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for Ireland for Venice, 2001 |
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Grace
Weir: Distance AB, video stills;
courtesy the artist |
Grace Weir and Siobhán Hapaska are to represent Ireland in
the next Venice Biennale. Weir recently showed in the RHA Gallagher
Gallery, Dublin, which is run by Patrick Murphy - who is also commissioner
for Ireland's contribution. Weir is not letting the accolade run
away with her: she recently answered the query, "Has the successful
economy made life easier for artists?" with the enigmatic "Not at
all. But then life is a dog." (Irish Times, November 5, 2000)
Hapaska's credentials are impressive. She took part in Documenta
X in 1997 and she won the IMMA/Glen Dimplex Award in 1998.
photo/courtesy
Dan Shipsides
Bamboom
(or many poles make poll)
Dan Shipside's Bamboo Support was launched at a reception
in the Gresham Hotel, Dublin, on September 27. The artwork was to
be seen opposite the hotel: the façade of the former Carlton
Cinema entirely clad in bamboo scaffolding.
According to the press pack, "Over 12,000 metres of bamboo was shipped
from Hong Kong for the structure, which is 30m long x 20.5m high
x 1.5m wide. A team of six professional scaffolding workers from
the Ever Need Company Ltd, Hong Kong...erected the scaffolding using
simple hand tools over a five-day period...Bamboo Support
is intended to highlight the current redevelopment of Dublin...The
project also examines the cultural and economic parallels between
Ireland the Far East; between their turbulent tiger economies and
our own..."
The project is funded by Nissan and is a collaboration with the
Irish Museum of Modern Art. It is in place until December 2.
You can find Bamboo Support reviewed
starting on page 46 of this issue. Meanwhile, do you yourself
have an opinion about Bamboo Support? A poll is in
progress here. Why not
surf on over and give a little feedback?
Temple
Bar, the sequel?
Since we are on the subject of the Celtic Tiger, what's to be made
of this? "More than 7,000 high-technology creative jobs will be
generated in a sci-fi city due to be built close to the heart of
Dublin...Located in the Liberties-Coombe area, it will dwarf Temple
Bar and the International Financial Services Centre in terms of
size and ambition...Based on New York's Silicon Alley, the district
will combine traditional arts such as film, graphic design, music
and advertising with new computer-based technoloƒies...Laura Magahy,
who oversaw the development of Temple Bar, is tipped to manage the
scheme." Thus says the Irish edition of the Sunday Times
of November 5.
First in the techno-door, so to speak, are MediaLabEurope (MLE).
We report on MLE's plans, starting on page 14 of this issue.
Art
proves very awarding
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Augustine
O'Donoghue has won the Victor Treacy Award, it was announced at
a ceremony on October 7 at the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny. Adjudicator
Nigel Rolfe commented that the standard of the exhibition was extremely
high and marked one of the best Victor Treacy Awards to date. Other
nominees were: Brendan Earley, Karen Land Hansen, Clodagh Emoe,
Comhghall Casey.
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The
winner of the Tony O'Malley Travel Award is Colin Martin from Dublin.
The award was presented by Tony O'Malley at a ceremony in Kilkenny
Castle on September 28. Martin wishes to travel to small-town America
and the deep south. The award, co-ordinated by the Butler Gallery,
Kilkenny, is sponsored by Waterford Crystal.
- Alanna
O'Kelly has won the Irish American Cultural Institute's O'Malley Art
Award, which "was established in the name of the late Ernie O'Malley,
who, in addition to his literary and patriotic activities, was also
a notable art critic and collector. This award is presented annually
to recognize achievement in the visual arts, particularly that which
has stimulated or guided other Irish artists."
O'Kelly
was the first winner, in 1994, of the IMMA/Glen Dimplex Award, and
she represented Ireland in the São Paolo Bienal of 1998.
- Three
visual artists have been elected to Aosdána and are thus eligible
for the valuable cnuas funds: Nigel Rolfe, Janet Pierce and
Alfonso López Monreal, whose collaboration with John Brown
featured in the autumn edition of CIRCA.
News
from the 'oh hell!' department
In
CIRCA 92 we accidentally printed Anita Groener's image upside-down.
And in CIRCA 93 we lent Maura Sheehan a new first name. Amends of
sorts made here. Our apologies to both artists.
Have
you seen this man or what he's done? Is
this man hanging about your house?
He began, he claims, to paint at a time when it was neither popular
nor profitable to document work - to have taken 'a slide' was considered
the height of vulgar egomania. But now he is planning a publication
to go with a retrospective arranged for May 2001. The publication
needs images of a better quality than what he sent us (see above).
He will arrange to have photographed any work anyone might know
about. The above piece is lost but its author may be contacted:
Noel Sheridan, NCAD, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8, tel. 6364261,
fax 6364267, e-mail noels(@eircom.net.
Deadline is January 2001.
New
Vision
This
is a surprise, and quite a pleasant one: a new photography magazine
has been launched on the Irish market. Vision is a full-colour,
48-page, Dublin-based magazine edited by Myles Claffey. It is dominated
by photo-essays - by Chrys Rigaud, James Gould, Lee Gallagher, Peter
Maybury + Marie Pierre Richard, and Bruce Gilden. Production values
are excellent, the content very engaging. The cover price is IR£2.99.
The format is very similar to that other photography magazine based
in Ireland, Belfast-produced Source,
and we can only hope that together they can expand the appetite
for publications on photography in Ireland. In contrast with Source's
mix of photo projects and analytical essays, Vision, to judge
by the first issue, is dedicated to photo essays to the almost total
exclusion of text. There is an interesting juxtaposition of socially
engaged photo work with mainstream advertising.
Vision can be
contacted at visionmagazine@hotmail.com.
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