Bearings
dal 26/4/2004 al 17/10/2004
Segnalato da
Richard Long
Hamish Fulton
Vong Phaophanit
Rice Field
Sean Fingleton
Kathy Prendergast
Cristina Iglesias
Sean Scully
Patrick Scott
26/4/2004
Bearings
Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin
Landscapes from the IMMA. This exhibition from IMMA's Collection examines the diverse ways in which artists work in response to the landscape. Bearings will look at the importance of site in contemporary art practice and explore the unstoppable forces of nature and man's interventions in response to it. Environments are built, demolished, explored, cultivated and claimed, and artists respond to these activities by constantly changing their own practices and the nature of their engagement with the landscape.
Landscapes from the IMMA
This exhibition from IMMA's Collection examines the diverse ways in which artists work in response to the landscape. Bearings will look at the importance of site in contemporary art practice and explore the unstoppable forces of nature and man's interventions in response to it. Environments are built, demolished, explored, cultivated and claimed, and artists respond to these activities by constantly changing their own practices and the nature of their engagement with the landscape.
As they attempt to find their bearings they break new ground, opening up wider vistas for us all and challenge traditional ways of framing the landscape. While artists such as Richard Long and Hamish Fulton explore the landscape by positioning themselves within it, others like Vong Phaophanit integrate traditional cultural methods of farming and signs of urbanisation.
Phaophanit's Rice Field recreates the contours of a ploughed rice field in a gallery setting illuminated from within by the neon of urban advertising. Paintings by Sean Fingleton and sculpture by Kathy Prendergast and Cristina Iglesias present a dramatic reading of nature and its elemental forces while works by Sean Scully and Patrick Scott look to the essence of the landscape in their more abstract depictions.
An exhibition guide accompanies the exhibition
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Royal Hospital Military Road Kilmainham 8
Dublin