exhibitions

Conrad Shawcross

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There is what looks like an interesting exhibition of sculpture at Lismore castle arts. It includes work by Conrad Shawcross who's work is pictured above.

A LIFE OF THEIR OWN

An exhibition curated by Richard Cork

Featuring the work of artists Roger Hiorns, Eva Rothschild, Matt Calderwood, Kate Atkin, Conrad Shawcross, Kate Terry, Daniel Silver, Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer

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Michael Asher Installation

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Here's another post about something I've seen on the NY Times website. There's a review of an installation by Michael Asher which reminds me of an idea I had for an exhibition which I discarded. I was thinking about mapping all of the artworks previously exhibited in a gallery. I was thinking of it as a drawing project with the outlines of the works being traced on the walls and floor. I decided the idea was a bit too self referential; a case of "art about art."

 "Mr. Asher has reconstituted all the temporary walls built for the 44 exhibitions that the museum has mounted since they moved there in 1998. Not the whole walls, just their skeletons  the shimmery aluminum studs, paralleling and intersecting one another in so many crazy ways you can barely see through them."

Asher's installation suceeds in going beyond "art about art" because it is engaging on a number of levels. As well as its conceptual basis it works on an aesthetic and spatial level. For regular visitors to the museum the installation will stimulate memories of previous exhibitions, encouraging them to try and recall which wall was constructed for which exhibition and recall there own personal experiences of the exhibitions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/08/arts/design/08ashe.html?ref=design

http://www.smmoa.org/index.php/exhibitions/details/191

Exhibition Round up - February

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There's quite a lot of good art on view in Dublin this month. Mark Francis has an excellent exhibition of paintings at the Hugh Lane.  Some of the works take diagramatic images of sound as their starting points. These are developed to take on a more organic quality.

Slavek Kwi has a sound installation at Broadcast the new gallery in DIT on Portland Row. The work uses recorded sounds of animals such as dolphins and cicadas but the artist is interested in the abstract possibilites of working with these sounds.

Denis Mc Nulty is another artist working with sound. His show Framework/Rupture at the Green on Red  consists of sound, sculpture, animation and photographic images. the show deals with "relationship between constructed space and the experience of time". He uses archive material, has created a raised platform using scaffolding, has made sculptural objects with sound elements, and sited a work outside the gallery on the roof of a building opposite. 

 Dennis McNulty, Installation image of flow/loop, DVD 1.5 second loop

The Kevin Kavanagh has a group exhibition that is a bit out of character for the gallery but is a similar approach to 2005's  "was du brauchst" which also included Ulrich Vogl. Most of the work is is not particularly sellable. It features work by  Karin Brunnermeier, Graham Hudson, Gereon Krebber, Eamon O'Kane and Ulrich Vogl.  Its not a great show but the piece by Graham Hudson is kind of interesting (pictured below). There are also interesting sculptures by Gereon Krebber illustrated in a catalogue though the work he has in this show isn't great.

Kerlin Gallery have a really good show on at the moment called PHOENIX PARK which is also a little of of character for them. Its an exhibition of work by six young artists from or living in Ireland. They are Aoife Collins, Vera Klute, Eoin McHugh, Clive Murphy, Seamus Nolan, and Sonia Shiel. I'm guessing the title in an illusion to the fact that the artists work all involve some element of the natural and the artificial. I was particularly impressed by Eoin McHugh's work which I've  seen before but never liked it that much until now. For this show he has covered one end of the gallery with wallpaper printed with various drawings as well as showing a number of works on paper. Clive Murphy showed a piece of found audio tape which delineated a simple drawing of a landscape on the wall and passed through a modified tape player integrated into a plynth which played the music into the gallery. The show had a vibrant feel and it is good to see the Kerlin working with some young artists.

