This exhibition explores the idea of beauty, alongside the archetype of the fool as jester and truth teller.

Working between Chioggia, a coastal town south of Venice and on the foothills of Slievenamon, Co. Tipperary, Eugene de Leastar has compiled a series of portraits and nudes, together with sculptures in bronze and terracotta.

In an accompanying story, 'Beauty and The Fool', the artist relates his works to Dostoevsky's novel 'The Idiot', where the hero, on the edge of madness, briefly perceives the true nature of reality.

artist bio

Eugene de Leastar Eugene (Eoin) (Eugenio) was born in Cork and now lives and has a studio on Slievenamon in Co. Tipperary. His solo shows include Tipperary Museum of Hidden History, The Signal Art Centre, Dublin, The Narrow Space, Clonmel, Origin Gallery, Dublin, ALCI, Loro Piceno Italy, Wexford Arts Centre, Art Hive Cork, Turks & Caicos, Garter Lane, Waterford, Univeristy College Cork and The Narrow Space, Clonmel. He has participated in group shows in Bled, Slovinia, Triofiach, Austria, Peoria, Illinois, USA, Collyer-Bristow, London, Irish Arts Centre, London and Ward Nasse, New York.