Richard Gorman

Shuffle

01 October 2009 - 28 November 2009

Millenium Court Arts Centre, Portadown

Highlanes Gallery and Millenium Court Arts Centre are delighted to announce a new exhibition of paintings by painter Richard Gorman. The exhibition entitled Shuffle opens at Highlanes Gallery in July and then at Millenium Court Arts Centre in October and travels to the Ashford Gallery at the Royal Hibernian Academy in March, 2010.

Gorman's understated gift as a colourist has become more evident in recent years. His work has drawn much of its power from the compositional tension between increasingly prominent and boldly simplified, irregular blocks of colour. Gorman has exhibited widely and regularly since the mid-1980s, especially in Dublin, London, Milan and Tokyo. Frequent and extended visits to Japan have notably influenced his working methods and materials, most memorably in a series of highly successful large-scale works executed on handmade washi paper which he produced in western Japan in 1999.

www.millenniumcourt.org

Shuffle Swing

Liam Gillick

The future always acts differently

07 June 2009 - 22 November 2009

German Pavilion
Biennale di Venezia 2009
53. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte

Nicolaus Schafhausen
Curator

Liam Gillick will be the artist presented at the German Pavilion during the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. The curator of the German Pavilion is Nicolaus Schafhausen, director of Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.

Liam Gillick lives and works in New York and London. The artist, who has produced much of his work in Germany, was early to address emergent post-socialist systems and new social models in Europe. His practice represents the ideal projection surface for contemporary art in the twenty-first century. His work operates on several levels of a multi-layered artworld. The theme of his work is the varied phenomena of social utopias that he stages via hypothetical social models, both visual and literary.

Nicolaus Schafhausen: "Through his need to play with the complexity of the contemporary terrain, Gillick has provided models of thought that are not merely binary. He has operated in parallel to known models of work - critic, designer and artist. And this has permitted him to provoke new questions without the necessity to offer simple solutions."

Liam Gillick: "My work requires a critical terrain that is both sophisticated and skeptical. I view this as a continuation of an ongoing dialogue. The question will be how to produce rather than merely how to present. I operate in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the modernist self-consciousness. The work is both contingent and specific."

Liam Gillick and Nicolaus Schafhausen have been involved in a continuous dialogue since the end of the 1980s. Before the Biennale, between November 2008 and May 2009, the artist and curator will collaborate on a number of events that will take place in Germany, Europe and the United States. This year Liam Gillick has had solo exhibitions in Rotterdam, Zurich and Munich and has forthcoming group exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and The Guggenheim Museum in New York. Next year he will have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. - The exhibition at the German Pavilion is commissioned by the German Foreign Ministry and will be realized together with the Institute of Foreign Affairs (ifa).
Duration of exhibition: 7th June until 22nd November 2009.
More information: www.wdw.nl/persfoto/gillick/index.htm
 

www.deutscher-pavillon.org/Biennale%20Venezia/eng-deutscher-pavillon.org%202.html

Installation View: How are you going to behave? A kitchen cat speaks

Installation View: How are you going to behave? A kitchen cat speaks

Installation View: How are you going to behave? A kitchen cat speaks

Liam Gillick

Three perspectives and a short scenario

10 October 2009 - 10 November 2009

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Liam Gillick emerged in the early 1990s as part of a re-energized British art scene, producing a sophisticated body of work ranging from his signature "platform" sculptures -- architectural structures made of aluminum and colored Plexiglas that facilitate or complicate social interaction -- to wall paintings, text sculptures, and published texts that reflect on the increasing gap between utopian idealism and the actualities of the world.

His work joins that of generational peers such as Rirkrit Tiravanija and Philippe Parreno in defining what critic Nicholas Bourriaud described as "relational aesthetics," an approach that emphasizes the shifting social role and function of art at the turn of the millennium. Gillick's work has had a profound impact on a contemporary understanding of how art and architecture influence, and are themselves influenced by, interpersonal communication and interactions in the public sphere.

This exhibition is presented in association with the Witte de With in Rotterdam, Kunsthalle Zurich, and the Kunstverein in Munich. It is the most significant and comprehensive exhibition of Gillick's work in an American museum to date, comprising a major site-specific installation in the gallery ceiling as well as a presentation of his design and published works, and a film documenting projects from the entirety of his career. The MCA is the only American venue for the exhibition.

The exhibition has a publication that reflects the unique nature of this survey of Gillick's work. This exhibition is curated by MCA Curator Dominic Molon.

www.mcachicago.org/

Grouped Decided

Jaki Irvine

Seven Folds in Time

24 September 2009 - 31 October 2009

Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

As part of Temple Bar Gallery's commitment to support and exhibit new work by leading Irish artists, we are delighted to present Jaki Irvine's Seven Folds in Time- a major new multi-screen video installation made specifically for Temple Bar Gallery in which the artist foregrounds the relationship between music and image which has long been a significant aspect of her practice.

Working with the musicians Marja Gaynor and Joe O'Farrell, Irvine has developed a work in which the editing process itself comes to the fore as an organising principal. Moving between overt musicality and the edges where a sound begins or ends, the artist focuses on the rigours and pleasures of playing an instrument that brings together the private space of practice with the possibilities of performance it anticipates.

This exhibition was made possible by project funding from Temple Bar Gallery and an Arts Council Artists Bursary.

www.templebargallery.com

Jaki Irvine

Paul Seawright

Conflicting Account

27 September 2009 - 28 October 2009

Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda

New Work by Paul Seawright

The opening will take the form of an in-conversation where Paul Seawright will discuss his work practice with Megan Johnston, Arts Director, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown.

www.highlanes.ie

Police

Barrie Cooke
Dorothy Cross
Paul Seawright

Then & Now: Evolving Art Practices

23 July 2009 - 25 October 2009

The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork

www.glucksman.org

Udder Chair

Kerlin Gallery at Frieze Art Fair

Booth E12

15 October 2009 - 18 October 2009

We are delighted to announce that Kerlin Gallery will exhibit at Frieze Art Fair 2009.

Booth E12
Regent's Park, London

Professional View and Private View - Wednesday 14 October.

Opening Hours:
Thursday 15 October 11 am - 7 pm
Friday 16 October 11am - 7 pm
Saturday 17 October 11 am - 7 pm
Sunday 18 October 11 am - 6 pm

Entrance off Park Square West
 

www.friezeartfair.com

britney #5

Willie Doherty

Three Potential Endings at Darklight X

08 October 2009 - 10 October 2009

Smithfield, Dublin

As part of the its 10th anniversary, Darklight will present Willie Doherty's Three Potential Endings.  

Smithfield Plaza. Daily 8 - 10 October

Dark light is also delighted to announce a very special event.

Willie Doherty in Conversation
Light House Cinema
Saturday 10 October. 3 pm

Willie Doherty discusses his film Three Potential Endings and his remarkable career to date. The interview will be bookended by screenings of two other notable Doherty works; Ghost Story (2007) and Buried (2009) created as with Three Potential Endings, in collaboration with renowned cinematographer Seamus McGarvey

Three Potential Endings was shot on location in Dublin during the summer of 2008.  The work presents a male figure besieged with the possibility of failure and uncertainty and was conceived as a response to the shifting architectural landscape of contemporary Dublin. It does not provide any explanation or rationale but rather places the man in direct confrontation with the architectural spaces where he finds himself. The three sequences are simultaneously fragmented and connected by a fourth sequence that shows the man pacing around a small, confined space. It is unclear whether he is lost in thought and deep in concentration or whether he is confused and oblivious to his surroundings. 

