As I mentioned yesterday I visited some galleries and the first of these was Kerlin in Annes Lane near Grafton St. This just appears as a door in a wall and this is what you see inside:
When you get to the top you are led into a beautiful space and this is what is there at present:
Siobhan Haspaska - the recent incarnation of two advanced souls - 2012
The present show consists of large conceptual pieces by Siobhan Hapaska and paintings by Stephen McKenna and the juxtaposition between 3D and 2D is quite challenging, particularly as the latter is - at first look, anyway - quite traditional. Indeed, the juxtaposition also exists within the concept pieces between the heavily industrial and the organic. The above image doesn't really do justice to the highly polished aluminium that constitutes the inorganic and really has to be seen - and looked at - for full impact.
Here is another:
four angels - 2012
Again the effect of the light inside the selenium crystals and the high reflectivity of the aluminium is lost here.
I do not wish to undervalue the paintings which required more lenghty viewing to achieve their effect - rather more than one might have imagined at first glance and much more rewarding.
Leaving Kerlin:
My second visit was here:
Douglas Hyde gallery - Trinity college - and for any students who are interested in fabrics and textiles this one is worth seeing. It is in two parts:
Chanteh
Tribal textiles from Iran
Image is not great because I scanned it from the gallery leaflet; this is a collection of little bags woven by girls in Iran and the designs were amazing -they were in four groups of about thirty each but no pictures were allowed .
The Paradise[38]
Eva Rothschild
the latter was a group of three pieces produced in reaction to the above display and featured 'weavings' in man-made materials such as acrylic and resin.
[I was right in the title of this post - I have loads of time and this has taken three days so far -work faster when I am at school]
The third visit was to Taylor Galleries at the top of Kildare Street and they were running a very big exhibition called the Winter Group Show with about forty artists participating including John Shinnors, Charles Tyrell, George Potter, Brian Bourke, John Devlin, Anne Madden, Tim Goulding et al. All the work was new and much of it done specially for the show. It was an impressive array of what is going on at present in one particular area of Irish contemporary art.
Along the way,I picked up this newsletter published by Fire Station Artists Studios of Buckingham Street, Dublin:
The booklet is a mine of information on programmes for artists and the provision of studio space. Resident artists in the past have included Alice Maher, Makiko Nakamura (in the Taylor show), Mark Garry and Niamh O'Malley. There is a run-down on present artists in residence and available skills programmes. I must find out what is transpiring similarly in Limerick.
Ok, that will do for now and let's get back up to date.
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