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Eoin Mc Hugh, 2007, Romantic Science pt. 1, mixed media on paper, 35 x 56 cm

Seamus Nolan is also showing at the Lab. The show features a cardboard caravan as its centrepiece (he's got a police van made of bales of crushed boxes at the Kerlin). My work is on show at the same time in the exhibition space upstairs (more on that below).

Exhibition Reminder

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Solo Exhibition at the Lab 

Preview: 15 Feb 6-8pm Exhibition continues until 22nd March

"An exhibition of new sculpture and drawing by Niall de Buitléar opens on the 15th February at the Lab.

Niall de Buitléar presents a body of work produced during and shortly after his year long residency at Flax Art Studios in Belfast. The sculptures are made from found materials largely collected from the streets of Belfast and Dublin. The works tend to be built up from an accumulation of smaller parts which come together to form a more complex whole in a similar way to how an organism is made up of cells. The drawings and sculptures are directly linked. Both employ similar processes of accumulation to achieve a sense of organic growth over time. The works are begun with a general sense of form but over the course of their production tend to deviate from what was initially expected. The work is essentially abstract but the forms are consciously suggestive of various structures such as cells, fungi, landscapes, and standing figures.

This is the artist’s first solo exhibition. It was awarded to him as a part of the Launch Awards Program in 2006."

First Solo Show at the Lab

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Niall de Buitléar - Solo Exhibition at The Lab, Foley Street, Dublin 1  

Preview: 15 Feb 6-8pm Exhibition continues until 22nd March

 

An exhibition of new sculpture and drawing opens on the 15th February at the Lab. 

"Niall’s methodological approach, a forging of symbiotic relationships and resonance between the initial building blocks, the processes of manipulation and the resultant forms, appears to be shifting focus. With recent works such as White Cube (woven cable ties) and Untitled (burnt matchsticks), Niall appears to have prioritised a commitment to a primarily sculptural practice. The sculptural processes have in turn led him to a new approach to drawing involving the accumulation of simple building blocks...The shift in emphasis away from the rigidly conceptual practice, away from a strict set of rules in the earlier work to a more flexible, fluid approach, sign posts a new trajectory in his practice. What remains central is the use of found materials, which means in even the most abstract of his sculptural work there is some recognisable element. In this the work can be seen to embody a coexistence of the abstract and the figurative that enable his new articulations to remain tangibly rooted in the world of the everyday. "

- extract from an essay by Peter Richards which accompanies the exhibition.

Exhibition Roundup - January

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This is the first of what will be a monthly feature of the blog where I will write a little bit about a selection of exhibitions I have seen.

The Green On Red  is currently showing an exhibition of Patrick Hall's work. Most of this work was seen at his recently closed exhibition at IMMA but here there is an opportunity to see a much smaller selection of that work given a lot more space than it was at IMMA. There are also a number of new and older works that were not included in the  IMMA show on view here. The show consists of works on paper and a large painting, In the Vicinity of the Yellow Mountain (pictured below) which reminded me of Wolfgang Laib's work.

Patrick Hall , In the Vicinity of the Yellow Mountain (2007) , oil on canvas 152 x 157cm

Project Arts Centre until 26th Jan. There is an interesting video based on a magician called the Human Card Index - Arthur Lloyd, who could produce almost any kind of printed item from one of his pockets on request, conjures images into the air telling a story. The video is a witty play with images, their meanings, and connections between them. The rest of the exhibition is unrewarding and consists of a publication some dull minimal, sculptural constructions, and a film that pretentiously projects only at random. I was in the gallery for about twenty minutes and it didn't play during that time. I suppose this piece is intended to challenge the viewer's assumption that they will actually get to see the artwork when they go to an exhibition - hmmm.

