PIGSY
Ciarán is an architect in Dublin, Ireland, the city where he was born and where, due to his dyslexia, he attended all the Irish language schools.
Under the name Pigsy, he presents himself as an artist, bringing elements of architecture to his expressionist works, without the limitations of architecture, a process that began in the hallways of schools, during his long waits outside the classroom, more than 20 years ago.
His painting, often autobiographical, expresses what goes on in his head, showing the frustration and at the same time the fascination he has with letters.
@PIGSYINSPACE
2022
CRIPTO CLAST & OTHERS
Irishman from Dublin, Pigsy (stage name of Ciarán McCoy) works with a visual language characterized by the bridges between graffiti and an aesthetic that can be considered neo-expressionist due to the way he constructs his images, with a visceral gesturality.
It is a spontaneous language that includes visual elements of urban art and does not attempt to camouflage spelling errors resulting from dyslexia.
The artist allows himself the freedom to overcome any inhibitions in the name of artistic constructions that stem from the way he sees and feels the world.
There is much spontaneity and speed in a unique poetics that achieves a direct and intense communication with the observer.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
2023
GAME DAY
The division of the pictorial area into visual sectors proposes a peculiar narrative, in which each fragment has an isolated importance, but also dialogues with the proposed whole. Relationships are thus constructed that establish a narrative whose highlights include the presence of bodies with open arms and faces often destroyed and fragmented. The heart conveys lyricism and life in a playful visual journey characterized by a language close to graffiti and street art, where attentive observations allow for the establishment of renewed meanings between the parts proposed by the artist.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
2024
WHY TIE OURSELVES IN KNOTS
The image conveys the power of a feeling of not only being in the world, but of experiencing all that it offers. The proposed work goes beyond a traditional and classical conception of beauty, as it consists of a creation full of impact, characterized by an inventive process that does not completely detach itself from what is considered real, but works with it on various levels, permanently constructing and deconstructing worldviews full of lyricism in which real and imaginary prisons are presented and destroyed in an atmosphere full of enigmas and mysteries that challenge the observer.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
2025
WRENCH (NO GADGETS CAN FIX THIS)
The poetics of work develops from understanding the mind's machinery as a creative space always ready to provide its own answers for survival, especially in the emotional aspect. The chaotic appearance is a way of conceiving space as a place full of questions where there is not just one answer, but rather a multiplicity of them depending on the moment and the individual. The apparent chaos thus becomes a creative space with ample possibilities for meaning and interpretation of the world.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
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CIARÁN
I went to all the Irish primary and secondary schools in the city.
Being dyslexic brought learning challenges, which led me to attend night school from one school to another for most of my academic youth. It was in these extra classes that I began to express myself artistically; while waiting in the hallway, I would draw on the school's blackboards to release my frustration at having to take extra classes.