Just thought that I would let you know about some of the shows I’ve been to lately.
1) Charles Harper – Drawings by Charles Harper
Exhibition in the United Artists Club opened by Ruairi Quinn TD
Thursday 18th February
Exhibition will run until March 9th 2010. It was a real treat to see such a wonderful selection of Charles Harper’s work in such an historic and prestigious artists club. Definitely worth seeing..
2) Dorothy Cross and William McKeown - Exhibition “Pool”
THURSDAY 18 FEBRUARY, 6-8 PM
Went to see this the same night as Charlie Harper. Very different exhibitions. The delicate watercolours on paper of McKeown were a response to Cross’s exploration of water in all it’s aspects. Particularly liked Cross’s suspended shark skin gilded inside with 21 carat gold!
3) Francis Alÿs: Le Temps du Sommeil
A sneak preview of the Francis Alÿs show which opened on 25th February. Limited to just 30 people, there was a glass of wine and a walk around the show with the Curator Catherine Lampert on Wednesday 24th, the evening before the official opening.
East Ground Galleries, IMMA
Francis Alÿs (Belgian, but living in Mexico) is a compulsive wanderer: a close observer and occasional manipulator of the quirks of everyday life, he has been assembling a series of 100 tiny paintings (accompanied by instructions and postcards), visual ‘diaries’ of his interactions with locations all over the world. This series is being shown at IMMA before it travels to Tate Modern for an international retrospective of Alÿs’s work, and it is an honour to be able to show it in Dublin before it’s UK showing.
Loved this show and the chance to ask the curator all those questions that I normally have, having seen a contemporary show!