Auélien Froment, still from Théatre de Poche

Coline Darke's exhibition  "The Capital Paintings"  is an installation  of 480 A4 size canvases. These paintings are the result of four years work. The Capital Paintings evolved from an earlier project by Darke (titled Capital) where he transcribed by hand the entire three volumes of Karl Marx’s ‘Das Capital’ onto 480 two dimensional objects.  He claims these objects to have been chosen at random but I do not believe this is the case. It would be impossible for an artist to make entirely random decision when he already has in mind such a predetermined overriding concept. The objects themselves would suggest some of them were chosen for their realtionship to the subject matter of Marx's text eg a picture of Scrooge Mc Duck, a drawing of the statue of liberty in front of an american flag, a bank note, and one of the artist's bank statements. Each of the capital paintings painstackingly represents each of the objects from "Capital" minus the handwritten text. My main experience of the work was one of partially experiencing the previous artwork "Capital" by proxy.   

During the production of "Capital" Darke became interested in Marx’s “division of commodity and production into two ‘departments’ – production of the means of production and production of the means of consumption”. From this it became clear to him that his own project effectively combined the two, the result appearing as an amalgam of traditional art production and Duchampian readymade. (text in italics quoted from the press release).

 

Colin Darke, Capital Painting

Launch is an exhibition of work by recent graduates from each of the art colleges in Dublin which I participated in last year. This year Launch has been curated by Sheena Barrett and Lee Welch. The exhibition is very different from last year's which featured nine artists and was intentionally chaotic. This year's show is much less cluttered and features three artists. Seamus Donovan shows drawings and animation. Tracy Hannah intervenes physically into the artificial space of existing films in two video works and Kevin Cosgrove presents a series of small figurative paintings.

The exhibition is acompanied by Projector, a selection recent graduate video work curated by Mark Garry.  Projector suffers from presenting too many video works some of which are far too long. The video that was showing when I went consisted of a single static shot showing the artist carrying out a simple action. The label on the wall informed me this would take 20 minutes - I didn't stay. This, for me, opitimised bad video art. The work shows a lack of understanding of the medium and the experience of the audience. The work has been conceptualised by the artist and has been video used as an objective recording tool not an art medium. If video artists look to cinema and engage with the potential of the medium as well as its conceptual conent they will create more engaging work worthy of the audience's continued attention. The exhibition runs until Jan 20th.

Nick Miller, To Sligo, Chinese & Indian Ink on Paper, 200 x 240 cm, 2007 

At the Rubicon Nick Miller is showing landscape drawings made from his mobile studio in the back of a truck.  Most of the drawings show Sligo's distinctive Benbulben mountain. The drawings are heavily worked and there is almost no white paper visible. The accompanying text tells us that Miller uses a drill with a sanding tool when he needs to erase details. The text also comares the drawing with William Kentridge which came to my mind as well as Doublnald Teskey who also shows with the Rubicon.

The Hugh Lane is currently showing animated work by Julian Opie on O'Connell Street. This follows a show of Barry Flanagan's work. I wonder if they are trying to do something like the Fourth Plinth project. Here is a video of a previous installation of similar work video removed from youtube.

An Exhibition in Five Chapters

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In the small library of the Info Lab in the CAC DeBuitlear presents The Found Bookmark Collection Vilnius. The piece consists of objects left between the pages of books in libraries in Vilnius. He visited libraries throughout the city collecting several hundred objects including receipts, 40-year-old envelopes, hair-pins and a love letter addressed to “my dear cabbage”. On view in the CAC is a selection from this collection, each item containing its own personal story.

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The BiG Store At Temple Bar Gallery & Studios

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My Work will be featured in The BiG Store At Temple Bar Gallery & StudiosPreview: Thursday 13th December 2007, 6-10pmExhibition continues until 22 December 2007

 This Christmas, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios will be temporarily transformed into The BiG Store, a department store specialising in contemporary art. With prices ranging from €5 to €5,000, this is a perfect opportunity for budding and established art collectors alike to access the best new contemporary art by a wide variety of emerging and established artists.

