Back, Sack and Crack - Billy Dante

St. Peters Cork, North Main Street

Thu 18 Aug 2022 - Thu 01 Sep 2022 (note: this event has already taken place)
10am
FREE

Back, Sack and Crack

Billy Dante is a contemporary artist from Cork (a graduate of the Crawford College of Art and Design) and is currently based out of MART, Dublin. Billy Dante has exhibited both nationally and internationally with recent solo exhibitions in MART, St. Johns Theatre and Arts Centre, Listowel, Co. Kerry in 2021 and had work featuring in the 192nd RHA annual exhibition 2022. This is the first solo exhibition of the artist's work in Cork since 2015.

Back, Sack and Crack is an exhibition of paintings that delves into the gaps in society and exposes the beauty in observing that which has been neglected and overlooked. So much of our world fades into the background, the backdrop to the stage on which we stand. This

work shifts the spotlight onto the backdrop and poses a question; does beauty lay in a moment considered? Glare upon the painted marks that are supposed to govern how we move as they merge with dirt or remove the