Three Potential Endings extends the artist's concerns with exploring the dynamics of specific urban spaces through the medium of video. Works, such as Re-Run, 2002, Non-Specific Threat, 2004, Closure, 2005 and Passage, 2006, are characterised by the use of the isolated human figure engaging in a simple but direct interaction with a given space. Like these works, Three Potential Endings also engages with conventional narrative structures as a means of locating the work within existing cinematic histories while expanding the possibilities for video installation within the gallery or non-gallery contexts.

Darklight is Ireland's foremost celebration of art, film and technology, a glorious three-day explosion of creative synergies: performances, screenings, workshops, seminars, symposiums, visual art happenings and much more. 2009 marks the 10th anniversary of Darklight: highlights include a public interview and workshop with legendary music video director Mark Romanek, graphic design legend Niall Sweeney's one-man show Revolver and a celebration of Oscar-nominated Irish animation company Brown Bag, plus collaborations with cutting-edge Irish companies thisisnotashop, Synth Eastwood, Nartystation and Performance Corporation, a discussion with Sweden's  Pirate Party, DIY movie spectacular Hotel Darklight, the Irish premiere of stunning Irish-lensed concert movie R.E.M. Live At The Olympia and the debut of Virtual Cinema 2.0, the Irish Film Board's latest round of cutting-edge on-line short films. Plus: the popular Straylight visual art strand, featuring a Performance Art Weekender curated by Amanda Coogan and Niamh Murphy.

www.darklight.ie

Three Potential Endings

David Godbold

Butler Gallery

08 August 2009 - 04 October 2009

Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny

The Butler Gallery is pleased to present The end of the beginning of the beginning of the end, an exhibition curated for the Kilkenny Arts Festival featuring one hundred and twenty works from 1999 to the present, by internationally acclaimed artist, David Godbold.  

Godbold is an artist of great accomplishment – skilful in both drawing and painting with a keen intelligence; he makes work that is irreverent and thought provoking yet ultimately beautiful. Using found drawings and texts of unknown authorship, Godbold’s layered drawings employ appropriated images with ease and flair as an underlying foundation on which to add his own renderings and texts. This graphic matchmaking produces some unforgettable results, all of which form bold and iconoclastic commentaries on the philosophical struggle with daily life.

www.butlergallery.com

100,000,000 angels singing

Every evening I plan to enjoy the sunrise, and each morning I fail to get up

Brian Maguire

The Quick and the Dead

29 May 2009 - 27 September 2009

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane

Brian Maguire, Patrick Graham, Patrick Hall, Timothy Hawkesworth

The Quick and The Dead brings together four of Ireland’s most respected contemporary painters who emerged in the 1980s. In this period of uncertainty Patrick Graham, Patrick Hall, Timothy Hawkesworth and Brian Maguire consolidated their position by a dedication to a revival of painting and the search for existential meaning through aesthetic experience. Using the fundamental tools of colour and form these artists addressed not only the religious, political and social spheres of 1980’s Ireland but also the universal condition of existing in the modern world.

In 1986 the artists featured in Four Irish Expressionist Painters, a collaborative exhibition between Northeastern University and Boston College in the United States. Over two decades later, an exhibition by same the four artists is presented at an equally uncertain time in Ireland. The Quick and The Dead brings together for the first time a selection of work from the last decades of the 20th century with work from the present. In this time of economic, social and political flux, the works in this exhibition encourage a reappraisal of issues that remain unresolved, reconnecting viewers to a rich and subversive history.

www.hughlane.ie

Nairobi - 28/01/07

Paul Seawright

Parrworld - The Collection of Martin Parr

30 June 2009 - 27 September 2009

Jeu De Paume, Paris
Curated by Thomas Weski.

Over the last thirty years, Parr has been documenting Western society, and in particular his fellow citizens of the United Kingdom. However, he is also interested in phenomena linked to globalisation such as mass tourism, consumerism and so-called leisure. His work is seen as a satirical look at contemporary life which unmasks the grotesque element behind banality.

As a member of the legendary Magnum agency, Parr is one of the most active and dynamic photographers at work today. Since the 1980s he has published some thirty books and shown his photographs in countless group and solo shows.

Produced in collaboration with the Haus der Kunst in Munich, the exhibition "Planète Parr” proposes a dialogue between the artist’s photographs (his latest series, "Luxury") and his vast collection of objects. It reveals the keenness of Parr’s vision and his fascination with the everyday, and features a mixture of the personal and the collective, with works by recognised artists alongside popular art.
This is the first exhibition to feature not only his extraordinary collection of photography books and prints by British and international photographers including Paul Seawright, but also large numbers of objects and curiosities closely reflecting political and social events (Saddam Hussein watches, Osama Bin Laden toilet paper and Margaret Thatcher teapots), or the absurdity and vacuity of our consumer society (the objects sought out and collected by Parr are dominated by the biggest packet of potato crisps ever sold).

Exhibition produced by Haus der Kunst, Munich, in collaboration with Jeu de Paume, Pari

www.jeudepaume.org

Friday 25th May 1973

Dorothy Cross

A Duck For Mr. Darwin

10 April 2009 - 20 September 2009

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

Evolutionary Thinking & The Struggle To Exist

Charles Avery, Marcus Coates, Dorothy Cross, Mark Dion, Andrew Dodds, Mark Fairnington, Ben Jeans Houghton, Tania Kovats, Conrad Shawcross

A Duck for Mr. Darwin is a group exhibition of contemporary artists exploring evolutionary thinking and the Theory of Natural Selection. The exhibition focuses on the legacy of Charles Darwin’s ideas and is informed by the spirit of experimentation which was so distinctive to the time in which he lived.

www.balticmill.com

forge

sapiens

Phillip Allen

Classified: Contemporary British Art from the Tate Collection

16 June 2009 - 29 August 2009

Tate Britain

www.tate.org.uk/britain/

Infinity Muse

Sean Shanahan

Newman House

05 August 2009 - 28 August 2009

Newman House, Saint Stephens Green, Dublin

At 85-86 Saint Stephens Green in Newman House this month an installation by Sean Shanahan rises through the stairwell from ground level to first floor and engages with the architecture of a Georgian building that contains rare samples of the finest 18th century plasterwork in Dublin.
 
The installation operates in a series of parallels, both direct and metaphorical, that opens up an opportunity for seeing the architecture and history anew in what for us has become otherwise familiar. A possibility opens for thinking about the relationship between history and actuality.
 
The interaction of the artwork with the space allows the viewer to imagine that it is not just us who perceive the world, but that the world too has its vision of us, and it can be discovered and set in motion by our departure from the established frameworks of history.
 
The history that accompanies the architecture of Newman House, attempts to achieve an environment that is suffused with high moral values reflecting an establishment of permanence and security. The ornate plasterwork of the staircase compounds this sense of permanence. Emphasizing the skin of the interior, it's very decorative nature, allows for an illicit aesthetic pleasure while it's defining space gives a safe boundary for reverie. The installation by Sean Shanahan attempts to highlight this, just as if a text where highlighted or underlined. The aim is to create dialogue rather than contrast – an indication of the continuity between the past and the present, between then and now.
 
Shanahan’s work captures the essence of a painted form: support and gesture, foreground and background, light and colour and the spatial power of colour to morph the apprehension of space. The modular nature of the design gives both an overall view of a decorative surface and a perplexing perspective within each singular repeated form, inviting us to reflect upon the relationship of the singular/individual to the ensemble/whole. Shanahan's installation is neither a painting nor a sculpture, but an open space inviting reflection.

