JAMES MCGRATH Ex Libris
8 December - 21 January 2012
In 2010, McGrath was granted special access to the Strahov Baroque Monastic Library in Prague. Set within this notable historic building, the monastery's ornate libraries hold over 125,000 volumes of the world's best collections of philosophical and theological texts. McGrath studies of these centuries old parchments, illuminated manuscripts and first editions, form the basis of his latest body of work, ‘Ex Libris’. It is against this timeless backdrop that McGrath overlays his recurring flora-and-fauna motifs, presenting a heightened, surrealistic vision of this potent visual world.
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