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Irish Museum of Modern Art to explore connections between art and science.
Dorothy Cross, Parachute, 2005, Dimensions variable, Parachute and gannet, Purchase, 2005, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art
An exhibition exploring connections between art and science will mark the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s first presence in a city centre location - the National Concert Hall (NCH) in Earlsfort Terrace. The building’s history as a medical school has inspired a new exhibition from IMMA’s Collection, Time out of Mind, curated as an open composition that will allow multiple readings and experiences.
However, it will particularly engage with the theme of science in celebration of Dublin City of Science 2012. The exhibition and programme will create a lense through which to explore the connections between art and science. Some 35 works mainly from the IMMA Collection go on show in the Museum’s temporary exhibition spaces at the National Concert Hall site in Earlsfort Terrace on Thursday 31 May 2012.
Time out of Mind focuses on the many and varied ways in which artists have engaged with ideas about time, memory, space, perception, change and similar concepts. The exhibition is being organised in celebration of Dublin City of Science 2012. IMMA’s inaugural programme at the NCH also includes a striking film project by the Albanian artist Anri Sala and the American composer Ari Benjamin Meyers, inspired by the siege of Sarajevo, which is being shown in the nearby Annex
Time out of Mind brings together the work of 27 leading Irish and international artists, mainly in works created from the 1990s onwards. These include Lynda Benglis, Dorothy Cross, Michael Craig-Martin, Marcel Duchamp, Barry Flanagan, Isaac Julien, Cristina Iglesias, Callum Innes, William McKeown, Elizabeth Magill, Eva Rothschild, Grace Weir and Daphne Wright.
Installed in the 14 galleries on the ground floor of the North Wing of the NCH building, the exhibition responds to the various cultural and intellectual layers of Earlsfort Terrace, in particular the building’s former scientific function as part of the National University’s Medical School.
To find out more about the exhibition please see here
Art + Science Seminar
To coincide with the exhibition, the first in a series of public seminars entitled ART + will explore the subject of collaboration between art and science on Tuesday 10 July 2012 at Earlsfort Terrace.
This includes a keynote address by Siân Ede, Arts Director of the Gulbenkian Foundation, followed by a discussion with panel speakers including Dorothy Cross and Tom Cross, Marie Redmond from Creative Technologies at Trinity College, Michael John Gorman, Director of the Science Gallery, and Mick Wilson, GRADCAM Fellow at NCAD.
