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Pop Politics

PHIL COLLINS Everyone's connected in an economy. Money and luxury and space and certain advantages separate everybody continually in any economy, in any country. But when economies are as acutely distorted as they are in the times that we're living through, it means that often those connections are severed. That it's impossible for us to hear each other or make contact with each other. Well, not impossible. But difficult.

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We wish all our colleagues and friends a joyful holiday season and a peaceful and prosperous 2015. 

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Facebook is blue; Earth is blue when viewed from outer space. Blue is the colour of romanticism and of melancholy. Over 80 percent of the western population chooses blue as their favourite colour. Conservative parties prefer blue; Margret Thatcher’s blue outfits are legendary. 

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Kerlin Gallery is pleased to announce View, an exhibition of new work by Dorothy Cross. 

Opening reception: Thursday 4 September 2014, 6-8pm

Exhibition running: 5 September to 18 October 2014

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The Model is excited to present a major survey show by Irish contemporary artist Mark Garry from February to April 2014. This will be the first time that a range of works drawn from Garry’s diverse and distinctive practice will be presented in a comprehensive solo exhibition. 

Music is fundamental to Mark’s practice. He has released three musical recordings that emerged from musical collaborations, including the critically acclaimed “Sending letters to the sea.” Mark has performed as part of these musical collectives in a number of national and international art venues including The Irish Museum Of Modern Art, The Mattress Factory Art Museum in Pittsburgh and the Serpentine Gallery in London.

As part of Mark’s solo show and with your help we will produce an ambitious collaborative limited edition vinyl and a beautifully designed publication that documents Mark’s work.

The recording will see Mark bring the collaborators involved in “Sending Letters to the Sea“ together with local musicians. Musicians will include Karl Burke, Nina Hynes, Sean Carpio, Eileen Carpio and the remarkable Robert Stilman while acclaimed French producer Fabien Leseure will engineer the recording.

We will transform one of the spaces at the Model for the recording which we will release on vinyl and in digital formats. 

“My musical collaborations involve my creating a situation where a group of remarkable artists from quite disparate backgrounds come together and gift there skills and experience in a remarkably generous and selfless way and I think the recordings and outcomes of these projects reflect this energy.

I really like that, after the exhibition has closed these musical recordings can continue to be shared and experienced. Collaboration plays a really big part in my process of working and this fund it offers the opportunity for a large number of people to be a collaborator in making this new work a possibility.“ -Mark Garry

On the occasion of the exhibition, The Model will publish a book that will document all aspects of Garry’s practice. A number of leading young international writers including Anna Lovett and Caroline Hancock will be commissioned to write critical texts and the book will be produced by the award winning design studio Atelier David Smith. 

Mark Garry is one of Irelands leading contemporary artists and has held exhibitions at prestigious art venues in Europe and North America, Australia and Asia. Mark also represented Ireland at the 2005 Venice Biennale in a group exhibition and ‘Ireland at Venice 2005. 

This is a remarkable opportunity for supporters of Mark Garry to become involved in this one off exciting collaborative project.

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Kerlin Gallery is delighted to present, Remains, the highly acclaimed new video work by Willie Doherty.

  Remains is situated in the landscape and streets of Derry, Northern Ireland where an uneasy peace is often disrupted by incidents of violence that seem like inexplicable remnants from the past.

  Against this backdrop, the camera moves through the streets of the town and its surrounding landscape in a sequence of long tracking shots accompanied by a voiceover. Through the narration the tempo of the work shifts from a study of normality to a series of interruptions where the everyday is pierced by the intrusion of incidents of threat and violence. The work speculates on the origins of the specific incidents that we encounter and concludes with a dramatic sequence of a burning car abandoned within the landscape. An image remembered from the past that erupts in the present with the quality of a vivid hallucination.

  Remains is developed out of a body of work that meditates upon the existence of traces of past events that will not disappear, that resurface and cannot be forgotten; including Secretion, 2012 that was produced for dOCUMENTA 13, Buried, 2009 and Ghost Story, 2007.

  Nominated twice for the Turner Prize (2003, 1994), Doherty’s work has been the subject of many solo museum shows including Neue Galerie, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel (2013), The Annex, IMMA, Dublin (2013), Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2012), Towner Gallery Eastbourne (2012) Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane (2011) The Speed Art Museum, Kentucky (2011), Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2009), Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2009), Lenbachhaus, München (2007), Kunstverein, Hamburg (2007), Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City (2006), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2002). Renaissance Society, Chicago (1999) and Tate Gallery, Liverpool (1999). Group shows include Manifesta 8 (2010), 3rd Auckland Triennial (2007), Venice Biennale 2007, 2005 and 1993, Reprocessing Reality, MOMA PS.1, New York (2006), Istanbul Biennale (2003) and the Carnegie International (1999).