Still life with...
4 June - 20 August 2010
Anne Cleary & Denis Connolly
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Opening at the
The exhibition will run from 4 June - 20 August 2010.
Limerick City Gallery of Art is pleased to announce the AIB Prize 2009 exhibition by Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly opening at the
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The project is inspired by Patrick Hennessy’s magnificent Still life painting from the permanent collection of Limerick City Gallery of Art. Still life with... reconstructs the original Still life as a 3-dimensional set, inviting you to step right into the painting. It provides a meeting place for pixels and pigments, for moving and fixed images, for shimmering light and hard matter, for young and old. Depending on the visitor’s reaction, the exhibition can be a drawing exercise, a performance, a dialogue between old and new, a reflection on pictorial space... or simply a game.
Still life with... is a space into which the viewer can step—to be part of this three-dimensional exploration of painting currently under construction in
Every year The AIB Prize identifies emerging Irish visual artists and helps them launch their career through the staging of a showcase exhibition in a publicly funded venue. Winners of the AIB Prize 2009, the artists hope—through this ground-breaking project—to push the boundaries of educational models for cultural projects, and so the choice of working with student teachers was a judicious one. The project will impact not only on the young people directly involved, but will resonate on future generations of children through the experiences and confidence gained by their teachers in working with contemporary art. Once installed, Still life with... is as much about what moves as what is still. The interactive video projections study moving bodies - people - and how they interact with the still objects of the installation. Meanwhile easels invite visitors who might prefer a more traditional approach to take up a pencil and draw their own still life.
Limerick City Council, Istabraq Hall
A selection of video works dating from 1998 to 2010 will be exhibited at Limerick City Council, Istabraq Hall on Merchants Quay including the award-winning Scenes from the Boulevard (2002), a mixture of real life documentary, performance, choreography and experimentation. Shot from the fifth floor of a Parisian apartment block, the artists consider the world below as the set for a series of scenes to be played out, exploring that fuzzy line between fiction and reality. Also exhibited are extracts from Touchy (1998), Natures Construites (2007) and a selection of videos and photographs from Moving Dublin (2009). “It’s not about one person, but a plethora of people stitched together. It is full of that sort of truth about how we are as a flawed, miserable, attractive, funny people.” (Eamon Ryan, TD, 2009)
Visitors to
Award winning Irish artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly live and work in
Recent solo exhibitions include: Pourquoi pas toi at the Pompidou Centre; Moving Dublin at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in
Recent group exhibitions include: Sombras e Luz, Sesc Pompéia,
See also: www.gallery.limerick.ie or www.connolly-cleary.com/Home/still_life_with
The Hunt Museum
Phone +353 61 312833
Email: education@huntmuseum.com
Opening hours Monday- Saturday 10.00-5.00, Sunday 2.00-5.00
Limerick City Council, Istabraq Hall
Merchants Quay, Limerick, Ireland
Phone +353 61 310633
Email: artgallery@limerickcity.ie
Opening hours Monday-Friday 9.30-5.30
Still life with...Events at the Hunt Museum
All bookings to the Hunt Museum education@huntmuseum.com
Thursday 3 June, 7pm
Opening reception
Friday 4 June, 1pm
Artist’s talk with Anne Cleary in the Captain’s Room
Saturday 19 June, 1pm
Still Life with... a historical survey
Lecture with Karolina Badzmierowska and Marietheres Schulze
Saturday 10 July, 11.30am-1pm
Still Life with...
Family Movement workshop with dancer Cindy Cummings
Saturday 10 July, 2.30pm-3.30pm
Dance improvisation performance with Cindy Cummings followed by artists’ talk with Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly
The Limerick City Gallery of Art acknowledges the financial support of AIB prize 2009 and the Arts Council in making this exhibition possible. Still life with… is in partnership with The Hunt Museum and Mary Immaculate College at the University of Limerick.
