THE HILTON BROTHERS CHRISTOPHER MAKOS & PAUL SOLBERG

October 17th - Extended to November 21st, 2008

The Sebastian Guinness Gallery is pleased to announce the first show in Ireland of the Hilton Brothers (Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg) .

Makos and Solberg, both New Yorkers, became friends as they travelled together outside their city. As well as sharing a love of photography, they shared a sense of humour and lightness within the confines of structured social situations: acting outside of convention, wearing matching outfits of clothing that were totally at odds with the occasion, breaking into song at the tables of fashionable restaurants. This was not performance, in that they were not acting to an audience. Nor were they creating exotic personae to photograph. Rather, their private sense of the absurd and the random giddiness of their shared experiences were granted public display.

The Hilton Brothers’ show at Sebastian Guinness Gallery brings together two bodies of work: the ‘ANDYDANDY’ and ‘Hippofolium’ portfolios. All are diptychs, to which each ‘brother’ brings his distinct contribution, creating a beautiful and intriguing dialogue between the two.