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17/7/2014

Summer rising

Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin

IMMA presents its new festival, SUMMER RISING, with a line-up of events that invites everyone to come and enjoy a jam packed programme with something for all ages from Friday 18 July to Saturday 26 July 2014. Taking place in IMMA’s beautiful gardens and historic North Wing, in celebration of the much anticipated exhibition Propositions by Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica, SUMMER RISING promises to be a joyous celebration of art, music, food, and performance with day long family events and a programme of night time events you will not want to miss.

Highlights include a very special edition of THISISPOPBABY's performance, art and club extravaganza WERK; GRACELANDS, artist and chef curated food events presented by Michelle Darmody and Fiona Hallinan including lunch-time and evening banquets; family workshops with artists, chefs and special guests Up & Over It alternative Irish dance group; Happenings pop-up outdoor cinema, Hare Café and Cake Café on the lawn; live music in the gardens including The BQ Trio and Roland Gomez; open studios; gallery and garden talks; and the grand finale IMMA’s Summer Party!

SUMMER RISING will open up our gardens and grounds with day and night time events and is made possible by the OPW Per Cent for Art Scheme.

Highlights of SUMMER RISING include:

Friday 18 July – Opening reception of the exhibition Propositions by Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica, followed by a very special edition of THISISPOPBABY’s performance, art and club extravaganza WERK.

Saturday 19 July – The Garden Rising; a daytime celebration of art, food and performance for all ages taking place in IMMA’s stunning gardens, including Hare Café on the lawn, performances, talks, and art events from 12noon to 5pm.

Tuesday 22 July – Thursday 24 July – Free family workshops each morning. Artist Rhona Byrne will lead two Summer camps for teens. IMMA Mediators will also be out and about talking to visitors about the artworks and items of interest in the gardens and grounds.

Friday 25 July – Night-time Banquet curated by Michelle Darmody with artist Mark Garry and chef Jessica Murphy of Kai in Galway taking place in the historic Great Hall, a unique setting for a sensory collision of food and art.

Saturday 26 July – The Garden Rising continues and includes a lunch banquet, curated by Michelle Darmody with artist Ruth Lyons and chef Giles Clark. The 18th century formal gardens will be alive with sounds as a series of free musical performances pop up in the lawns, with site responsive performances by Sean MacErlaine, The BQ Trio and Roland Gomez amongst others, Cake Café on the lawn, and look out for pickling workshops with The Rocket Man, fish smoking with Sally Barns, butter making with McNally Family Farm, an edible canvas workshop for children and open studios with our resident artists.

In the evening SUMMER RISING comes to an end with the Summer Party, the audience will be encouraged to explore the site with the galleries, formal gardens, historic Great Hall and Chapel all activated by the different programmes at stages of the night.

The night will include specially curated food and cocktails by House in Cork Opera House and Luncheonette, a specially commissioned edition of GRACELANDS, featuring artists’ film and interventions, DJ sets from Donal Dineen, David Kitt, Emmet Condon, 11:11 and the first Irish performance of Gang Colours.

Hélio Oiticica proposed with his work ways ‘of giving the individual the possibility to ‘experiment’ to no longer be the spectator and become the participant’, and it is in this spirit that IMMA invites you to be part of the SUMMER RISING – to taste, to listen, to look , to enjoy and most of all to take part.


All day-time activities free, tickets starting from €15.00 for food and night-time events. Full programme and ticket details will be available shortly. Visit www.imma.ie for further updates.

Supported by OPW Per Cent for Art Scheme

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Hélio Oiticica: Propositions
19 July – 5 October 2014

IMMA presents a major retrospective exhibition of the work of the internationally renowned Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (1937–1980). Propositions will include a succinct selection of works by Oiticica, including vital examples from throughout his prolific career with a view to illuminating his art historical importance and relevance to contemporary practice.

Oiticica was as an innovator of interactive and experiential artworks whose work has influenced many of the key contemporary artists working today. Audiences will be encouraged to engage, explore and participate in this colourful exhibition - visitors can try on his wearable ‘Parangolés’ and enjoy the fun of dressing up as a mobile sculpture.

The exhibition highlights Oiticica as an artist whose impulse to depart from the traditional conception of the artwork, with a constant urge for renewal and experimentation, was working significantly ahead of his time. A particular focus of this exhibition is the scripts and proposals, which were an important aspect of Oiticica’s practice. Works will be displayed which illustrate the artist’s driving conviction that colour and form should emancipate themselves from the surface into space and time, and that the integration of the viewer is intrinsic to the art experience.

Recent solo exhibitions include Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Colour and Space, MoCA, Los Angeles, CA (2010); Collecting a Poetic Universe, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX (2007) and Hélio Oiticica: The Body of Colour, Tate Modern, London (2007). Oiticica’s work has been included in the 2010, 1994, 1965 and 1957 São Paulo biennials. This exhibition is co-curated by César Oiticica Filho, nephew of the artist.

Image: Hélio Oiticica, Parangolé P4 Cape 1, 1964. Photo Sergio Zalis

For further information and images please contact Monica Cullinane or Patrice Molloy at Tel: +353 1 612 9900, Email: press@imma.ie

Irish Museum of Modern Art
Royal Hospital
An Bóthar Míleata, Kilmainham, Dublin 8, Éire
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Friday: 11.30am - 5.30pm
Saturday: 10.00am - 5.30pm
Sunday and Bank Holidays: 12noon - 5.30pm
Monday and Good Friday 18 April: Closed
Last Admission 5.15pm

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