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Upcoming:
Solo show
Catalyst Arts, Belfast
23 February - 17 March 2012
The Hellfire Club
Commission, group exhibition
Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Limerick
16 March - 31 July 2012
Solo Show
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
22 March - 21 April 2012
Current:
A Rocky Road
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
An exhibition curated by Sean Lynch
18 November 2011 - 14 January 2012
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invitation card, A Rocky Road
A Rocky Road is an exhibition investigating artistic production and its reception in Ireland. With an emphasis on the social realities that cultural invention has encountered in the country, several topics repeatedly arise: conservative reactions and protest to the growth of modern art, vandalism of artworks, and the newsworthy character of artists with their many creative ideas and schemes are all prominent.
Through existing artworks, artifacts, and new commissions, the exhibition considers the underlying attitudes of what could be termed an ‘aesthetics of reception.’ Public response and the subsequent afterlife of an artwork are considered as themes of enquiry, as relevant as the creative intentions that bring the artwork into being. Populist reaction to exhibits, media coverage and reactionary politics have often opposed various forms of artmaking in Ireland over the last forty years. By focusing on and gathering together a selection of these instances into a common heritage, they can be considered more than occasional oddities in the progress of history. Instead their presentation might be viewed as a recurring antagonism that evidences the challenges art has posed to the public realm and Irish society at large.
A new series of photographs, Enosis, by Gerard Byrne document an empty space where an Irish Pavilion for the Venice Biennale once was proposed to be built. John Carson’s A Bottle of Stout in Every Pub in Buncrana presents an artistic effort to obtain sponsorship from the Guinness brewery to distribute a poster about the consumption of alcohol. A new video by Nigel Rolfe reacts to a newspaper report of the 1970s of his sculptures being attacked in County Wexford. An overview is presented of alterations to and public controversy surrounding Eilis O’Connell’s The Great Wall of Kinsale, the largest sculpture in Ireland and the UK in 1987. Danny McCarthy sprinkles chalkdust erased from a Joseph Beuys blackboard after his lecture in 1974 around the gallery spaces of the Crawford. A collection of archival material from national broadcaster RTE charts the development of the formats in which art is presented on TV. Other presentations include a print by David Lilburn, the Tau Cross of Kilnaboy, Tim Rollins and KOS with Charles Haughey, the Irish Daily Mirror newspaper and the opinions of Pierre Restany.
John Carson, A Bottle of Stout in Every Pub in Buncrana
1978-9
Detail
Me Jewel & Darlin'
Public artwork, commissioned by Dublin City Council
O'Connell Street, Dublin
4 September 2011 - 31 January 2012
Me Jewel & Darlin’ is a public artwork on O’Connell Street, Dublin. Inside a display case positioned metres north of the Spire of Dublin, an exhibition programme showcases images and artefacts selected by artist Sean Lynch that evoke a variety of the city's artistic and social histories. Following displays of artworks by Harry Clarke and Danny McCarthy, the next presentation is unveiled in September 2011, consisting of a fragment of a tail light from a BMW car, found in a scrapyard in Clondalkin, west Dublin, earlier this year.
BMW 3 Series, Registration 92D38478, Tail light (section)
More information here
Previous:
Human/Nature: Topographic Photography from the State Art Collection
Farmleigh Gallery, Phoenix Park, Dublin
Group exhibition, catalogue
Curated by Davey Moor
27 October - 23 December 2011
Twenty
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Group exhibition, publication project
Curated by Enrique Juncosa
27 May - 31 October 2011
Artists: Orla Barry, Stephen Brandes, Nina Canell, Fergus Feehily,John Gerrard, David Godbold, Katie Holten, Paddy Jolley, Nevan Lahart, Sean Lynch,
Niamh McCann, Willie McKeown, Perry Ogden, Liam O'Callaghan,
Niamh O'Malley,Alan Phelan, Garrett Phelan, Eva Rothschild, Corban Walker.
