| Locky Morris | From Day One
Art (consciously written with a capital ‘A’) has been the concern of philosophers from the beginning, from which art (with a small ‘a’) has historically come out rather badly. In The Republic, Plato determined art as mere imitation, a shadow. For Hegel too, art was essentially locked into notions of history; in 1828 he wrote that art "…in its highest... |
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| So Is This
As the opening of a year-long programme of predominantly experimental film works and video installations, mother’s tankstation is presenting Michael Snow’s canonical 1982 conceptual cinematic work, So Is This.
The strategies Snow employs in this probing, but humour-laden, acknowledged masterpiece are simultaneously simple yet engagingly complex. Ostensibly, ‘So... |
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| Mark Hamilton | GHOSTS OF MARS
Curated by Leif Magne Tangen
Ghosts of Mars presents an installation generating an expanding network of reference and association from a stripped down configuration of material and media.
A set of two wall texts is formed from grids of sewing pins wrapped with black thread. Reconfigured from scraps of a novel, The Ticket That Exploded, they hover as screens, operating as both... |
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| At the still point of the turning world.
At the still point of the turning world.
Lee Welch
Preview: Thrusday 16th 2009 6-8pm
April 17th - May 23th 2009
At the still point of the turning world. offers a constellation of points of reference, provocation and stimulation. Nonetheless, the show is modest in its form, comprising of a small array of carefully selected elements, which have been placed with thoughtful... |
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| Lyndsay Mann
For her first International solo show, Lyndsay Mann presents an installation of three works held in conspiratorial conversation across a reduced plane of submissive grey walls at FOUR.
In the first room Mann's film 'Twenty Four More Hours of Progress…' shot at Edinburgh's Dean Bridge, a notorious suicide destination since its completion in 1832, documents a banal activity,... |
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| Exquisite Corpse
Exquisite Corpse is an exhibition of 17 works from the IMMA Collection that seeks to reveal a variety of perspectives on the Collection. The title of the exhibition is drawn from the game ‘Exquisite Corpse’ which was invented by the Surrealists in 1925 where a collection of words or images are collectively assembled. In this case the game’s structure is used to tap... |
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| Lyndsay Mann - Dense Mouth
For her first International solo show, Lyndsay Mann presents an installation of three works held in conspiratorial conversation across a reduced plane of submissive grey walls at FOUR.
In the first room Mann’s film ‘Twenty Four More Hours of Progress…’ shot at Edinburgh’s Dean Bridge, a notorious suicide destination since its completion in 1832,... |
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| Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan: Monument to Another Man s Fatherland
Project Arts Centre is proud to present the newly commissioned installation of two films by Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, in the exhibition Monument to Another Man's Fatherland.
Triggered by the invitation to make a new work for Dublin, the two collaborating Dutch artists followed a trail of migrating Celts to Berlin, where a victory monument commemorates a battle of this... |
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| A thing of beauty, colour and love.
Sarah Pierce
"A thing of beauty, colour and love."
11 December 2008 – 31 January 2009
Opening: Wednesday 10 December 2008 6-8 pm. Special performance by the Copenhagen based group the Shadow Blasters at 8 pm.
FOUR presents the third chapter in a recent work by Sarah Pierce. The artist has undertaken a period of research in the ICA London's archive, focusing... |
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| The Golden Bough: Garrett Phelan: Radio Tombs and Interruption
This project of new work by Garrett Phelan consists of sculptural and drawing elements, all black in colour and each holding their meaning within their physical form. Radios are buried within each of the sculptures, or Tombs, broadcasting a barely audible random radio signal. Phelan does not use artificial light in the space, only the natural light falling from the ceiling above. Apart... |
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| Now s the time
Now's the time is an exhibition comprising a selection of works by eleven artists whose legacy remains influential and relevant today. Each of the artists featured in this exhibition (Piero Manzoni, Eva Hesse, Bas Jan Ader, Gordon Matta–Clark, Jean–Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Martin Kippenberger, Felix Gonzalez–Torres, Helen Chadwick, Michel Majerus and Jason... |
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| David Godbold. Art, Drugs and Prayer
Kerlin Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new works by David Godbold. This new body of work marks both a departure and a return in his practice. ‘Art, Drugs and Prayer’ predominantly manifests as paintings on canvas, rendered at a scale and form that Godbold has not engaged with since the early 1990s. However, like most of his recent works ‘Art, Drugs and... |
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| Ian Burns. Don t try this at home
In her book On Photography, Susan Sontag famously described the responses of interviewed survivors of a plane crash: one on-camera interviewee stated that the terrifying experience had been so real that it was just like watching, or, more acutely, like actually being in a movie.
This complex phenomenological perception of, response to, or determination of ‘reality’ is... |
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| Fergus Martin
Fergus Martin's exhibition at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane is drawn from his recent experiences of sight and seeing. A new body of work in painting and sculpture that is united by a sense of drama and raucous reflection. Yet their placement leaves the viewer in an unsettled state of calm.
Martin has called his paintings 'the carriers' of colour, but the colour is not... |
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| Nonknowledge
ARTISTS: MATTHEW BUCKINGHAM (US) JOACHIM KOESTER (DK) BENOÃŽT MAIRE (FR), TINE MELZER (NL/DE), MAAIKE SCHOOREL (NL), LEE WELCH (IE) & ARTUR ZMIJEWSKI (PL)
"…(N)onknowledge: that which results from every proposition when we are looking to go to the fundamental depths of its content, and which makes us uneasy." Georges Bataille
Many of the artistic practices brought... |
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