Marcel Vidal
Marcel Vidal makes paintings and sculptures. Quietly disarming and unsettling us with an ominous beauty, Vidal’s paintings are marked by their controlled brushwork, layering oil on linen with delicacy and precision. They are refined and restrained, incarnating brightly lit fragments of photographs or digital images: unidentified figures seem caught by flashbulbs.
Marcel Vidal
Banana XIII 2022
oil on linen
160 x 120 cm / 63 x 47.2 in
Images courtesy of the artist and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.
Survey
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Untitled, 2012
oil on canvas, fruit box wood frame
30 x 25 cm / 11.8 x 9.8 in -
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Balcony, 2017
expanding foam, spray paint, wood, watercolour on paper, framed with glass bitumen, zinc fittings, castor wheels, animal hooves, glue, twine, linen, plaster
196 x 62 x 62 cm / 77.2 x 24.4 x 24.4 inArts Council of Ireland Collection
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Grey, yellow, 2020
oil on linen
140 x 105 cm / 55.1 x 41.3 in -
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Banana VIII, 2021
oil on linen
160 x 120 cm / 63 x 47.2 in
Biography
Marcel Vidal is a multi-award winning artist honoured with RHA Hennessy Craig Award, Golden Fleece Award, Arts Council's Next Generation Award (2019) and received a Fire Station Artist Studios (2020-2023) and RHA Tony O'Malley Residency (2023-2024). His work is featured in the book "100 Sculptors of Tomorrow" by Thames & Hudson. Represented by Kerlin Gallery, Vidal had his first solo exhibition with them in 2021. Selected exhibitions: PeripheriePAIRí project, Pairing with Ciara Roach, Gorey School of Art (2024); "MAKING ART: Sculpting," curated by Sara Muthi, DraÌocht (2023); "GENERATION 2022: New Irish Painting," curated by Anna O'Sullivan, Butler Gallery (2022); "Wayward Eye," TBG+S (2021).
