April exhibition to mark temporary re-opening
of Hugh Lane (Thursday 24 March #2)
compiled by Elaine Cronin
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Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. Image
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Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane has just
announced that there is to be a temporary six-month re-opening
of the Parnell Square-based gallery to facilitate a temporary
exhibition programme which is to begin this 15 April. The news
comes during the gallery's year-long renovation period, due
to be completed by Spring of 2006 by Dublin-based architects
Gilroy McMahon. The opening exhibition, entitled Clarke
and McDevitt Present, is a project involving artists
Declan Clarke and Paul McDevitt who have been specially selected
to choose five artists to respond to the formal gallery spaces,
as well as the gallery's permanent collection, which will include
the Francis Bacon Studio. Most people will probably remember
the duo from their recent project on O'Connell Street, Tischtennistisch,
the interesting table-tennis installation which was part of
the Communism exhibition at Project, but the artists
have also organised various exhibitions including The
Armchair Project in Cynch in 2000, London, and
Play it as it Lays - 17 artists from Los Angeles, at
the London Institute in 2002.
The five artists selected have never shown
in Ireland before, and come from a variety of media backgrounds
including painting, drawing, video and installation-based work,
so the final outcome could be an interesting reinvention of
the gallery's collection. The list of selected artists included
is Bjorn Dahlem, Sophie van Hellermann, Ian Kiaer, Corneliua
Quackbeck and Matt Calderwood, and they will each be presented
with a gallery space in which they are to make new work on site.
Clarke and McDevitt will also use the Sculpture Hall to create
work, which will in turn act as an introduction to the exhibition
and to the other chosen artists.
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