MOVING DUBLIN | CONNOLLY CLEARY @ Broadcast Gallery

UPCOMING EXHIBITION

Anne Cleary & Denis Connolly

MOVING DUBLIN





Opening

Thursday April 23


5pm - PUBLIC TALK with Helen Carey, Mockingbird Arts.



5.45-8pm - BOOK LAUNCH and EXHIBITION PREVIEW



The exhibition runs from

April 24- June 15 2009

Thursday 11 am-8pm

Fri/Sat 11 am-4pm

or by appointment 00 353 1 4024188



Download Press release PDF



MOVING DUBLIN is commissioned under

South Dublin County Council's

IN CONTEXT 3

Per Cent for Art Programme.

UPCOMING EXHIBITION

Anne Cleary & Denis Connolly MOVING DUBLIN






Still from Moving Dublin

MOVING DUBLIN is the premiere of a major new work; at once a filmic essay
about contemporary Dublin, and a collection of photographs,
essays and video works beautifully produced in a new hard
cover edition.

For two years Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly moved around
Dublin in every way possible : by car, taxi, bus, train, tram, bicycle and
on foot. They met scores of Dubliners, and recorded dozens of personal
accounts of moving through the city. They amassed a treasure trove of
documents: video, photographs, interviews, sounds, stories. The result
is Moving Dublin; a road movie, a picture book, and many other
things. Above all Moving Dublin is a homage to the city that Lady
Morgan once called her dear dirty Dublin.”

“A million everyday journeys course through the veins of Dublin,
giving it life (or poisoning it?). These journeys range in scale and
rhythm from the incessant flow of motorway traffic through the familiar
trundling of a local bus journey right down to an early morning stroll
around the block with the dog. This profusion of intersecting paths
gives the place its form, carving roads, highways and public spaces. The
impact of these journeys transforms lives, changes the face of the city,
and resonates on a planetary level." Cleary/Connolly April 2009

Still from Moving Dublin

Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly both studied architecture
in Dublin in the 1980s, before moving to Paris in 1990. After
a lengthy collaboration with the French urban theorist
Bernard Huet in the early 1990s, they developed a long-lasting
interest in the filmed city. From 1999 to 2005 they produced a
large-scale multimedia project, The Boulevard, inspired by the
urban environment in which they live. Their work has been
exhibited worldwide and has received several international
awards. In 2006 they created a series of interactive video works,
for Limerick City Gallery of Art. This project evolved into
Pourquoi pas Toi?, a major solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou
in Paris in 2008. They were awarded a two year residency by
South Dublin County in December 2006, through which Moving
Dublin was produced.

Still from Moving Dublin



For further information go to Cleary Connolly Website or visit Broadcast's Website

In Limbo Press

Following are images from the opening night of the current "In Limbo" show by artist Mariusz Soltysik.

All Installation shots courtesy the Artist.

Mariusz was also interviewed by Zbyszek Zalinski for RTÉ Radio 1's The Arts

http://www.rte.ie/arts/2009/0219/theartsshow.html

Broadcast In Limbo

MARIUSZ SOLTYSIK

in Limbo

Preview:

12th February 2009 18.00 – 20.00

Exhibition Times:

13^th of February to 2nd of April 2009

Thursdays 13.00-20.00 Fridays 11.00 – 16.00 Saturdays 11.00 – 16.00

Or by appointment. Tel – 00 353 1 4024188

In Limbo Mariusz Soltysik’s first solo show in Dublin is composed of three elements: drawings, sculpture and video. While each of these elements offer an individual reading they also convey a single thematic unity.

The drawings entitled A Theory of Inflatable Universes, or What Can Be Seen in Bubble Bath… have a dual function. On the one hand they reference the theory, formulated by Alan Guth and developed by Andriey Linde, of an early model of the universe, one that leads to the formation of what we understand today. On the other hand, they can be seen as an event one can observe in the bath tub. Through their elaborate form they constitute a kind of meditation on the course of creation, the multiplicity of theories and their inherent weaknesses. The series is both a tribute to great creators and geniuses and to their inability to fully explain phenomena.

The sculpture titled Vague Astronaut, or How to Get Lost (In Outer Space) is a tragic figure, alone and looking out to the sky, anxiously considering his sense of being lost. This is a reference to the state of affairs in our civilization acknowledging the current global crisis and aspects of faith and science. Like contemporary man, the figure is semi-transparent, indistinct, vague.

The video element places a focus on time. Broken-up pictures in slow motion suggest a direction of time that we basically do not know. Time is highlighted as an element we can only virtually control.

Through the work’s theme and name all three elements indirectly allude to the fact that the gallery space was once a convent building. In a nuanced reading Soltysik draws on Immanuel Kant’s statement: “I have to deny knowledge to make room for faith”.

Mariusz Soltysik lives and works in Lodz, Poland. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Lodz and Mons, Belgium. He exhibits regularly in Poland and has shown in Germany, Ireland, Italy, USA, India and Australia. Soltysik lectures at the Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz and was curator of the CamouFlash events in Lodz, Poland 2007, Dresden, Germany and in Poznan during the Mediation Biennale 2008.

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