Thomas Scheibitz.

DUBLIN, IRELAND.- The first solo exhibition in Ireland by the leading young German artist Thomas Scheibitz opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 14 November 2007. about 90 Elements/TOD IM DSCHUNGEL comprises some 30 new paintings, sculptures and works on paper, all direct from the artist’s studio. It also includes a new architectural build made especially for IMMA. The exhibition will be officially opened by the leading Irish playwright Mark O’Rowe at 6.00pm on Tuesday 13 November.

The title of the exhibition provides a key to the essential ideas underlying Scheibitz’s work. about 90 Elements is taken from the periodic table of chemical components, of which 90 exist in the natural world, and refers to man’s desire for order and knowledge. TOD IM DSCHUNGEL translates literally as Dead in the Jungle and refers to two different jungles, the urban and the wild. The double title expresses something of the tension between man’s desire to expose nature’s secrets and nature’s reluctance to reveal all. Scheibitz seeks to convey the underlying principles of our seemingly well-ordered world, disentangling them into abstracted scenes to reveal something of the unpredictability that lies beneath.

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