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Amnesty art turning into a spectacular /
interns to reckon with (Tuesday 27 April 2004)
compiled by Liz Aders
Yoko Ono and the Edge to launch Amnesty hit
It's turning into one of the art sales / art
events of the year, creating a big buzz, and helping a great cause.
Works from In the time of shaking
are already on sale, and already selling well, for stiff prices.
Proceeds (after costs) go to Amnesty. To see what's on offer,
visit the exhibition's
website (you'll need to be Flash-enabled; if you're not, this
site would make it worth your while to update your browser).
And it seems that the Irish Museum of
Modern Art is getting a real taste for celebrity openings. IMMA
drew a great crowd when Bono launched the Francesco Clemente show
there recently (more here, and a CIRCA
review of the show here).
Celebrity-spotters get ready again - on Thursday 6 May Yoko Ono
and Edge will attend the Irish Museum of Modern Art and officially
open the Amnesty show. Ono was one of the artists who contributed
an artwork to the one-hundredth edition of CIRCA.
In the time of shaking is
an exhibition of contemporary new Irish art. The exhibition comprises
a sale, exhibition and limited-edition book. The new works by
more than 100 of Ireland's most important contempoary artists
include Louis le Brocquy, Patrick Scott, Camille Souter, Sean
Scully, Tony O'Malley, Barrie Cooke, Patrick Ireland, Patrick
O'Reilly, Anne Madden, Mark Francis, Jane O'Malley, Basil Blackshaw,
Hughie O'Donoghue, Alice Maher, Carey Clarke, Guggi, Dorothy Cross,
Michael Kane, Grace Weir, Felim Egan, Vivienne Roche, Maud Cotter,
Cecily Brennan and Clare Langan.
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| Yoko Ono: coming to Dublin in May.
Image held here |
The exhibition is the brainchild of Professor
Ciar½n Benson of University College Dublin, and the 'Artists for
Amnesty International 2004' Committee. Says Benson:
I asked the artists for something preferably recent,
something which they judge to be their best. A few works have
been painted especially for this sale. It's difficult to say
how much will be made, but the first of these art sales in 1982
raised sufficient money to buy Amnesty Ireland its premises.
The art is being sold on a first-come,
first-served basis. There's still plenty available if you have
between 1,000 to 175,000 euro to spare! IMMA will also host a
book-signing on the 9 May from 1 - 4pm where over fifty of the
exhibiting artists will be around to sign a copy for members of
the public. A limited edition of 3,000 is available for purchase
through Art for Amnesty for 45 euro. Again, visit the exhibition
website for more.
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| Limited edition book for In the
time of shaking exhibition |
Interns on the up
We are always delighted to hear what our
former interns are doing once they have left us to venture into
the big, bad world. Two of our most recent interns, Sarah Browne
and Eimear McKeith, have been successfully making waves in the
Irish art world. Sarah is exhibiting as part of ev+a 2004,
in Limerick until 23 May. Eimear McKeith has just notified us
of her new role with the Event Guide, so we'll happily
give that a plug on her behalf. The Event Guide, which
is distributed weekly, has just begun a fortnightly column on
what's happening in the visual arts in Dublin and its environs.
It's called Gallery Glance and is written by our Eimear.
It will provide an in -depth account of upcoming openings, talks,
events and exhibitions. It will also include interviews. Thanks
for your hard work Eimear and Sarah and best of luck to you both.
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| Responses so far |
| Comment 1 |
Surely listing only a selective few exhibitors in the Art
for Amnesty show diminishes the rights of those not
mentioned? In a show such as this all artists should be
equal!
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| Comment 2 |
Well it's nice that IMMA are hosting another art aid. What
an imaginative idea. Rich people get art. Important artists
get more important. Amnesty gets a new computer and the
world is saved again. Hurrah! Is this empty humanist
gesticulation the best we can deliver? Figures.
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| Comment 3 |
With respect to Comment 2: feel free to deliver something
better.
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| Comment 4 |
It's not my job to save the world. Neither is it the
function of art. But since you offer...How about 'artists
for indifference'featuring those neither trendy enough to
possess an Amnesty t-shirt nor important enough to show in
IMMA.
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