Sean Shanahan

Mark Garry

This is about you

22 May 2009 - 16 August 2009

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

mima has invited artist Mark Garry to create a new work for project space 1.

His site-specific installations are skilfully rendered using a range of materials including thread, beads and pins. As such each work is unique, a personal response to the individual character of the exhibition spaces. The visual impact of Garry’s installations is created through their gravity defying arrangement and spectrum of colour.

www.visitmima.com

Installation View, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane

Willie Doherty

Requisite Distance

23 May 2009 - 16 August 2009

Dallas Museum of Art

On May 24, the Dallas Museum of Art will premiere Willie Doherty: Requisite Distance, an exhibition of works by one of the most important artists to emerge from Northern Ireland in the past three decades, and a two-time nominee for the Tate’s Turner Prize. The exhibition, described by the New York Times as “one of those little gems of a show, . . . an original curatorial effort presenting a body of new work by a major artist,” brings together for the first time Doherty’s Ghost Story—a tensely beautiful fifteen-minute media work based on landscape and memory, recently acquired for the DMA’s collections—and a selection of eleven powerful photographs of the Irish and Northern Irish landscape from the 1990s.

“Willie Doherty’s art joins history, memory, and language into an enveloping experience for the viewer, one that is rich in beauty and apprehension in the same measure,” says Charles Wylie, The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art and the exhibition’s curator. “This is only the second exhibition on Doherty’s work to be organized by an American institution, and we are extremely honored to be able to bring this important work to our audiences.”

Willie Doherty’s interest in the Irish ghost story, as well as being born and raised in Northern Ireland during the time of the Troubles, informs the background for his video installation in this exhibition. Ghost Story powerfully evokes a mind at work trying to recall unsettling things, and the impact troubling memories have on the present day. Through a mesmerizing series of vivid imagery—including a lonely forest path with an ever-receding vanishing point, a darkened city underpass with a mysterious figure, and a pair of eyes perhaps looking to the past or the future—Doherty has created a masterful cinematic tale of quiet suspense whose evocative text (written by Doherty himself) is narrated by the renowned Irish actor Stephen Rea. Ghost Story was critically acclaimed when it appeared at the 2007 Venice Biennale, where Doherty represented Northern Ireland, and the Dallas Museum of Art is the only American museum to have acquired it for its collection.

Ghost Story is paired with eleven large-scale color photographs from the 1990s that depict the famed Irish landscape as a site of barriers and roadblocks set amidst lyrical beauty. Created well before Ghost Story, Doherty’s photographs from the 1990s act as precursors and complements to the video work and provide further evidence of the sense of quiet unease unique to his art. Together, these works offer a compelling comparison between how our vision and thought process still and moving images, and will provide an intensely absorbing experience of an undeniably beautiful yet still little understood landscape.

Willie Doherty: Requisite Distance is accompanied by a 96-page, full-color catalogue published and distributed through Yale University Press.

www.dallasmuseumofart.org/Dallas_Museum_of_Art/View/Future_Exhibitions/ID_249015

Ghost Story

Tony Swain

Art Now

02 May 2009 - 26 July 2009

Tate Britain, London

Art Now will present a series of works by Tony Swain.

A sheet or pasted together page of newsprint gives Tony Swain both the physical base and conceptual starting point for his evocative and dreamlike paintings. The imagery is built up by painting over the collaged newspaper in layers, obliterating most of the original text and photography. The fragments that are allowed to remain are transformed by their inclusion in his imagined landscapes and abstracts. Swain has created new work for the Art Now space. He lives and works in Glasgow.

www.tate.org.uk/britain/

Untitled

David Godbold

The Process Room

29 June 2009 - 12 July 2009

The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

David Godbold will present and exhibition of work in the Process Room.  It facilitates the display of work in progress by artists currently working on the Artists’ Residency Programme. The purpose of the Process Room is to reveal the processes involved in the creation, exhibition and consideration of contemporary art, which are often hidden from public view. The Process Room aims to display a flavour of what is ongoing in the studio environment and each artist on the work programme will exhibit their work for a two-week period during their residency.

www.imma.ie

A change of plan

Willie Doherty

The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

25 April 2009 - 12 July 2009

The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

A major exhibition of films and photographs by Willie Doherty, one of the most significant artists of our times. Rooted in the political and urban landscape of his native Northern Ireland, Doherty’s work expands out of this context to address universal themes of individual and collective subjectivity and responsibility, creating a new framework within which to think about who we are and how we live.

www.fruitmarket.co.uk

The Visitor

Dorothy Cross

In Search of Utopia

23 May 2009 - 06 June 2009

Galway Arts Centre

Galway Arts Centre  presents ‘In Search of Utopia’, a group exhibition featuring Dorothy Cross, Ailbhe Ni Bhriain, Louise Manifold, Michelle Browne, Cao fei and dennis del Favero, in the Nun’s Island Space of Galway Arts Centre from May 23rd to June 6th 2009. The exhibition will open at 2pm on Saturday 23rd May 2009, in Nun’s Island Theatre, 23 Nuns island, Galway. The exhibition takes as its starting point  the visually rich image of the teams, all from different countries – hurtling across oceans, rely only on themselves to compete against each other to reach the final destination. It can be seen as a metaphor for how we are constantly searching for something better, always moving towards what we see as a preferable situation to what we are currently in.

The exhibition includes two video works by  Dorothy Cross: ‘Ossicle’, recently exhibited in the UK as part of the Darwin bicentenary celebrations and ‘Selam’ which is a video portrait of Selam Kerasimbe: a shark-caller  from a village on the west coast of New Ireland in the South Pacific. He sings a song that he has only ever before sung alone out at sea in his canoe after catching a shark.  The film is a sensitive look at the dying out of  this tradition of  shark-calling. Ossicle shows a whale vertebra lying on a concrete floor is rocked by the touch of a hand: instead of slowly stopping the vibrations increase to infinity.

www.galwayartscentre.ie

Selam shark-caller

Phil Collins

Tramway

17 April 2009 - 31 May 2009

Tramway, Glasgow

Tramway will present the first solo exhibition in Scotland by internationally renowned British artist Phil Collins. Relating to performance-based and conceptual approaches to video and photography, Collins explores the nuances of social relations in various locations and global communities. He often works in regions of social and political unrest, and employs elements of popular culture, low-budget television and reportage-style documentary to address the camera as an instrument of both truth and deception.

www.tramway.org

the world won't listen

Paul Seawright

Conflicting Account

26 March 2009 - 30 May 2009

Millennium Court Arts Centre

MCAC is pleased to present newly commissioned work by internationally acclaimed artist Paul Seawright. Known best for his alternative visual analysis of locations and subjects dominated by mainstream media, Seawright examines in a series of new photographic works, the disparate and often conflicting narratives of Northern Irish history.
Working in school classrooms and political institutions representing both traditions, he has recovered visual fragments, which function as metaphors for the layering of narrative, the writing and re-writing of history, and the conflicting rhetoric of two traditions. Like much of Seawright’s early work from Northern Ireland ‘Conflicting Accounts’ adopts a quasi-forensic method of image making. 

In much of Seawright’s work the wider narratives of political situations are visually obscured, resonating instead through fragments and objects retrieved by the camera. In these new works everyday items, blackboards, curtains, footpaths, bridges and roads continue to form a vocabulary of separateness and contradiction.

www.millenniumcourt.org

East

Mark Garry

Frequency

26 February 2009 - 17 May 2009

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane

Anachronistic in a secular society where almost every object has a defined function and end use, the works of artists Mark Garry, Pádraig Timoney and Hayley Tompkins expose and explore possibilities of contingency and transformation. 

