"Flesh & Sensations from the Baroque” is a joint exhibition featuring the works of Irish artist and printmaker Ireland 3000 and American figurative artist David Manno.

Employing the body as a shared point of departure, concepts related to figuration, narrative and iconography are presented in a visually high-contrast dialogue that probes the overlapping meanings of figuration in contemporary art.

Morality, existential disquiet, faith and systems of intrapersonal navigation are given space to elicit divergent responses to the human form, questioning the body as the site where interiority and objectivity manifest.

Flesh is an inherently charged material, as it prompts reactions that are contradictory in nature: disgust, compassion, fear, attraction and so on. David Manno, an artist from New York working in Ireland, explores the beauty and complexity of flesh through a series of abstract/figurative charcoal works on paper.

Ireland 3000, an Irish artist working in Berlin, re-imagines iconic religious paintings from the Baroque period by the likes of Carravagio and Rubens in the form of large scale brightly coloured wood block prints that force us to re-examine our perceptions of theological aesthetics with a sense of humour while at the same time making us think seriously about history, identity and politics.

Ireland 3000 is an artist name inspired by Irish artist Brian O’Doherty and Dadaist Marcel Duchamp. An artistic construct that allows the artist to use his identity as an ongoing work of art, it represents his hopes for an inclusive Ireland that moves into the future looking outwards unburdened by Irish conservative values and nationalism.