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16/7/2004

Responding to the land

Burren College of Art, Co Clare

An exhibition of works from the IMMA Collection at Burren College of Art

An exhibition of work from the Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art opens to the public at the Burren College of Art in Co Clare, on Saturday 17 July 2004 as part of the college's 10th anniversary celebrations. Responding to the land includes a film work by Irish artist Clare Langan and an installation by American artist Lawrence Weiner.

The Burren College of Art is internationally recognised as a not-for-profit, independent college specialising in fine art education at undergraduate and graduate level. The College offers artists and students from around the world time, space and inspiration within the unique environment of the Burren. The Master of Fine Arts programme is accredited by the National University of Ireland, Galway, and operated in association with the Royal College of Art, London, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They also recruit internationally for their undergraduate study abroad programmes, summer school and artist residency scheme.

(...) WATER & SAND + STICKS & STONES (...) by Lawrence Weiner was originally installed in the East Arch of the Royal Hospital in 1993 as part of the exhibition Projects. The work is currently shown in another configuration, on the first floor landing of the Museum in Bearings an exhibition of landscapes from the IMMA Collection and will be exhibited in the Burren College in a similar format. A leading pioneer of Conceptual art in America in the late 60s and early 70s, Weiner's work is concerned with language and the way meaning is carried in words, signs, symbols and codes. Exhibiting internationally for the past 25 years the artist has made artists' books, posters, postcards and textual installations.

Clare Langan's film work, Forty Below, was shot in the bleak landscapes of the Burren in Co Clare and Iceland. Langan stated that she filmed in both these locations because 'I'm drawn to barren landscapes more than the wooded areas of Ireland. It was a natural progression to go from Ireland to Iceland as the Icelandic landscape is quite similar to the Burren." Forty Below depicts a world where the delicate balance has been upturned. There appears to have been a flood and the familiar world is now submerged in water. We see a destroyed world fossilised, frozen in time, the evidence of human life suggested vaguely in a single isolated figure. There is a weightlessness a sense of gravity, where time and place merge, the division between earth and sky become unclear.

The National Programme is designed to create access opportunities to the visual arts in a variety of situations and locations in Ireland. Using the Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and exhibitions generated by the Museum, the National Programme facilitates the creation of exhibitions and other projects for display in a range of locations around the country.

The exhibition will be officially opened by Catherine Marshall, Senior Curator: Head of Collections, IMMA, on 17 July at 3.30pm.

Responding to the land continues until 31 July at the Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Co Clare. The Burren College of Art is open Monday to Friday 9.30am to 4.30pm.

For further information and colour images please contact Monica Cullinane or Patrice Molloy at Tel : +353 1 612 9900, Fax : +353 1 612 9999

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Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Co Clare

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