Visual Eyes: Selected artwork from the IMMA

Friday, 02 September 2005 09:39

DUBLIN, IRELAND.-An exhibition of works from the Collection of Irish Museum of Modern Art opens at the Iontas Arts Centre, Castleblayney, Co Monaghan. Visual Eyes: Selected artwork from the IMMA Collection is shown in collaboration with the Iontas Arts Centre and is the Centres inaugural exhibition. The exhibition includes work by prominent artists such as David Godbold, Tim Mara, Brian Maguire and Paul Winstanley. Brian Maguire deals with ideas of alienation and isolation within society and in personal relationships. His work has been at the cutting edge of contemporary Irish art in spite of the fact that he continued to use the medium of painting at a time when many artists were turning to other media. In 1998 he was commissioned to represent Ireland in the Bienale de São Paulo. . Paul Winstanley's paintings are meticulous, meditative renderings of vacated spaces such as waiting rooms, deserted passages and lobbies. Sometimes looking out from these interior spaces onto the landscape, Winstanley frames the natural world with the clean lines of 1970s utopian architecture. The spaces he is interested in are those spaces which are most often the last place you want to be - like doctors' waiting rooms or official spaces where people count minutes and wait their turn. Also included in the exhibition are prints by Tim Mara who is widely considered to be one the most important printmakers of our time. The self-portrait Reeded Glass and Shadow is one of a series of three prints. On the left, there is an image of the artist wearing his father's black-rimmed glasses, his face distorted by the textured glass; on the right Mara's silhouette is barely visible against the cream wall suggesting the passage of time and the importance of family history.

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