo

Duékoué, Côte d'Ivoire
Duékoué, Côte d'Ivoire

Ogaden, Ethiopia
Ogaden, Ethiopia

Pakistan
Pakistan

Sortie
Sortie

Massacre
Massacre


"Tolerance slides easily towards indifference, as the efficiency of the economy becomes the only shared commitment. Similarly, compromise turns readily into complacency, when the familiar seems safer than the unknown. 'Neutrality', it often turns out, is not neutral at all, but sides with the way things are to avoid the dissension that might lead to change for the better. Consensus, then, may come into conflict with justice." (Catherine Belsey Poststructuralism)

This ongoing series of paintings looks at conflict situations around the world. It is made in solidarity with the people involved in the struggles presented and seeks, like international journalism, to portray and analyze events as they are happening. This is not easy in visual art. In the narrative form the elements can be read one after another. In visual art the painting tells a story by encompassing all the elements in one composition. While some paintings do focus on one aspect of a particular conflict (the victims of conflict), in the main they seek to portray the opposing groups in a single image.

Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
- e-mail: caoimhghin@yahoo.com
- Homepage: http://gaelart.net/

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Thank you.

19.10.2012 22:56

Thank you for posting these paintings.

anonymous

wow!

20.10.2012 08:17

Thanks, they're amazing and alive and terrible at the same time. Good to see paintings on Indymedia.

anon

Those are pretty good paintings

20.10.2012 09:18

The painter has talent; he seems to be able to capture a scene with a few well-chosen strokes. I presume he hasn't been to all these places, and is painting from photos; they have a sort of photo-ish quality.

Thanks...

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