The over saturation of information we receive in our hypermodern, post-global era continues to expand and accelerate. As witnessed in the fashions of the entertainment industry, the ever widening and rationalising sphere of technology results in the solidification and stagnation of our avenues of perception.

Frequency raises questions of ethics and value that emerges in the work of these artists and their relationship to aesthetics. It encourages a reappraisal of the established views of reality and provide us with points of departure for alternative frameworks with which we may rethink our perceived knowledge of the world.

Mark Garry’s work stems from a fundamental interest in observing how humans navigate the world and the subjectivity inherent in these navigations.

www.hughlane.ie

Element 1 & 2 'Being Here'

Elizabeth Magill

The Russian Club

25 March 2009 - 07 May 2009

The Russian Club, London

www.therussianclubgallery.com

Venus

Willie Doherty
Elizabeth Magill

Artists Conversation

07 May 2009 - 07 May 2009

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane

THURSDAY 7th MAY @ 4.30pm

Willie Doherty and Elizabeth Magill have been invited to join the Gallery’s Director Barbara Dawson to discuss the gallery’s centenary print collection. The print collection was a unique collaboration between the gallery and 13 contemporary artists in support of the Gallery’s purchasing fund. Each artist will discuss their approach to this commission and how it fits with their practice.
 

www.hughlane.ie

Elizabeth Magill, Parlous Land (Thornbird Day)

Sean Scully

CONSTANTINOPLE OR THE SENSUAL CONCEALED

19 February 2009 - 03 May 2009

Museum Kueppersmuehle, Duisburg

The imagery of Sean Scully: MKM Museum Küppersmühle of Modern Art, Duisberg present a retrospective of the work of Sean Scully from 1974 until present day curatorated by Susanne Kleine, Bonn

www.museum-kueppersmuehle.de/index.php?id=89&L=1

Small Chelsea Wall

Barrie Cooke

Butler Gallery

14 March 2009 - 26 April 2009

Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny

In sixty years of painting Barrie Cooke has made over twenty-five portraits of poets, writers and artists, all of whom are his friends. They make an illustrious gathering of cultural icons and include poets Seamus Heaney, John Montague, Ted Hughes, Núala Ní Dhómhnaill and Leland Bardwell; writers, John McGahern and Dermot Healy; artists, Dorothy Cross, Camille Souter and Nick Miller. These portraits have never before been exhibited together.

Cooke approaches the portrait as if it were a landscape – a bog to penetrate, a river to dive into.  He embraces the rigour demanded of painting portraits, a tradition he has favoured throughout his career, averaging about two a year.  All his portraits are from life.  The time spent working on a portrait can differ greatly and can take anything from two to twenty sittings, as was the case with the exceptional painting of John McGahern.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a full-colour catalogue.

www.butlergallery.com

Seamus Heaney, Nobel Laureate Poet

Phil Collins

zasto ne govorim srpski [na srpskom]

06 March 2009 - 24 April 2009

National College of Art and Design/Gallery, Dublin

An Bord presents the inaugural exhibition of National College of Art and Design Gallery.

Phil Collins is one of the most important artists of his generation. He studied in Belfast, is now based in Glasgow and Berlin and has a growing international reputation. He often works in socially and politically contested regions, employing elements of popular culture, low budget television and reportage style documentary, to articulate a critical fascination with the ways in which contemporary media structure lived experience.  Recent projects include ‘The World Won’t Listen’ (2004 – 2007) – a Karaoke Video Trilogy produced in Colombia, Turkey and Indonesia with fans of the band The Smiths,  ‘The Return of the Real’ (2007) – a talk show confessional with former participants of reality t.v. in the U.K. Collins has shown work in major museums and key group exhibitions in the U.K., Europe and the U.S.

Shot in black and white 16 mm film, Phil Collins’ zašto ne govorim srpski (na srpskom)’ (2008)  weaves unbearably intimate close-ups into a fragmented and effective panorama of Kosovo’s recent past. Contributors include politicians, intellectuals and public figures as well as ‘ordinary’ people recounting in Serbian the reasons why they no longer speak the Serbian language. They range from attempts to historicize experience to deeply personal accounts of trauma and loss. This work can be seen as the artist revisiting central concerns of his practice and about Kosovo in particular as the country works to establish its nascent status as an independent state after internecine conflict.

www.ncad.ie

zasto ne govorim srpski (na srpskom)

Kathy Prendergast

Desenhos [Drawings]: A-Z

06 February 2009 - 29 March 2009

Museu da Cidade, Lisbon

Minnesota Road Atlas XVI

Isabel Nolan

Reach Out and Touch Faith

05 March 2009 - 28 March 2009

Gallery for one

Isabel Nolan and Mick Wilson

Two person exhibiton, the first in a series entitled 'Be not solitary, be not idle', curated by Vaari Claffey.

www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133627570439

Imaginary object

Paul Seawright

Solstice Gallery

19 February 2009 - 28 March 2009

Solstice Arts Centre, Navan

Paul Seawright is a photographer who has drawn heavily on his Northern Irish background to produce searching photographic investigations of aspects of its fraught political terrain. In his recent work Seawright has moved away from an overtly Irish context, focusing on what he has termed a ‘generic malevolent landscape’ represented by the uninhabited spaces at the edge of cities and forests throughout Europe. Awards include the prestigious Ville de Paris

www.solsticeartscentre.com

Valley

Brian Maguire

isolated

30 January 2009 - 05 March 2009

Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast

The Golden Thread Gallery presents 'isolated', an exhibition curated by Peter Richards and featuring artists Gemma Anderson, Guy Ben-Nur, Cecily Brennan, Lisa Byrne, Ciara Finnegan, Phil Hession, Anna Konik and Brian Maguire

www.gtgallery.org.uk

In Police Custody Brooklyn

Liam Gillick

Getting Even

14 November 2008 - 01 March 2009

Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork

Curated by Matt Packer and René Zechlin

Using performance, sculpture, film, photography and other art forms, the artists in this exhibition explore oppositions and dialogues that range global socio-political and cultural issues to domestic and environmental matters.

www.glucksman.org

Literally Based on H.Z.

Mark Francis
David Godbold
Eoin Mc Hugh
Isabel Nolan
Kathy Prendergast

Into Irish Drawing

15 January 2009 - 27 February 2009

Limerick City Gallery of Art

Limerick City Gallery of Art will be the first venue to host this exhibiton of drawing from some of Ireland leading artists.

www.limerickcity.ie/lcga

David Godbold, Spectacles, stupid!

