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LCGA
LIMERICK CITY GALLERY OF ART OFF-SITE
Thursday 20 May
2010
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June – 11 July 2010
Still life with...
/ Cleary & Connolly / LCGA / MIC / Hunt Museum / AIB
Prize 2009
Opening at the
Hunt
Museum on Thursday 3 June 2010 at
7pm.
Limerick City Gallery of Art is pleased to announce
the AIB art prize exhibition by Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly opening at the
Hunt Museum, Rutland Street on Thursday 3 June 2010 at 7pm. The
exhibition is bipartite in structure with works on display at the Hunt Museum
and at Limerick City Council, Istabraq Hall, Merchants Quay, where LCGA will
take up residency during the redevelopment of the Carnegie
Building.
The Hunt
Museum
The project is inspired by Patrick Hennessy’s
magnificent Still life painting from the permanent collection of Limerick
City Gallery of Art. Still life with... reconstructs the original
Still life as a 3-dimensional set, inviting you to step right into the
painting. It provides a meeting place for pixels and pigments, for moving and
fixed images, for shimmering light and hard matter, for young and old. Depending
on the visitor’s reaction, the exhibition can be a drawing exercise, a
performance, a dialogue between old and new, a reflection on pictorial space...
or simply a game.
Still life with... is a space into which the
viewer can step—to be part of this three-dimensional exploration of
painting currently under construction in Limerick. Eighteen young student
teachers - from Mary Immaculate College at the University of Limerick - are busy
building the giant fruit that will form the heart of the installation, while the
artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly are elaborating three interactive
installations that will interpret movement and stillness.
Every year The AIB Prize identifies emerging Irish
visual artists and helps them launch their career through the staging of a
showcase exhibition in a publicly funded venue. Winners of the AIB Prize 2009,
the artists hope—through this ground-breaking project—to push the
boundaries of educational models for cultural projects, and so the choice of
working with student teachers was a judicious one. The project will impact not
only on the young people directly involved, but will resonate on future
generations of children through the experiences and confidence gained by their
teachers in working with contemporary art. Once installed,
Still life with... is as much about what moves as what is still. The
interactive video projections study moving bodies - people - and how
!
they
interact with the still objects of the installation. Meanwhile easels invite
visitors who might prefer a more traditional approach to take up a pencil and
draw their own still life.
Limerick City Council, Istabraq
Hall
A selection of video works dating from 1998 to 2010
will be exhibited at Limerick City Council, Istabraq Hall on Merchants Quay
including the award-winning Scenes from the Boulevard (2002), a mixture
of real life documentary, performance, choreography and experimentation.
Shot from the fifth floor of a Parisian apartment block, the artists consider
the world below as the set for a series of scenes to be played out, exploring
that fuzzy line between fiction and reality. Also exhibited are extracts
from Touchy (1998), Natures Construites (2007) and Moving Dublin
(2009). “It’s not about one person, but a plethora of
people stitched together. It is full of that sort of truth about how we are
as a flawed, miserable, attractive, funny people.” (Eamon Ryan, TD,
2009)
Award winning Irish
artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly live and work in Paris, where they moved
in 1990 following architectural studies in Dublin during the 1980s. Patterns of
behaviour, both in cities and within our institutions, are a central
preoccupation of their work; and these they examine through narrative and
interactive video, installation, photography, and text. Cleary and Connolly see
their work as an ongoing engagement with the world.
Recent solo
exhibitions include: Pourqui pas toi at the Pompidou Centre; Moving
Dublin at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris; Here There Now Then
at the Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland; and Yokohama House Guests
at the Yokohama Triennial, Japan.
Recent group
exhibitions include:Sombras e Luz, Sesc Pompéia, Sao Paulo;
Noughties but Nice, 21st Century Irish Art. LCGA, Limerick; TULCA
Season of visual art, Galway; Do Something Different, the Barbican
Centre, London; Tina –B, National Gallery, Prague; Global
Tour, W139, Amsterdam.
The
Hunt Museum
Rutland Street, Limerick, Ireland.
Phone +353 61 312833
Opening hours Monday- Saturday 10.00-5.00, Sunday
2.00-5.00
Limerick City Council, Istabraq Hall
Merchants Quay, Limerick, Ireland
Phone +353 61 310633
Opening hours Monday-Friday 9.30-5.30
Events at the Hunt
Museum
Thursday 3 June,
7pm
Opening reception
Friday 4 June 1pm
Artist’s talk with Anne Cleary in the Captain’s
Room
Saturday 19 June, 1pm
Still Life with... a
historical
survey
Lecture with Karolina Badzmierowska and Marietheres
Schulze
Saturday 10 July, 11.30am-1pm
Still Life with...
Family Movement workshop with dancer Cindy
Cummings
Saturday 10 July, 2.30pm-3.30pm
Dance improvisation performance with Cindy Cummings followed by
artists’ talk with Anne Cleary and Denis
Connolly
The
Limerick City Gallery of Art acknowledges the financial support of AIB prize
2009 and the Arts Council in making this exhibition possible. Still life
with… is in partnership with The Hunt Museum and Mary Immaculate
College at the University of Limerick.
Limerick City Gallery of Art is part of Limerick City
Council, funded by the Arts Council and supported by Fas, Failte Ireland,
Shannon Development and the Heritage
Council.
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