| Exhibitions: Temporary Programme | | | | historical and contextual thread of the exhibition. |
| The temporary exhibitions programme got underway | | | | Exhibitions: What Happens Next is a Secret and |
| with exhibitions by Cuban-American Jorge Pardo and | | | | Altered Images |
| Irish artist Anne Tallentire which continue until 3 May. | | | | Another Collection exhibition, entitled What happens |
| Widely regarded as one of the most inventive artists | | | | next is a secret, runs until 18 April. This addresses the |
| of his generation, Pardo follows his participation in | | | | intriguing question of what happens when works |
| IMMA's 2006 Lunar Reggae show with an exploration | | | | become part of a collection and are subsequently |
| of the place of art within new media. His highly | | | | shown in different contexts. During the course of the |
| conceptual virtual retrospective takes the form of | | | | exhibition works will be removed, pointing to the often |
| photomural wallpaper, covering the entire gallery space | | | | hidden nature of museum collections, while |
| and incorporating every aspect of the exhibition. Anne | | | | replacements will create new associations. Works |
| Tallentire, much praised for the originality of her work, | | | | from the Collection are also featured in Altered |
| presents recent projects and related pieces focusing | | | | Images, which aims to stimulate engagement with the |
| on how the ordering, or disordering, of things can | | | | visual arts by the general public and particularly by |
| signify everyday social and cultural determinants. | | | | those with disabilities. A joint project between Mayo |
| Juxtaposing action, object and image she employs a | | | | County Council, South Tipperary County Council and |
| range of media from text to photography and film. The | | | | the Irish Museum of Modern Art, as part of the |
| exhibition includes a number of collaborative projects, | | | | Museum's National Programme, the exhibition has |
| another regular feature of Tallentire's work. | | | | already met with an extremely positive response |
| Exhibition: Francis Alys | | | | when shown in Clonmel and Ballina in 2009. Meanwhile, |
| An exhibition by leading Belgian-born experimental artist | | | | the carefully-planned growth in the Collection continues |
| Francis Alys continues until 23 May, inspired by his | | | | with the acquisition in 2009 of 52 prints by the |
| personal observations from the many cities to which | | | | celebrated American-born artist Mary Farl Powers, |
| his compulsive wanderings have taken him. Alys works | | | | generously donated by the artist's family, and other |
| in a variety of media, and at IMMA presents his major | | | | donated works, including those by Lynda Benglis, Alan |
| series of paintings, Le Temps du Sommeil, which now | | | | Phelan and a joint work by Seamus Heaney and Felim |
| numbers 111 works; some still being works in progress. | | | | Egan. |
| The series travels to Tate Modern in June, the first | | | | Exhibitions: Personal Collection of Brian O'Doherty and |
| stage in a major international retrospective of Alys's | | | | Barbara Novak |
| work. | | | | This most welcome trend continues in 2010 with the |
| Exhibition: Vertical Thoughts | | | | gift of several works from the personal collection of |
| Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts From 31 March | | | | artist Brian O'Doherty and art theorist Barbara Novak. |
| the exhibition Vertical Thoughts focuses on the work | | | | The collection ranges across American art of the 20th |
| of the influential 20th-century American composer | | | | century, particularly that of the 1960s and ‘70s, and |
| Morton Feldman and the many celebrated visual artists | | | | includes the work of such celebrated artists as |
| with whom he was closely associated. In 1967 | | | | Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns and Robert |
| Feldman curated an exhibition entitled Six Painters in | | | | Rauschenberg. An exhibition from the collection will |
| Houston, Texas, and Vertical Thoughts takes its | | | | open on 8 September. A further gift of some 30 fine |
| inspiration from that, presenting the work of such | | | | art prints by the Graphic Studio Dublin, being made to |
| legendary figures as Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Willem | | | | mark the studio's 50th anniversary, will also be |
| de Kooning, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, Mark | | | | celebrated with an exhibition, again opening on 8 |
| Rothko and many others not featured in the 1967 | | | | September, highlighting the role of fine art printing in the |
| show. The exhibition also includes music scores, record | | | | development of Contemporary Irish art. |
| covers, photographs and documents, as well as | | | | Loans from the Collection |
| Oriental rugs, which influenced the composer's work. A | | | | From 14 January to 27 February William Hogarth's |
| film and music programme will accompany the | | | | famous prints, A Harlot's Progress, from the Madden |
| exhibition. | | | | Arnholz Collection at IMMA, are being shown as part |
| Exhibitions: Carlos Caraicoa and Ferran Garcia Sevilla | | | | of City of Women, at The Lab, Foley Street, Dublin. |
| The Latin flavour continues on 9 June with exhibitions | | | | Loans from the Collection will also travel to the Aldrich |
| by Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa and Spanish painter | | | | Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut; |
| Ferran Garcia Sevilla. Employing a multi-disciplinary | | | | the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer |
| approach embracing architecture, narrative, history, and | | | | Museum, Los Angeles; the Musée de la Ville de |
| politics, Carlos Garaicoa uses his native city of Havana | | | | Strasbourg and the Sprengel Museum, Hannover. |
| as a laboratory to construct provocative | | | | Meanwhile, the five-year loan of 22 works by Irish |
| commentaries on a range of contemporary issues. | | | | artists to the Irish Embassy in The Hague continues |
| These include architecture's ability to alter the course | | | | until 2012. |
| of history, the failure of modernism as a catalyst for | | | | National Programme Exhibitions |
| social change and the decay of 20th-century utopias. | | | | In addition to the exhibitions at IMMA, the Collection will |
| Ferran García Sevilla's eclectic style draws on his | | | | also be shown in a number of arts centres and other |
| world travels, and on comic books, urban graffiti, | | | | locations around Ireland, as part of IMMA's National |
| philosophy and Eastern cultures, resulting in sensuous | | | | Programme, an area in which the Museum has led the |
| open spaces in which everything, including iconography | | | | way as a truly national institution over the past 13 |
| and ideas, blends together. His raw, colorful, primitive | | | | years. In April an exhibition of work from the Weltkunst |
| canvases are often peppered with caustic, | | | | Collection on loan to IMMA since 1994 takes place at |
| hand-scrawled commentaries on life and politics. | | | | the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. This significant |
| Collection Exhibitions at The Irish Museum of Modern | | | | collection of British sculpture and drawings of the 1980s |
| Art | | | | and ‘90s will return to the Weltkunst Foundation in |
| The Museum's Collection takes centre stage from 20 | | | | 2010 and this will be the last showing of works from |
| October, when all of the galleries will be devoted to the | | | | this collection. In 2010 the programme will continue to |
| first of a two-part exhibition of works from IMMA's | | | | develop its commissioning strand by supporting artists' |
| own Collection. This will be the first time that the entire | | | | interventions in response to exhibitions such as |
| Museum has been given over to the Collection, in an | | | | Drawing: A performative action at the Cavan County |
| ambitious project leading up to and continuing into | | | | Museum taking place in November. Exploring the |
| IMMA's 20th anniversary year in 2011. Part one of the | | | | physical nature of drawing the exhibition will include |
| exhibition, entitled, The Moderns, will trace important | | | | work from the IMMA Collection in a variety of media |
| artistic events and developments from the early 1900s | | | | from traditional works on paper to performance work. |
| to the 1970s, presenting some 100 artists through | | | | Further projects with County Arts Offices will also be |
| approximately 250 works. In addition, key pieces from | | | | much in evidence in the coming year. |
| other public and private collections will help to form the | | | | |