Isabel Nolan, Rug for a poet's bedroom floor # 1

Sean Scully

Made in Munich

21 November 2008 - 22 February 2009

Hausderkunst, Munich

From the middle of the 19th century to the end of the 1920s, Munich was considered to be a platform for avant-garde art.
Since the beginning of the 1970s Munich, next to New York and London, takes the lead in producing special editions and prints.
The exhibition 'made in munich' shows works produced by Munich galleries and distributed from the 1960s to today – rare works by International and German artists, created for galleries such as Heiner Friedrich, Sabine Knust, Fred Jahn, Schellmann & Klüser a.o. or for publishers Maximilian and Schellmann. for example, works by Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Dan Flavin, Richard Hamilton, Blinky Palermo, Gerhard Richter, Fred Sandback and Sean Scully will be presented

www.hausderkunst.de

Blue Fold

Isabel Nolan

Coalesce: Happenstance

10 January 2009 - 22 February 2009

SMART Project Space, Amsterdam

‘Coalesce’ is the title of an evolutionary exhibition project, initiated by curator Paul O’Neill in 2003. ‘Coalesce: Happenstance’ is the final version of the project and is the culmination of a six year research into exhibition-making as a form of artistic practice where the accumulation of actors and actions co-produce a single co-habited exhibition form. O'Neill has invited a vibrant selection of artists to take part as co-producers to develop new work in response to each other, to the overall exhibition structure and to its concept.

www.smartprojectspace.net

Sometimes I imagine my love has died

Sometimes I imagine my love has died

Dorothy Cross, Willie Doherty, Elizabeth Magill, Brian Maguire, Kathy Prendergast, Sean Scully, Sean Shanahan

Hugh Lane Centenary Print Collection

20 November 2008 - 08 February 2009

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane

A unique collaboration between Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane and Dorothy Cross, Willie Doherty, Barry Flanagan and Keith Milow, Louis le Brocquy, Ciarán Lennon, Anne Madden, Elizabeth Magill, Brian Maguire, Brian O’Doherty, Kathy Prendergast, Patrick Scott, Seán Scully and Seán Shanahan. Mindful of the concept and the ethos of Hugh Lane supporting contemporary practice, the resulting prints are as exceptional as they are rare.

www.hughlane.ie

Sean Scully

Dorothy Cross

Dorothy Cross

Struggle for Life

11 November 2008 - 31 January 2009

ERES-Stiftung, Munich

The STRUGGLE FOR LIFE symposium and exhibition deals with the process of acclimatization and obliteration from both a scientific and artistic point of view. Eight distinguished artists have been chosen to address such aspects as our evolutionary legacy, the winners of the present development as well as the species that have already been wiped out. They will also scrutinize scientific categorization and simulate new biological hybrids, not for better commercial results, but to create new art forms for their own sake.

An extensive catalog of both the exhibition and symposium and related activities will be published in the summer of 2009.

www.eres-stiftung.de/en

Standing Foxglove

Standing Foxglove (detail)

Barrie Cooke

Sean McSweeney Selects

05 December 2008 - 17 January 2009

Glór, Co. Clare

Continuing glór’s Selects…series of exhibitions, 2008 sees Seán McSweeney pull together a stellar line-up of artists. McSweeney himself is one of Ireland’s leading artists, whose bog pools and landscapes have become iconic images in Irish art.

Glór gallery is privileged to show McSweeney’s selection of Barrie Cooke, Pat Harris, Lorraine Wall & Jimmy O’Connor all artists highly regarded by critics and collectors alike.

www.glor.ie

Didymosphenia Geminata

Phil Collins

life on mars, 55th Carnegie International

03 May 2008 - 11 January 2009

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Curated by Douglas Fogle

zasto ne govorim srpski (na srpskom)
2008
16mm film transferred to DVD
black-and-white and colour, sound, 35 minutes

Acting as a director, photographer, interviewer, and producer, Phil Collins uses photography and video to explore individual and collective processes of representation and the ambivalent relationship between the camera and its subjects. He frequently sites his projects in geographical locations embroiled in social and political turmoil but avoids heavy-handed political messages in favor of intimate, vulnerable portrayals of individuals within a community. Through his work, Collins questions the ethical nature of visual media by offering his subjects the spotlight in exchange for control and ownership of their images. His most recent work, zasto ne govorim srpski (na srpskom), (2008), commissioned for this exhibition, is set amidst the political turmoil in Kosovo and its struggle for independence. Using the community's complicated relationship with the Serbo-Croat language as a reflection of its ambivalence toward its history and identity, Collins records testimonies by a number of contributors - from politicians, intellectuals and public figures to ordinary people - recounting in Serbo-Croat the reasons why they don't speak the language.

blog.cmoa.org/CI08/home.php

zasto ne govorim srpski (na srpskom)

Siobhan Hapaska

Life?
Biomorphic Forms in Sculpture

27 September 2008 - 11 January 2009

Kunsthaus Graz am
Landesmuseum Joanneum

Recently questions on biology and genomics deal with topics of evolution, ethics and concrete fears of extinction. The show “Life?” at Kunsthaus Graz will look at these questions through the eye of contemporary sculpture, thereby finding forms of the organic, of the bio- and anthropomorphic as well as a new dimension of materiality: Can art help to understand the complex phenomenon of a “natural system” or the possibilities of changing nature through experiments?

 “Life” collects contemporary sculpture dealing with forms of the organic, echoing life and its fragile existence and will be displayed in the top floor of Kunsthaus Graz – the phenomenon of organic architecture in itself and starting point of the idea the exhibition.

www.kunsthausgraz.steiermark.at

Becoming Cyclonic

Speaker

Willie McKeown

Irish Museum Of Modern Art, Dublin

05 November 2008 - 11 January 2009

William McKeown’s work engages with the more delicate, indefinable qualities of nature, in particular the sky and the air above and around us, often with an emphasis on the emergence of daylight as experienced in the morning hours. McKeown’s work in recent years was defined by the artist’s highly crafted surfaces and meticulous application of thin washes of paint. This exhibition of new work comprised of oil on canvas, watercolour on paper and pencil drawings marks a distinct shift towards a more gestural, expressive brush work producing a more pronounced painterly effect. These paintings evolve McKeown’s remarkably refined sense of colour and understanding of light resulting in a body of work that is poetic, expansive and evocative of nature while remaining subtle and quietly restrained.

www.imma.ie

Hope painting - ocean light

Hope painting

Paul Seawright

Anxious Landscape

28 November 2008 - 10 January 2009

Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast

Anxious Landscape: Paul Seawright Selected Works, is an exhibition reflecting on work by Paul Seawright with a particular focus on his exploration of aspects of the political situation in the North of Ireland. The Golden Thread Gallery views Anxious Landscape as making a significant contribution to the gallery’s exhibition programme, which includes a comprehensive investigation into the construction of representations of post-war Northern Ireland. The exhibition examines a sense of how Seawright has responded to the heavily mediated story of ‘The Troubles’ by producing photographic investigations that have contributed alternative interpretations to the depictions of Northern Ireland in the national and international newspapers. The exhibition offers the viewer an opportunity to reflect on the journey taken by Seawright in the 1980’s & 1990’s “through the physical landscape of his native city, mapping out the cultural, political and social divides that exist in the mind of its inhabitants.”  Anxious Landscape features a broad selection works and will include his earliest work, Sectarian Murder, recently exhibited at Tate Britain.

www.gtgallery.org.uk

Untitled (pylon)

Liam Gillick

theanyspacewhatever

24 October 2008 - 07 January 2009

Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York

During the 1990s a number of artists claimed the exhibition as their medium. Working independently or in various collaborative constellations, they eschewed the individual object in favor of the exhibition environment as a dynamic arena, ever expanding its physical and temporal parameters. Using the museum as a springboard for work that reaches beyond the visual arts, their work often commingles with other disciplines such as architecture, design, and theater, engaging directly with the vicissitudes of everyday life to offer subtle moments of transformation. This loose affiliation of artists, each of whom now boasts strong, independent careers, periodically and randomly joins forces to create a variety of projects. The Guggenheim Museum has extended an invitation to a core group of these artists—Angela Bulloch, Maurizio Cattelan, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Jorge Pardo, Philippe Parreno, and Rirkrit Tiravanija—to collectively formulate a scenario for an exhibition, one that will reflect and articulate the unique nature of their practices. Organized by the museum’s Chief Curator, Nancy Spector, in close collaboration with the artists, the exhibition will present a genealogy of their shared history through site-specific installations of new, often self-reflexive works created on the occasion of this project.