In stock will include works by: Lars Arrhenius, Robert Armstrong, Aideen Barry, Frederica Bastide Duarte, Mark Beatty, Stephen Brandes, Louise Butler, Oisin Byrne, Nina Canell & Robin Watkins, Declan Clarke, Patricia Chan, Michelle Considine, Hugh Cooney, Diana Copperwhite, Simon Cunningham, Niall de Buitlear, Nuisance Bears, Vanessa Donoso Lopez, Fiona Dowling, Elena Duff, Clodagh Emoe, Neva Elliott, Adam Fearon, Frank Fischer, Brendan Flaherty, Niall Flaherty, Damien Flood, Mark Garry, Benjamin Gaulon, Richard Gilligan, Susan Gogan, Cliona Harmey, Karl Grimes, Gottfried Helnwein, Clare Henderson, Anne Hendrick, Cassie Howard, Hope Inherant, Sam Irons, Andrew James Jones, Anne Kelly, Tara Kennedy, Krištof Kintera, James Kirwin, Nevan Lahart, Gillian Lawler, Tim Lloyd, Hazel Lim, Justin Larkin, Sarah Lincoln, Stephen Loughman, Hugh Mc Carthy, Paul Mc Devitt, Eilis Mc Donald, Ruth Mc Hugh, , Niamh Mc Cann, Paul Mc Cann, Carly Mc Nulty, Dennis McNulty, Tadgh Mc Sweeney, Colm Mac Athaoich, Harrison Matthew, Jonathan Mayhew , Kieran Moore, Ida Mitrani, Kohei Nakata, Barbara Nealon, Fergus Niland, Seamus Nolan, Sarah O’Brien, Eoin O’Connor, Beth O’Halloran, Magnhild Opdoel, Linda Quinlan, Paul Regan, Bennie Reilly, Sheila Rennick, Daisy Richardson, Risa Sato, Clare Shannahan, Sonia Shiel, Bob & Roberta Smith, Philippa Sutherland, Lee Welch, Roman Wolgin, Sarah Woods, The Tender Trio - Brian Coldrick; Stephen Kelleher; Christian Reeves, Nina Tanis, Ronan Tuite, Orla Whelan, Conor Wickham.

Posted 3 - Art Trail Cork

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My poster (middle) as a part for Skart's Posted 3 project for Art tTrail, Cork.  The posters are also going to be on display in Berlin at a venue called Zaa.

An Exhibition in 5 Chapters / Flax Residency Article

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I'm off to Vilnius on Monday to create an installation continuing my project "The Found Bookmark Archive". I'll be collecting objects from Library books around the city which will then be on show in the Contemporary Art Centre.

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I've also just finished a year long residency at Flax Art Studios in Belfast. I've written an article about my time there which was published in the Visual Artist's Newsheet and which I have attached. I have moved back to Dublin and will be looking for studio here shortly.

Flax Art Article: word document

One Way or Another - Queen Street Studios

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One Way or Another is a two person exhibition by Niall de Buitlear and Leo Devlin at Queen Street Studios. The work was created while the artists were participants on the year long graduate residency at Flax Art Studios. The title of the show alludes to both artists' willingness to follow lines of enquiry across media boundaries. The show will feature photographs, performance residue, sculpture and works on paper.

Opening 6-9pm Thursday 13th September

Exhibition runs until 11th October 

@ Queen Street Studios, Belfast

Brian Fay at The Lab

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I saw Brian Fay 's exhibition 'Some time now' at the Lab. It's over soon but might still be up. Its an exhibition mostly of digital drawings of the cracks in paintings. Here is an image of one of his drawings I found on the internet.

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(art)TOURist

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(art)TOURist  is an event involving open studios at Flax Art and other artists' studio in Belfast.

(art)TOURbus is on Saturday 12th May 2007 (art)TOURist office 5th-12th May in the Cathederal Quarter

Take a free tour of the art studios and organisations of Belfast. Contact Jude Bennett at Queen Street Studios for more details:

Queen Street Studios|Belfast|BT1 6EA t: 02890 243145 or e: info@queenstreetstudios.net

http://www.arttouristbelfast.com