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Exhibitions > '12

26 July 2012 - 25 August 2012

Dante Alighieri - Inferno
A suite of 34 lithographs by Liam Ó Broin

'Dante's is a visual imagination' - T.S. Eliot

The enduring power of Dante's imagination in his masterpiece 'The Divine Comedy' has inspired artists from the Middle Ages to the present. On reading this literary epic, the artist Liam Ó Broin began three years ago the daunting challenge to create 34 coloured lithographs in response to each canto of Inferno.

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Although faithful to Dante's text, Ó Broin through his powerful imagery brings his personal perspective to bear on the central themes and contemporises Dante's voyeuristic passage through the realms of Hell by portraying the Inferno of our time as Ó Broin states "- the one which can be created by ourselves and for others, in the here and now."

These Lithographs not only deepen our appreciation of the richness of the epic's poetic language, but also seek to examine the multi-layered meanings of the text and the universal themes of life after death, divine justice and punishment, man's immoral actions and crimes to mankind.

During an artistic career that spans over forty years Liam Ó Broin was a founding director of the Black Church Print Studio and has a long association with Graphic Studio Dublin which he joined in the 1970's and where he has been chairperson since 2011.

This unique exhibition is accompanied by a deluxe full size bound book with gilded titles containing essays by Dr. Riann Coulter and Liam Ó Broin and one each of the numbered signed edition prints. Also a museum standard box set containing 34 lithographs and essays. Finally a deluxe limited edition signed and numbered book with full colour reproductions.

Click on the thumbnails to view in full, dimensions refer to paper-size h x w [image size h x w].

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All prices are for unframed work including 13.5% VAT available for sale in Graphic Studio Gallery.

Liam Ó Broin Canto I Isolation and loneliness - the worst of all torments? lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto II ...a long night's waiting. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto III Every hope abandoned. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto IV The limbo of reality - poverty, deprivation, dispossession, injustice. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350
Liam Ó Broin Canto V The kiss... "that day we read no more". lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto VI The gluttonous guarded by Cerberus, the three-headed dog. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto VII "Why do you hoard?" "Why do you squander?" The aimlessness of squandering and hoarding money. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto VIII Crossing the Styx to the burning city of Dis. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350
Liam Ó Broin Canto IX Medusa. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto X Heretics are people with whom we simply disagree. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto XI The way to Lower Hell - the landscape of future earth? lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto XII For tyrants and murderers, Phlegethon the river of boiling blood - guarded by centaurs. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350
Liam Ó Broin Canto XIII The wood of the suicides - the final act of those of us who see nothing left. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto XIV Capaneus, one of the seven against Thebes, in Hell for arrogance and defiance against the Gods. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto XV and XVI Dante meets an old friend. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto XVII They would have us believe money "grows". And there's always someone to believe. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350
Liam Ó Broin Canto XVIII Flattery and flatterers are, according to Dante, covered in shit! lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto XIX and XX Simonists, astrologers, magicians and fortune tellers - and those who believe! lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto XXI ...is this the sectarian mob? Are you from the wrong side? Perhaps they will simply say you were in the wrong place at the wrong time? lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto XXII The pantomime of Hell. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350
Liam Ó Broin Canto XXIII The mask of Hypocrisy. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto XXIV Thieves - they take what does not belong to them. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto XXV The metamorphosis of Agnello the thief. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto XXVI The death of Ulysses. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350
Liam Ó Broin Canto XXVII Deceit, lies built on lies. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto XXVIII Warmongers and sowers of discord. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto XXIX Forgers, counterfeiters and imitators. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto XXX Truth - hidden by lies, is even deeper, beneath silence. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350
Liam Ó Broin Canto XXXI On the journey to Cocytus, the central pit of Hell, the poets are lowered by the giant Briareus. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto XXXII The frozen lake Cocytus, reserved for traitors. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto XXXIII Ugolino - As long as one person is not free - Then no one is free. Henning Mankell, author. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350	Liam Ó Broin Canto XXXIV Lucifer - view this way. lithograph Ed. of 75 70 cm x 50 cm €350
Liam Ó Broin Limited edition Box Set containing one of each of the signed original prints 800mm x 700mm €6500	Liam Ó Broin Limited edition Book 150 signed & editioned 72 page 440mm x 320mm €750

Exhibitions > '12

26 July 2012 - 25 August 2012

Dante Alighieri - Inferno A suite of 34 lithographs by Liam Ó Broin

Dante Alighieri - Inferno
A suite of 34 lithographs by Liam Ó Broin