This exhibition is sponsored by Hugo Boss
Additional support is provided by the Waldorf  Astoria Collection; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Etant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art, a program of FACE; and The Grand Marnier Foundation.

The Guggenheim Museum gratefully acknowledges the Leadership Committee for theanyspacewhatever.

Liam Gillick, theanyspacewhatever signage system (prototype), 2008. Aluminum. Installation view, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2008. © Liam Gillick Courtesy Casey Kaplan, New York, and José Noé Suro, Guadalajara. Photo: David Heald

http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/opening_soon/index.html

theanyspacewhatever

Isabel Nolan
Siobhan Hapaska

Mediations Biennale

03 October 2008 - 03 January 2009

11th INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART - POZNAN

"GARDENS AND ISLANDS"

The exhibition presents the newest, predominantly Central European, art. Its main idea coincides with the event’s key search for answers to the question of Central Europe’s identity, as well as their significance in the contemporary world. The author of the exhibition, the Hungarian Lorand Hegyi, is one of the most important European curators and art historians.

www.mediations.pl

Where matter is, space is curved

Dorothy Cross

Riders to the Sea

27 November 2008 - 30 November 2008

English National Opera marks the 50th anniversary of the death of one of England’s best-loved composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, with a major new production conducted by British music specialist Richard hickox and directed by the acclaimed actress Fiona Shaw. Riders to the Sea is set in the Aran Islands and is his most moving and compelling opera. The piece’s visual concept has been jointly devised by Irish multi-media artist Dorothy Cross and set designer Tom Pye

www.eno.org

Riders to the sea

Siobhan Hapaska

THE BEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
THE METAPHOR OF THE SPACE

14 September 2008 - 23 November 2008

LA BIENNALE DI
VENEZIA 2008
11th INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION

Curated by:
Lóránd Hegyi (Director of Museum of Modern Art Metropole, Saint-Etienne)
Davide Di Maggio (Director of Fondazione Mudima, Milan)


The exhibition presents on the theme - Den Raum beleben -  paradigmatical exemples by contemporary women artists who are working at different  functional interpretation and very personal experiences of space has human, sociocultural context as well, as a field of possible interventions for creating new relations and new interferences. In this process the cultural tradition, memory, history, the conventional language system and the new, actual challenges, the human body and its energies create a new constellation in which mental, metaphysical, symbolical contexts are mixing up with concret, personal - and very often emotional - experiences of the micro - narrative.

www.galeriedavidedimaggio.com/exhibitions/la_biennale_di_venezia/

Toughened in a waterfall of sorrow

Liam Gillick

Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario*

27 September 2008 - 16 November 2008

Kunstverein München

Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario* 

Work 1988 - 2008           
Mirrored Image:
A ‘Volvo’ bar

In autumn 2006 Liam Gillick and four international institutions decided to co-produce a mid-career retrospective in four acts. Earlier this year the first two exhibitions took place at, Witte de With, Rotterdam and Kunsthalle Zürich. Kunstverein München now presents the third act before the retrospective will come to an end at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in autumn 2009.
Instead of simply exhibiting previous works this multilayerd retrospective stands out due to it`s self-reflexive nature. Diverse exhibition formats and forms of presentation come into operation to negotiate Gillick`s work of the past 20 years and discuss the possibilities as well as the limits of a retrospective.
Within this context of this exhibition Kunstverein München is transformed into an active place of production. Produced will be a play titled “Mirrored Image: A ‘Volvo’ bar”, directed by Liam Gillick. Working with a group of young Munich actors within a structure, designed by the artist, a basic text will be developed and reworked into a series of performances that will take place during and within this exhibition.
Adapting the exhibition space as stage on which phenomena of the post-industrial society are played out, the exhibition at Kunstverein München presents a core aspect in Gillicks work: negotiating models of communality

www.kunstverein-muenchen.de/2008/en.01.0.php

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Isabel Nolan

Trance in Inaction

12 September 2008 - 18 October 2008

ARTSPACE
New Zealand

Curated by Brian Butler

Drawing is central to Nolan’s art practice; she describes it as catching a thought, a way to begin:

“Drawing is a great way of describing anything - an object, an idea or a feeling. Aesthetically I like its variability, it can be hard, soft, cold, warm, really conceptual or very emotive, often it is, or at least it appears, very direct and personal – the human touch.” says Nolan

Her drawings have been described by Declan Long as:

"Peculiar, inexplicable fragments of memory or narrative (a hand, a spider, two blue owls) combine with cryptic texts and abstract forms to create an effect that at times resembles the state of hypnogia, that period between waking and sleep when minor hallucinatory flashes are possible, when we are not all there."

During her stay in Auckland Nolan will be undertaking research at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Nolan has exhibited widely in Ireland and internationally, including at the Project Arts Centre and the Goethe Institute, Dublin. She represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2005 has participated in exhibitions at the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

www.artspace.org.nz

Miracle of the sun

Siobhán Hapaska and Isabel Nolan

Micro-narratives : tentation des petites réalités, Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint Etienne

07 May 2008 - 21 September 2008

Curated by Lóránd Hegyi

The exhibition 'MICRO-NARRATIVES' represents 85 positions by contemporary artists whose activity manifests an occupation with an anthropological orientation and tries to find the new narrative in the micro-communities, in the personal experiences, in the intimate and personal inmediate contexts, which resist again the monumental, hierarhic, universalistical explications of society and culture.

www.mam-st-etienne.fr/

Siobhán Hapaska, Dry Spring

Isabel Nolan, The unfolding moment

Sean Scully

Retrospective MACRO al Mattatoio, Rome/Danilo Eccher

10 May 2008 - 17 August 2008

A retrospective of the work of Sean Scully, who combines features of different pictorial styles - Geometrical Abstraction, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Abstract Expressionism - to create a language of his own. By displaying his paintings, drawings and photographs together, we are able to see the consistency that gives meaning to his art. Curator Danilo Eccher, Macro, Rome. Catalogue Published by Thames and Hudson.

The exhibition travels from Miro Foundation, Barcelona to MACRO al Mattatoio, Rome (May-August 2008) and Musee d'Art Moderne de St. Etienne Metropole, France

Helen

Abala

Dorothy Cross

Stage

14 June 2008 - 26 July 2008

This work has been specially commissioned to mark the launch of the Shrewsbury Darwin200 celebrations commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.

Stage was made in the Galapagos Islands which Cross visited with the actor Fiona Shaw (a childhood friend and occasional collaborator) together they explore the current conditions on the Islands and reflect, in that context, on the evolution of art itself and the role for artists within a world facing increasing environmental and cultural changes.

Cross has also been shortlisted to create a permanent installation at London's Natural History Museum to celebrate the legacy of Charles Darwin. Her proposal will be on show at the museum from 4 June to 14 September 2008.

www.shrewsburymuseums.com

Dorothy Cross

Paul Winstanley

Survey, 1990-2007, ARTSPACE, Auckland, New Zealand

26 April 2008 - 31 May 2008

Major survey exhibition of British artist Paul Winstanley's work.