Twenty at Irish Museum of Modern Art features a download of
DeLorean Progress Report, 2nd edition
DeLorean Progress Report, 2009-10, photograph
Convergence: Literary Art Exhibitions
Group exhibition
Curated by Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes
16 June - 5 August 2011: Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
15 August - 1 October 2011: Limerick City Gallery of Art
Artists: Julie Bacon, Ecke Bonk, Pavel Büchler, Davide Cascio, Tacita Dean,
Cerith Wyn Evans, Maria Fusco, Rodney Graham, Joanna Karolini, Sean Lynch, Simon Morris, Brian O’Doherty, Tim Rollins, Andrea Thei
The Reading Room at CNEAI, Paris
Centre National de l'Edition et de l'Art Imprimé, ParisThe Reading Room deliver a lecture/performance that presents a selection of publications, including those by Stephen Brandes, Peggy Buth, Sarah Browne, Wayne Daly, Christian Jankowski, Susanne Kriemann, Sean Lynch.
17 September 2011
The Second Act
de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
Photography festivalCurated by Chris Clarke
8 - 11 September 2011
“The older shop fronts of the Irish towns I sometimes see as the armorial bearings of imaginative knights forced by circumstance to don economic strait jackets!”
Public art project
Listowel, County Kerry
3 June – 27 August 2011
In summer 2011, The Maid of Erin premises re-opens in Listowel, Co Kerry, to function as an exhibition and study centre for the artworks of Pat McAuliffe. Prompted by the above 1971 quote by local writer Bryan MacMahon, the centre will consist of a collection of archival material, a reading area, a photographic display, workshop artefacts and an audio-visual presentation that all explore McAuliffe’s legacy in North Kerry and West Limerick. During the project, local painter and signwriter Freddy Chute will restore and repaint the facade which features one of McAuliffe’s most famous artworks, The Maid of Erin.
Pat McAuliffe lived and worked in Listowel from 1846 to 1921. In a career as a builder he applied exterior plaster, or stucco, upon shopfronts and townhouses. From the 1870s onwards he began to develop an ambitious and often exuberant style within the compositional framing of facades of everyday buildings in the region. In the streets of Listowel and Abbeyfeale, one can still a broad range of elements culled from the vocabulary of classical architecture and ornament along with an eclectic mix of art nouveau, Celtic and Byzantine styles. Over 35 buildings can be attributed to him. MacMahon, in typically poetic fashion, described him:
"In retrospect I see him quite clearly, great and black-bearded, his dark eyes alive under a cream-coloured straw hat. He came of an old-established family in the town. As a young man, Pat McAuliffe had in him a restless, imaginative streak that left him dissatisfied with the chores of plastering in an average Irish country town. After a span of run-of-the-mill work, he began, without any formal training in art, to experiment in casting in concrete in his little yard. These experiments gave him a new sense of power. Subsequently, when engaged to plaster the front of a house, he demanded a free hand with the design or else refused to execute the work."
All archival and research material will be freely reproduced and disseminated to the public. Detailed information on buildings where McAuliffe’s artworks are located will be available. Also, the centre will continue to pro-actively gather further information and material related to the town’s architecture and stuccowork traditions. It will open to the public Thursday and Friday, 2-6pm and Saturday 12-6pm, and by prior appointment.
Further info at The Stuccowork of Pat McAuliffe of Listowel
Room Outside
Group exhibition
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
28 July - 13 August 2011
Artists: Karin Brunnermeier, Oliver Comerford, Michelle Considine, Gary Coyle, Patrick Jolley, Nevan Lahart, Stephen Loughman, Sean Lynch, Paul McKinley, Tadhg McSweeney, Sinead Ni Mhaonaigh, Paul Nugent, Dermot Seymour, Ulrich Vogl
Volta 7, Basel
Art Fair with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery
13 - 18 June 2011
Two person exhibition with Gary Coyle
5 Carrer Del Mar, Portbou, installation view at Volta, Basel
Eurofest 2011
DeLorean Owners Association international convention
Lecture
Grand Ballroom, Europa Hotel, Belfast
26 May 2011, 7pm
MICROSTORIA
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Group exhibition
Curated by MA in Contemporary Art Theory students, Edinburgh College of Art
27 May - 25 June 2011
Artists: Matheieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Libia Castro & Olafur Olafsson, Oliver Laric, Sean Lynch, Rachel McLean, Alexandre Singh, Helene Sommer, Kristoffer Svenberg.
