CENTRE CULTUREL IRLANDAIS :

BARRIE COOKE
Selection of works from the retrospective exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2011

3 February - 15 March 12
Vernissage 2 February 12, 18.30-20.00
admission free
Closed on 8 and 9 March 12

A major figure in the development of painting in Ireland,Barrie Cooke has been resident there since 1954. Spanning a career of more than five decades, this exhibition includes large paintings and sculptural work that reveal his fascination with the infinite variety and flux of nature, as well as with the nude figure. A passionate fisherman, his concern with water is based on its elemental qualities yet the horrific beauty of polluted environments is irresistible. Cooke’s palette is rich, at times explosive; colour, he says, can be the closest equivalent you can find to an emotion, a catalyst for beginning a painting. He has collaborated with prominent poets Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and John Montague who will open this exhibition.

This exhibition is co-produced by the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.

16 February 12 - 19.30, admission free,

reservation recommended, in English

A Connemara Folio - Donald Teskey RHA

Donald Teskey is one of a number of eminent contemporary artists invited by Occasional Press, in collaboration with Ballinahinch Castle, to take the Castle as their starting-point for a visual exploration of the surrounding Connemara landscape. The resulting series of publications presents visual evidence of the artists’ encounters and gives us new insight into this wild terrain that famously tempts and exasperates painters, as noted by Irish Times art critic Aidan Dunne. Compelling and beautiful, the light in Connemara is quicksilver and never settles; water is simply everywhere. A painter well-known for his coastlines, Donald Teskey was evidently in his element. Together with artists David Lilburn and Jim Savage, founders of Occasional Press, he will present A Connemara Folio.

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