This is a round-up of of art exhibitions that I highly recommend people see during our season of celebrating culture, writes Culture Night 2024 Artist-in-Residence Aideen Barry.
These are the top shows to see in Ireland right now:
Liane Lang: Deep Time Dip
Liane Lang is a German-born, London-based visual artist who explores time and memory through monuments and historic landscape in her mixed-media practice.
Lang approaches this history with an eye to deep time and constant change. As we prepare for the cataclysmic changes we must now make globally in how things are made and done, the combination of material fascination and storytelling compels us to contemplate our actions in the landscape differently.
(Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, until 29th September 2024)
Enjoy a discussion between Liane and Aideen Barry below.
Richard Malone: A Record of Tenderness
A Record of Tenderness is a powerful exploration of labour and class through sculpture, performance and film. The artist combines disparate gendered practices to build propositional frameworks and to dismantle constructed identities.
(The Dock, Carrig on Shannon, Co. Leitrim, until 5 October 2024)
(Pic: Ros Kavanagh)
Cecilia Bullo & Arno Kramer: In Dreams
Arno Kramer works as a visual artist in The Netherlands and Ireland. He has been exhibiting in Ireland since 1995. He has shown at Green on Red Gallery, Limerick City Gallery of Art, The Model, Ballina Arts Centre, Galway Arts Centre, The Mermaid Arts Centre, Crawford Gallery and at the Cavanacor Gallery. In Northern Ireland his work has been exhibited at Ormeau Baths Gallery, Millennium Court Art Centre and Fenderensky Gallery. He is currently the founder and first curator of the Drawing Centre Diepenheim in The Netherlands (Kunstvereniging Diepenheim).
Cecilia Bullo is an Irish-Italian visual artist based in Dublin who makes sculptures and multimedia installations. Her practice is research-based and informed by historical, mythological, psychoanalytic and ecofeminist theories, which create a vital conceptual framework for her physical work. In particular, she is interested in material cultures relating to rituals of healing and transformation, including iconography and artefacts linked to cultural traditions, urban shamanism, and ecofeminism.
(Esker Art Centre, Tullamore County Offaly, until 26 Oct 2024)
Seiko Hayasse & Deirdre Frost: Civilisation Blooming/文明開花
Cork-based artists Deirdre Frost and Seiko Hayase collaborate in producing a cross-cultural exhibition Civilisation Blooming / 文明開花, a project that will see the two artists venture into new media and establish a synergistic practice.
文明開花 means 'civilisation' in Japanese and is written using characters that mean ‘blooming culture’. ‘Bloom’ can be considered a positive, when something has flowered, is in its prime or at its peak. However, an algal bloom for example can be considered a negative event, a sign of ecological imbalance. Looking at the idea of peak humanity in this Anthropocene age, with the potential collapse of multiple organisational systems looming globally, the artists consider the idea of civilisation blooming.
(Lavit Gallery, Cork, until 29th of September 2024)
Andrea Newman: Baile na mBocht
Baile na mBocht is an exhibition displaying the work and research of Cork-based artist Andrea Newman investigating the history of and ongoing neglect of social housing in Mayfield. She has been exploring this subject matter through motifs of death and the use of lost Irish language. The Irish word for Mayfield is Baile na mBocht but the direct translation to English is town of the poor. This comes from the area being the site of a leper colony, today now sixty percent of the area consists of social housing in disrepair. Black mold and a bad landlord. Where do we go from here?
(Studio 12, Backwater Artist Studios, Cork, until 3th October 2024)
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls is an exhibition drawing inspiration from a poem from Ultima Thule (1880), one of the last collections published by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). The poem can be interpreted as a metaphor for life's transient nature and death’s enigma. The ocean’s eradication of the wanderer’s tracks suggests the complete erasure of their existence from the mortal realm. Death, in this context, is depicted as irreversible and absolute. The recurring phrase "the tide rises, the tide falls" amplifies this unsettling sense of finality.
Curated by Soňa Smédková, the show features works by seven Master of Arts in Creative Practice students from the School of Design and Creative Arts, ATU, Galway - Róisín Doherty, Em, Jed Gjerek, Taïm Haimet, Amy Kramer, Emma Jane Mooney, and Anastasiia Rachok investigating cultural, environmental, and societal issues of our time.
(Galway Arts Centre, Galway City, Until September 28th 2014)
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