A Preliminary Study for the Reappearance of HyBrazil:
A Reproduction of a seachart, c1560. Courtesy National Library of Scotland
Me Jewel & Darlin'
Public artwork, commissioned by Dublin City Council
O'Connell Street, Dublin
Next presentation from April 2011: Danny McCarthy, One-Hundred Bottles for James Joyce.
Interview with Danny McCarthy here
Danny McCarthy, installation view at Me Jewel & Darlin'
Solo exhibition
The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim
8 April - 11 June 2011
In a solo exhibition at The Dock, Sean Lynch presents two artworks related to the Irish landscape. Working in a manner akin to a historian, Lynch’s projects reflect on the representation and methods of articulating idiosyncratic moments of the recent past. This process considers instances mostly eradicated from popular consciousness that yet exist through a disparate series of objects, events and narratives swaying between the anecdotal and objective-informative.
Since 2005 Lynch has been searching for the remains of a monument to Flann O’Brien in the Kerry Mountains. Initiated by a letter written to The Irish Times by JJ Toomey of Bishopstown, Cork, the artist has assembled a variety of material uncovered in an ongoing investigation. Most prominent is the story of Michael Kellett, who in May 1983 carried a bicycle up Carauntoohil, Ireland’s highest mountain. The bicycle subsequently formed part of a monument at the summit dedicated to O’Brien’s novel The Third Policeman. Lynch’s story unfolds in a slide projection and audio work in the gallery space, around a collection of interrelated photographs, archival documents and artefacts. Michael Kellett will be in attendance on the opening night.
Also included in the show is Latoon, a video about the preservation of a whitethorn bush from the construction of the M18 motorway in Clare. In 1999, folklorist and storyteller Eddie Lenihan campaigned to save the bush, claiming it was an important meeting place for supernatural forces of the region. He warned that its destruction would result in death and great misfortune for motorists travelling on the new road. Following media coverage on CNN and in The New York Times, Clare County Council changed the direction of the road away from the site. In 2006, Lenihan agreed to further explain the significance of the bush. As a camera crew arrives at Latoon, they encounter the construction of another road nearby, and the bush once more seems to be in danger…
Dear JJ, I read with interest...
Dear JJ, I read with interest..., detail from slide projection
Me Jewel & Darlin'
Public artwork, commissioned by Dublin City Council
O'Connell Street, Dublin
Curated by Aisling Prior
A sculpture, exhibition programme, and website project
commencing January 2011
Visual Artists Ireland Newssheet article
Me Jewel & Darlin', installation view, O'Connell Street, Dublin
Artists Curate: When Flanders Failed
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Group Exhibition
Curated by Stephen Brandes & The Institute of Special Afflictions
14 January - 27 February 2011
Artists: Maarten Baas, Deborah Browne, Bonnie Camplin, Charlie Hammond,
Sarah Iremonger, Gert Jan Kocken, Gene Lambert, Sean Lynch, Daniel MacDonald and Tony Millionaire.
Royal Hibernian Academy website
Never the Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts)
Camden Arts Centre, London
Group exhibitionCurated by Simon Starling
16 December 2010 – 20 February 2011Camden Arts Centre is delighted to present a new exhibition curated by British artist Simon Starling, the latest in a series of artist-selected shows.
