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Cork
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Mullarney and Yamamoto
dal 31/10/2002 al 30/11/2002
00 353 (0) 21 4273377 FAX 00 353 (0) 21 4805043

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Anne Boddaert



 
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31/10/2002

Mullarney and Yamamoto

Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

Shinji Yamamoto, a young Japanese artist who lives and works in Italy. Janet Mullarney is an Irish Sculptor based in Milan.


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Shinji Yamamoto
Blue Gold

November 1 - November 30

Shinji Yamamoto, a young Japanese artist who lives and works in Italy, is unveiling his first solo exhibition in Ireland at the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery. The installation, entitled "Blue gold" from a term coined by economists to indicate fresh drinkable water, was conceived especially for the gallery in Cork.

Water is the inspirational element for the artist's production in recent years: landscapes of marble dust, photographs, video works, and recent paintings in gold and silver. "Blue gold" emerges from the continuation and deeper aesthetic and formal reflection on the installation inside a ruined tower near Roches Point (East Cork), created by the artist in 2000 during his residency at Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes.
"Blue gold" is wholly based on symmetry as the cosmic generating force. The artist has taken up an esoteric exploration, weaving in and out of the museum's columns, on which he has hung the "Specula," stiacciato (very low relief sculpture-paintings) in gold leaf that reinterpret the Byzantine and Renaissance tradition in a contemporary register. The spectator enters into a sort of hieratic space, through double portals where the paintings, map-mirrors from which archipelagos of gold drops emerge on the surface, are non-places reflecting the world in a non-hierarchical fashion, turning it upside down and fragmenting it.
Past the columns, the spectator catches a glimpse of "AQUA, the voices of landscape", two specular video projections created by manipulating a series of videos shot on the installation "AQUA, omphalos", at Roches Tower. In the video, enormous lips narrate a slow cosmogony where water constantly changes shape and colour, palpitating and generating new beings that emerge and fluctuate like pale reflections beyond the brink.
A publication with a selection of photographs of the Roches Tower installation taken by the artist, and text by Roberto Daolio is available.

SHINJI YAMAMOTO was born in Osaka in 1965. In 1991, he gained a degree in painting (fresco) from the Kyoto City University of Arts. A year later, Yamamoto was granted a scholarship to the Fine Arts Academy in Bologna, sponsored by the Italian government, and moved to Italy. Since 1997, he has been exhibiting his works in Italy and abroad.
In 1999, Yamamoto won the Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes competition and the following year, won first prize at the international Targetti Art Light Collection. Recently, Yamamoto has earned the UNESCO-ASCHBERG Bursaries for Artists for a residency in India.


Image: a work by Shinji Yamamoto
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Janet Mullarney
The Bermuda Triangle

November 1 - November 30



Janet Mullarney is an Irish Sculptor based in Milan. She has
exhibited extensively in both countries.
The Crawford Municipal Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition
of her work in the Upper Gallery Wing.

Recent residencies in both Mexico and Ireland have informed the
nature of her work and its relation to space. An exploratory variety
of media is used to construct her works of haunting presence and psychological implication.

"Small Mexican chairs, just the right size for sitting neatly and
waiting patiently. Strait-jackets for children, offered delicately
and lovingly as an inevitable gift for life.
Ritual and repetition mimic Etruscan burial sites and the whitewash
regenerates them. References to curious customs and a variety of
materials are used as homage to the human condition." (J.Mullarney)

This "Bermuda Triangle" originated in Cobh Sirius Project 2000,
embodied itself in Mexico at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Oaxaca
in 2001, and opens in Cork on the "Cabalistic" day of the 31st
October 2002.


Opening hours: Monday - Saturday 10am-5pm (Admission Free). Full
wheelchair access.

For more details and visuals please contact:

Anne Boddaert (Exhibitions Officer)
Crawford Municipal Art Gallery
Emmet Place
Cork, Ireland
T:+353 (0) 21 4273377 (ext.227)
F:+353 (0) 21 480504



Crawford Municipal Art Gallery
Emmet Place
Cork
Ireland
Tel: 00 353 (0) 21 4273377
fax: 00 353 (0) 21 4805043

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