Every… Bernd and Hilla Becher Gable Sided Houses, 2004 and Every… Bernd and Hilla Becher Spherical Type Gasholders, 2004 © Idris Khan
Idris Khan is an artist who makes images by layering multiple photograpghs. Here he is using photos by the Bechers. He will be participating in PROJECT bodycity in Dublin's Docklands.
I will be travelling to Berlin in a few weeks to take up a 5 week residency at Ard Bia Berlin. I have also been invited to participate in a group show at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery in Cork this summer.
My show at the Red Stables opened last night with an "in conversation" type discussion with Alan Phelan. The show runs until Sunday and I'll be out at the gallery at lunch time on Sunday when the Visit Studios bus arrives. Then I'll be rushing back into town to be in my studio (at Pallas Studios on Foley Street) for the remainder of Visit.
Selected work from my first solo show at the Lab will be touring to the Red Stables in Raheny for a week. I'll also be including some pieces of work that were not in the Lab show.
To launch the show I will be discussing my work with Alan Phelan at the Red Stables at half 6 on Monday 14th March - all are welcome to attend.
The exhibition coincides with Visit Open Studios weekend. The Red Stables is one of the venues participating in Visit on Sunday 20th April. There will be a wine reception at the gallery at lunchtime on the Sunday during Visit.
My studio at Pallas Studios on Foley Street (up the road from the Lab) will also be open to the public on Sunday 20th April.
I decided today to shut down p-art-icles.com a website I set up in 2005 to show the work by young Irish artists. If anyone wants to take over the website they can contact me about it here.
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
Patrick Dougherty will create a site-specific sculpture over a three-week residency period (May 25-June 15) at Sculpture in the Parklands at Lough Boora Parklands in Offaly. There's an article about it in the Visual Artists Newsheet.
The Guardian have a video about changes at Dashanzi the centre for contemporary art in Beijing. Former factory buildings had been occupied by small galleries but the area is being redeveloped due to the commercial success of Chinese art. This commercial development may have a negative affect on the local scene that enabled the success of the work in the first place. http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/video/2008/mar/14/dashanzi
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
Guillermo Kuitca Untitled (Opernhaus Zürich) 2001 mixed media, digital print on paper 27.8 x 21.7 cm / 11 x 8 1/2 inch
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
My first published review is in the Spring issue of Circa magazine which has just come out. It's a review of Surface Tension a three person show which is part of the Arts Council's Touring Experiment.
Full contents of the magazine here
There is an article in the NY Times about developers using artists to regenerate the Dumbo area of Brooklyn. This is not a new idea but the scale its happening on here is. Some artists are paying rent in paintings others not at all. "Some 1,000 artists and arts organizations are now working in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, courtesy of the developers David Walentas and his son, Jed, partners in Two Trees Management. Operating on the principle that cultural ferment makes a neighborhood hot, Two Trees has offered creative people rents that they cannot refuse,"
I was looking at Anish Kapoor images on Google images and this picture caught my eye.
It turns out this piece was accidentally thrown in a skip - that would have been some find.
A documentary on youtube about Seamus Nolan's Hotel Ballymun project
Jae Ko, Untitled Cream (JK504 and JK 515), 2006. Rolled paper and glue, http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag07/Sept_07/ko/ko.shtml