Paul Winstanley is a painter whose commitment to the traditional categories of the still life, the interior and the landscape is allied with an acknowledgement of the centrality of the photographic image to contemporary life. At once methodical and melancholic, his painterly depictions of landscapes, deserted passages, lobbies and walkways, of empty college TV lounges and anonymous interview rooms, are generally rendered in a muted palette reminiscent of a blurred black-and-white snapshot. There is a sense of imposed order as well as an atmosphere of abandonment or expectation about these spaces of fleeting transit, or at best temporary occupation.

www.artspace.org.nz

Veil 11

Yellow Mountains 4

Willie Doherty

The Visitor, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

18 April 2008 - 27 May 2008

The Visitor is a new video installation by Willie Doherty, made specially for The Douglas Hyde Gallery.
The Visitor was shot on location in Belfast in early 2008 and revisits some of Doherty's recurrent themes and preoccupations with place, landscape and memory. The camera moves between the trees of a small forest and scrutinises the surfaces of a block of flats.
The Visitor features an enigmatic figure whose intentions and origins are unclear. The work is driven by a voiceover that speculates about the role and nature of the unnamed visitor. This new installation expands upon the cinematic tropes and narrative conventions that Doherty has deployed in recent works such as Empty, 2006 and Ghost Story, 2007.

Willie Doherty first exhibited at the Douglas Hyde Gallery in 1993. His work has been shown in galleries and museums all over the world.

A publication, to be published after the exhibition, will document The Visitor.

www.douglashydegallery.com

Still taken from The Visitor

Still taken from The Visitor

Still taken from The Visitor

Unique Act, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane

Selected works by Sean Scully, Carmengloria Morales, Ruth Root, Seán Shanahan and Frederic Thursz

11 March 2008 - 25 May 2008

In celebration of the Sean Scully collection, presented by the artist in 2006, the Gallery presents Unique Act. At a time when almost everything around us is mass-produced in factories, this exhibition explores works that are painted out of necessity. A shift in context has inadvertently awarded abstract paintings a very special sort of position. It is upon this heritage that Sean Scully, Carmengloria Morales, Ruth Root, Seán Shanahan and Frederic Thursz engage in a dialogue with abstraction and open up new possibilities that challenge the theoretical impasse set up by American art critic Clement Greenberg. Essay by David Carrier.

www.hughlane.ie

Shanahan

Shanahan

Tony Swain

Impure Passports
Inverleith House, Edinburgh

16 February 2008 - 20 April 2008

New drawings made for Inverleith House by one of the artists chosen to represent Scotland at the 2007 Venice Biennale; the works in acrylic on newspaper have a dreamlike, surreal quality and have been installed by the artist throughout the first-floor.

www.rbge.org.uk

Tony Swain

Isabel Nolan

Gallery 2, Douglas Hyde Gallery

14 March 2008 - 10 April 2008

Nolan works in a range of media that includes painting, drawing, sculpture, and video animation. Drawing equally on traditions of abstraction, figuration and the ‘imagetext’ the world evoked in Nolan’s work is a world of intimacies and oddities, of quiet desperation and compensatory joys. Usually modest in scale these works have little time for bombast or monumentality, preferring to explore by accumulating increments a kaleidoscopic array of everyday wonders and commonplace feelings such as loneliness, tenderness, frustration, fear and hope. The mundane particularities of the real are repeatedly enlivened in her work by the workings of a spirited, off-beat imagination.

www.douglashydegallery.com

Death after life

Jesus, you look so sad

Phil Collins

the world won't listen, Dallas Museum of Art

09 November 2007 - 23 March 2008

The Dallas Museum of Art will premiere Phil Collins’ completed three-part video installation the world won’t listen. Filmed in Colombia, Turkey, and Indonesia, the video trilogy features fans of the influential British indie-rock band The Smiths performing karaoke versions of tracks from their 1987 compilation album The World Won’t Listen. Along with the first-ever public presentation of Collins’ completed trilogy, the Dallas exhibition will also include a series of works based on letters that Morrissey, the band’s iconic lead singer, wrote as a teenager to London music weeklies.

www.dallasmuseumofart.org

el mundo no escuchará

dunia tak akan mendengar

Mark Francis

Pulse, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane

20 January 2008 - 22 February 2008

Borrowing from scientific imagery and maps of both the natural and manmade world, Mark Francis’ recent work renews one’s interest in abstraction. The exhibition centres around three large diptychs, titledTimbre I, II, and III, in which Francis responds directly to sound and vibration. The paintings of Mark Francis present us with rhythmic compositions that seem part-electronic, part-organic. Cadences made material with forms strung on supports throbbing across the picture plane. The content is neither figurative nor abstract. What are they? Pictures of things from so close up, that they seem to pixelate.

www.hughlane.ie

Timbre IV, (diptych)

Timbre I, (diptych)

Callum Innes

From Memory, Museum of Contempory Art, Sydney

27 November 2007 - 17 February 2008

This exhibition of new and recent paintings by Callum Innes brings together the themes and preoccupations of his practice over the last fifteen years. Examples from his series of 'identified form', 'isolated form', 'repetition', 'monologue', 'resonance' and shellac paintings join a substantial body of 'exposed' paintings, from the earliest to the most recent, in a stunning exploration of the development of the artist's visual vocabulary. Callum Innes: From Memory is organised by The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. The exhibition travels from Modern Art Oxford to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in November 2007.

Publication 256pp: From Memory
This substantial retrospective monograph traces the development of Innes's practice from 1990 to 2006 and features new essays by Michael Auping, Richard Cork, Paul Bonaventura and Eric de Chassey available from The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.

www.modernartoxford.org.uk

Monologue Seven

Exposed Painting Cinnabar Green

Jaki Irvine

In a World Like This, Chisenhale Gallery, London

31 October 2007 - 08 December 2007

This multi-projection installation was shot at Eagles Flying, The Irish Raptor Research Centre in Ballymote. Co Sligo.
In a World Like This is concerned with the question as to how we might best proceed in circumstances which are not perfect but are possibly the best they're ever likely to be. At the raptor centre birds of prey sit out in the garden, and are at once both surreal and beautiful. Some of the birds have been damaged through misuse at other holdings, and have grown overly aggressive or are physically damaged as a result. Others arrived at the centre having been found with broken wings or other injuries. Here, alongside healing limbs and infections, new relationships have been built up with great care and patience. Tracing the sometimes hesitant flights and landings of the different birds to and from their handlers, the fragile lines between damage, beauty and trust slowly reveal themselves. Irvine's films and videos create elusive yet absorbing narratives that explore human interaction with the natural world, with the built environment and with other humans. Using a combination of image, sound and voice-over her films suggest fragments of larger untold narratives and evoke a place where the boundaries between realities and dreams, past and present and animal and human become fluid and permeable. The exhibition which has been produced in collaboration with Chisenhale Gallery, London and The Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland. A major new publication to mark the exhibition will be published in early 2008.

www.chisenhale.org.uk

In A World Like This

In a World Like This

Siobhán Hapaska

Camden Arts Centre, London

28 September 2007 - 25 November 2007

Siobhán Hapaska is best known for her futuristic fibreglass sculptures which juxtapose exotic natural elements and modern manufacturing techniques. In these new works she replaces high-sheen surfaces with objects such as leather, wood, buffalo skull and coyote skin. Siobhán Hapaska's first solo exhibition in the UK in ten years will include an outdoor sculpture created during a residency at Camden Arts Centre

www.camdenartscentre.org

Dry Spring

Speaker

Tony Swain

52nd Venice Biennale

07 June 2007 - 21 November 2007

Announcing details of Scotland and Venice 2007, Curator, Philip Long said: 'Scottish art is at one of its most progressive moments and our chosen artists represent this position in the form of six highly individual talents. As with the heterogeneous character of the Biennale, the work of Charles Avery, Henry Coombes, Louise Hopkins, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer and Tony Swain is diverse, exciting and unpredictable. Some on occasion use invented worlds to investigate their concerns; others make use of comparisons, real situations or look back into history. What is clear is that each artist works with such ability and often with such surprising and new means that they have the power to alter perceptions.'

