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compiled by Belinda Daw
To Dublin's pastures new (July 11,
2003)
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| BáinínBovine
by Carol Kennedy; photo Belida Daw |
A parade of cows has moved
onto the streets of Dublin for the summer.
It is part of a worldwide
public-art initiative that involves 150 life-size fibreglass
cows adorned with paint, fabric and other mixed media. Local artists,
both professional and amateur, as well celebrities were invited
to cover the cows with designs.
At the launch of CowParade
at the Green on Red Gallery, the artists actively encouraged interaction
with the cows - to touch them, sit on the them and
have fun with the art object - something relatively
rare in the visual arts. This interactivity is quickly diminishing
now, a week after the launch, with cows being whisked indoors
away from the hands of vandals.
BáinínBovine
by artist Carol Kennedy was relocated from outside the
Tourism Centre on Suffolk Street to inside. It is dressed in an
impressive full-body cream cable knit. In the GPO on O'Connell
Street is Stampede by Vince
Murphy, appropriately adorned with hundreds of Irish stamps.
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| Stampede
by Vince Murphy; photo Belida
Daw |
Each cow has been sponsored
by Irish businesses - the price of a cow being 8,500
Euro. Bailey's is the overall sponsor. At the end of their run
the cows will be auctioned off with 75% of the profits going to
two charities: the Dublin Simon Community and The Jack and
Jill Trust. The cows will graze Dublin until the end of August.
CIRCA wants you to find
a cow, photograph it and send in your photo for the recirca.com
website. Send your photos, with a description of the cows' locations,
to cows@recirca.com. You
can read more about the beasts here.
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| Responses so far |
| Comment 1 |
Art in Ireland has really hit its lowest point with this
pathetically dumb
art project.
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| Comment 2 |
Spoilsport.
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| Comment 3 |
Spoilsport??! Grow up and say something decent in response
if you want to defend something.
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| Comment 4 |
At last vandalism gets the acknowledgment it deserves.
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| Comment 5 |
Get those flashing symbols of the website now, they are
distracting to the utter point of annoyance!!
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| Comment 6 |
Please remove the message about getting the flashing symbols
off the website out of the comment boxes. It's as equally
annoying as the flashing symbols. You know, the flashing
symbols!!!
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| Comment 7 |
Now we know why public sculpture is made of cast iron and
sheet steel. Welcome back Modernism, all is forgiven.
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| Comment 8 |
What a great way to get the public involved in art. Nice to
see also that the cows have had the ingenuity to move away
from the geographic confines of Dublin and find other
places to graze notably Ice House Hill in Dundalk. With so
little work being exhibited in Dundalk at the moment we
have had to rely on these fantastic bovine creatures to
keep us inspired!
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| Comment 9 |
public sculpture? badly manufactured cows for the tourists.
they are the same as the flashing web ads. And anyone who
defends either, is chewing the cud.
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| Comment 10 |
my son uses a wheelchair and dabbles in photography. we
planned to do a walking cow tour of dublin and snap any cow
we saw for his album. thanks to the vandals an enjoyable
day has been ruined. nice one, vandals.
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| Comment 11 |
free the cow
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| Comment 12 |
why are we bothering? why are we being subjected to this
nonsense in the online forum of the sole Irish contemporary
art magazine? Do you people never come to Belfast to find
out what's really going on? Clue: we have no concrete
livestock. We leave that to the Brits (first time i've
heard of dublin aping milton keynes).
Mackers.
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