The German painter Karl Horst Hodicke is one of the figures who put the expressionist into neo-expressionism in the late 1970s and early 1980s with his big, moody, splashy canvases. Born in Nuremberg in 1938, Hodicke had worked with objects and experimental films by the time he achieved international notice with his painted reinterpretations of mythological themes. From the early 1980s, he was visiting the west of Ireland and using it too as a subject for his work. Never shown here before, a touring exhibition of his West of Ireland Paintings: 1981-1996 is coming to the RHA Gallagher Gallery from Wednesday.