Artist Merlin James comments on Swains work: '[His] semi-abstract designs, with chevrons and loose grids, and rudimentary evocations of perspective and spacial illusion, invite direct material and aesthetic response. He engages the viewer's physical and emotional empathy as much as or simultaneously with - intellectual speculation.'

www.labiennale.org

Torn Rota

Dipped in the Blood of a Car

Merlin James

52nd Venice Biennale

07 June 2007 - 21 November 2007

After the resounding success of previous presentations from Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art Richard Deacon, Merlin James and Heather & Ivan Morison have been selected to represent Wales at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. The Venice Biennale is widely regarded as the most important event in the contemporary art calendar. With over 70 nations participating, it provides the artists representing Wales with an outstanding international platform. The Wales exhibition is hosted by the Arts Council of Wales in partnership with the Welsh Assembly Government. The Wales Pavilion will be located in the same exhibition space as previous years, the Ex-Birreria on the island of Giudecca. This has proved to be an ideal exhibition venue. Hannah Firth the Curator for 2007 says I was delighted to be chosen to curate the 2007 show for Wales; selection has been extremely challenging and exciting due to the strength and range of work being produced in Wales and by Welsh artists. I am looking forward to working closely with all of the selected artists, to create an exhibition that will allow each of them to explore new ideas that will contribute to a dynamic overall show.

www.labiennale.org

Squaw

Tree and Building

Willie Doherty

52nd Venice Biennale

07 June 2007 - 21 November 2007

The Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the British Council have announced that Hugh Mulholland will once again be the curator for Northern Ireland's art exhibition at next year's 52nd Venice Biennale. Mulholland has selected Willie Doherty to represent Northern Ireland. Willie is one of Northern Ireland's highest profile artists and an established name in the international contemporary art scene. The artist and curator will work together to present a new body of work in Venice.

www.labiennale.org

Ghost Story

Ghost Story

Tadao Ando

Lecture: Creating Dreams

23 September 2007

Kerlin Gallery is delighted to announce that it is one of the sponsors of the first public appearance in Ireland by the internationally renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando.

Tadao Ando (born 1941 in Osaka, Japan) has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field. He works primarily in exposed cast-in-place concrete and is renowned for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative through the pared aesthetics of international modernism. In 1969, he established the firm Tadao Ando Architects & Associates. In 1995, Ando won the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize medallion; an award generally considered to be the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in Architecture. His work is known for the creative use of natural light and for architecture that follow the natural forms of the landscape, rather than disturbing the landscape by making it conform to the constructed space of a building.

This event is presented by The Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland and sponsored by Kerlin Gallery in cooperation with Yoshii Gallery, New York and the Clarence Hotel, Dublin.

http://www.modernart.ie/en/page_170607.htm

Tadao Ando

Church on Water

Willie Doherty

Hamburg Kunstverein and Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munchen

19 May 2007 - 02 September 2007

Hamburg Kunstverein - 19 May 2007 - 2 September 2007
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munchen - 29 September 2007 - 6 January 2008

Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1959, Willie Doherty is one of the best-known artists of his generation and has been chosen to represent his home country at the Venice Biennale this year. In order to do justice to the evolution of this impressive oeuvre, the Hamburg Kunstverein and the Lenbachhaus Munich have developed two different, complementary exhibitions that give a representative showing of the slide installations and videos from the start of Doherty's career in the early 1990s to the present day.

The exhibition received financial support from Culture Ireland and University of Ulster
Curated by Yilmaz Dziewior and Matthias Mühling

The catalogue is published by Hatje Cantz with essays by Francis McKee and Matthias Mühling, an interview with the artist by Yilmaz Dziewior, and a videography documenting the filmic works from 1990-2007.

www.lenbachhaus.de

Closure

Empty

Phil Collins

gercegin geri donusu / the return of the real, Ausstellungshalle Zeitgenoessische Kunst, Muenster

02 June 2007 - 26 August 2007

For gercegin geri donusu / the return of the real (2005), originally produced for the 9th International Istanbul Biennial, Collins invited people who felt their lives had been ruined by appearing on talk-shows and makeover shows to tell their extraordinary stories at a press conference. Furthermore, Collins hired a director of a Turkish reality TV show to conduct hour-long interviews with the participants. By putting these individuals under scrutiny once again, Collins makes the ethics of further exploitation one of the main subjects of the piece.

 Phil Collins's art investigates our ambivalent relationship with the camera as both an instrument of attraction and manipulation, of revelation and shame. He often operates within forms of low-budget television and reportage-style documentary to address the discrepancy between reality and its representations. In his projects, Collins creates unpredictable situations and his irreverent and intimate engagement with his subjects - a process he describes as 'a cycle of no redemption' - is as important for his practice as the final presentation in the gallery.

www.muenster.de/stadt/ausstellungshalle/ausstellungen-aktuell.html

gercegin geri donusu / the return of the real

gercegin geri donusu / the return of the real

Willie Doherty

Ghost Story

31 January 2008 -

"Ghost Story (2007) is a new work by the master of paranoia and passive aggression, Willie Doherty, which introduces the use of a first-person voiceover (by the actor Stephen Rea) that details the speaker’s mounting anxiety as he is unable to order, much less interpret, his own fragmentary and sometimes violent memories.”
Marcia E. Vetrocq, Venice Biennale review, Art in America, Sept 2007

Screening at Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, 18:30-20:00 followed by Willie Doherty and Tim Marlow in conversation.

Ghost Story

Ghost Story

Mark Francis

Book Launch

08 July 2008 -

This monumental monograph spans the artist's entire career to date, from his early landscapes to his current abstractions as well as considering the varied influences and sources of inspiration throughout his practice. This chronological survey also illustrates Francis' habit of revisiting the ideas of his earlier works and taking them in new directions.

Featuring essays and discussions by Richard Dyer, James Peto, Francis McKee and forward by Barbara Dawson, Director of Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, this beautifully illustrated book includes over 200 colour plates celebrating the career of Mark Francis.

18.30-20.30
The Arts Club, Mayfair, London W1S 4NP

www.lundhumphries.com

Mark Francis

Sean Shanahan

'interludium'

26 January 2010 -

A Public Lecture by Seán Shanahan
85-86 Saint Stephens Green in Newman House

Admission free, 17.00 - 18.00 pm

The installation by Sean Shanahan at 85-86 Saint Stephens Green in Newman House rises through the stairwell from ground level to first floor and engages with the architecture of the Georgian building that contains rare samples of the finest 18th century plasterwork in Dublin.
 
The installation operates in a series of parallels, both direct and metaphorical, that opens up an opportunity for seeing the architecture and history anew in what for us has become otherwise familiar. A possibility opens for thinking about the relationship between history and actuality. The interaction of the artwork with the space allows the viewer to imagine that it is not just us who perceive the world, but that the world too has its vision of us, and it can be discovered and set in motion by our departure from the established frameworks of history.

Emphasizing the skin of the interior, it's very decorative nature, allows for an illicit aesthetic pleasure while it's defining space gives a safe boundary for reverie. The installation by Sean
Shanahan attempts to highlight this, just as if a text where highlighted or underlined. The aim is to create dialogue rather than contrast – an indication of the continuity between the past and the present, between then and now.

Contact: Newman House: Ruth Ferguson, 85-86 Saint Stephens Green, Dublin 2. Tel: 00353 (0)1 475 7255

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