Conflating works already exhibited at Camden Arts Centre during the past five decades, the works in Starling’s exhibition will be installed in the exact position they occupied the first time around. These fragments of the Centre’s history will be staged alongside new works by Sean Lynch, Michael Stevenson and Jeremy Millar, which represent an imagined prospective programme: the probable past and possible future of Camden Arts Centre momentarily coming together in an unstable present. Never The Same River will redeploy fragments of exhibitions such as Hampstead in the 30’s (1975), Photography into Art (1973), Environments Reversal (1969) as well as a number of previous artist-selected exhibitions.
Artists: Francis Alÿs, Francis Bacon, Christian Boltanski, Matthew Buckingham, Harry Burton, Tony Carter, Keith Coventry, Andrea Fisher, Stefan Gec, Ernö Goldfinger, Graham Gussin, Susan Hiller, Douglas Huebler, Des Hughes, ISOKON / Marcel Breuer, Patrick Keiller, Hilma af Klint, David Lamelas, Sean Lynch, Mary Martin, Jeremy Millar, Jacques Monory, Henry Moore, William Morris / Liberty & Co., Mike Nelson, John Riddy, Michael Stevenson, Katja Strunz, Paul Thek, Francis Upritchard.
DeLorean Progress Report: Sediment Profile Imaging of a DeLorean tooling press and a crab (Cancer pagurus), located 18 metres below sea level at 53.29938N & 9.76344W.
Epson digital print, 22 x 32cm, edition of 3, available from Camden Arts Centre
Residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
September – December 2010
Events in the LandscapeScreening
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, 25 November 2010
Mains d'Oeuvres, St Ouen, 11 December 2010.
Curated by Caroline Hancock.
Artists: Willie Doherty, Seamus Harahan, Jaki Irvine, Sean Lynch, Anne Tallentire, Grace Weir.
It Happened That
St Paul St Gallery, Auckland
Group exhibition
Curated by Charlotte Huddleston.
Artists: Christian Capurro, Maddie Leach, Sean Lynch, Sriwhana Spong
1 - 29 October 2010
Lecture by Sean Lynch on Saturday, October 2 at 2pm
The Dublin Review
Essay by Kevin Barry entitled DeLorean redux
Appears in the Dublin Review, issue 39, Summer 2010
Read the essay here at the Dublin Review website
Lost and Found
neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Group exhibition
Linienstrasse 155, Berlin
April 30 - May 29, 2010
Artists: Franz Ackerman, Pawel Althamer, Lothar Baumgarten, Nina Beier, James Benning, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Mark Dion, Jimmie Durham, Pierre Huyghe, Louise Lawler, Sharon Lockhart, Sean Lynch, Mike Nelson, Jorge Pardo, Manfred Pernice, Simon Starling, Mario Garcia Torres, Danh Vo, Ai Weiwei
DeLorean Progress Report
Other Project Space,Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
May 10 - June 10 2010
curated by Oliver Heinzenberger and Shane Munro
DeLorean Progress Report, installation view
Peregrine Falcons Visit Moyross
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
April 15 - May 15 2010
Artists talk on Saturday May 8 at noon
review by Matt Packer in Enclave Review
Peregrine Falcons Visit Moyross, installation view
The Happy Hypocrite–A Rather Large Weapon, issue 4
Edited by Maria FuscoPublished by Bookworks, London
The Happy Hypocrite is a biannual journal led by artists’ writings.
Contributors: Bernadette Buckley, Jeff Derksen, Candice Hopkins, Anthony Iles, Daniel Kane, Yve Lomax, Robert Longo, Sean Lynch, Laura Oldfield Ford, Luke Pendrell, Rachelle Sawatsky, Mark von Schlegell, Natasha Soobramanien and Nick Thurston.
DeLorean Progress Report
Solo exhibition at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
January 7 - 29 2010
A public conversation with art critic Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith will take place in the gallery on Saturday January 23rd at 12pm.
DeLorean Progress Report, photograph
Retrieval Unit
exhibition catalogue
Essay: Gemma Tipton
Interview with Mike FitzpatrickPublished by Limerick City Art Gallery to coincide with a solo exhibition, 2007
Now available to download here
