Exhibition Programme Archive 2004
Stitches in Time
Exhibition 6 March — 9 May 2004
A major exhibition of new work by Louise Bourgeois, one of the greatest and most influential artists of our time. The exhibition includes a group of extraordinary life-size sewn fabric busts, several cell-like vitrines housing scenes of torture and ecstasy, totemic figures which reinterpret in fabric some of Bourgeois’s very first sculptures from the 1940s and 1950s, and two major suites of etchings.
Tough and sometimes very moving, Bourgeois’s recent work marks out an artist who, although in her 90s, remains at the height of her powers.
Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time is produced and organised by the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Co-curated by Frances Morris, Senior Curator, Tate Modern and Brenda McParland, Senior Curator, Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Downloads:
• Exhibition guide
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• Publication
• DVD 12 mins
Nathan Coley
Exhibition 2 May — 18 July 2004
Nathan Coley (born in Glasgow in 1967) is an artist whose work questions the way in which the values of a society are reflected in its architecture. His work is based around an interest in public space, and addresses issues such as the importance of place, the social value of architecture and the meaning and relevance of contemporary monuments. Coley has become known for works of public sculpture, yet this is only one part of his practice. This exhibition concentrates on work intended to explore ideas from the built environment in the context of the gallery. Research motivates Coley’s practice; he is an ideas-driven artist whose methods include site visits, archival research, interviews and extensive photographic documentation. The works in this exhibition exemplify the range of media he uses in his work, including sculpture, photography, drawing, video, installation and an artwork that takes the form of a book.
Downloads:
• Exhibition guide
Available from the bookshop:
• Publication
• DVD 12 mins
• Poster
Fred Tomaselli
Monsters of Paradise
Exhibition 31 July — 3 Oct 2004
Fred Tomselli was born in Santa Monica in 1956 and came of age, as he puts it, in the California of the 1970s – ‘basically the 1960s with birth defects – a mutant excess of PCP1 and arena rock’. Drugs and music have remained important to him throughout his career, as material for collage and fuel for the imagination (respectively), but a move to Brooklyn in 1985 encouraged him to try to make a different kind of sense of the world through making art. The art Tomaselli makes is predominantly collage, although he tends to describe the products of his activity as paintings. If he paints, it is with famously unusual materials – pills, flowers, leaves, insects, cut-out magazine photographs of all of the aforementioned things plus an assortment of body parts, epoxy resin and paint. The artist believes that the materials he uses ‘are all interchangeable, all capable of manipulating reality in a perpetual, hazardless potentiality’. In making paintings with them, his stated aim is ‘to seduce and transport the viewer […] while simultaneously revealing the mechanics of that seduction’. The exhibition Fred Tomaselli: Monsters of Paradise presents five years of the artist’s practice, from 1999 to now.
Downloads:
• Exhibition guide
Available from the bookshop:
• Publication (sold out)
• Limited edition print (sold out)
• DVD 12 mins
• Poster
• Postcards
Somewhere, Everywhere, Nowhere:
Collections sans Frontiéres III
Exhibition 16 October — 28 November 2004
This exhibition brings together a wide range of photography, video, painting and sculpture to explore notions of place, space and context, from landscapes to interiors. Selected from five French collections, the ‘FRACs du Grand Est’, it is presented simultaneously at The Fruitmarket Gallery and Dundee contemporary Art in the first ever collaboration between the two institutions.
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• Exhibition guide
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• Publication
Ellen Gallagher
Orbus
Exhibition 11 December 2004 — 13 February 2005
This exhibition, selected in close collaboration with the artist, brings together a wide range of work which reflects both the diversity and the consistency of her practice. Whether making marks directly on to the Gallery walls, building paintings by weaving together archival material culled from vintage magazines carving imaginative sea-creatures out of watercolour paper or making small-scale 16mm film
animations, Ellen Gallagher thinks and speaks of her work in terms of form in motion.
Downloads:
• Exhibition guide
Available from the bookshop:
• Publication (Designed by Irma Boom)
• Postcards
• Poster
