Liked & Shared at Marsh's Library, Dublin
Does on-line success translate into the real life? Marsh's Library is about to find out with its new exhibition. In recent years, Ireland's oldest public library has posted hundreds of images from their priceless collections on social media platforms. Some of these photos were seen by hundreds of thousands of people across the world. Now they're taking out those books and manuscripts once again to exhibit the ones that have gathered the most ‘likes’, ‘shares’ and ‘retweets’.
As it turned out, the library's most viral social media post ever was about a sound. It was this tiny video with the 16th century book clasps clicking, accidentally creating pure ASMR bliss. (Until Spring 2023)
The sound of the 16th century book pic.twitter.com/sOefYwvRqj
— Marsh's Library (@MarshsLibrary) August 27, 2020
Kevin Atherton: The Return at Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
In recent years, artist Kevin Atherton has become known for this aspect of his practice where he 're-enters' his previous works and through his interventions re-animates and adds to or alters their previous meaning. The Return consists of three video installations, along with additional object-based work, all of which involve a revisiting or return to an older pre-existing work. In this exhibition, the time gap between the 'first work' and the 'second work' will vary from forty-three years to a few minutes.
In addition, Atherton will screen a continuous sixty-minute programme of short film and video works that examine aspects of authorship and audience that span a fifty-year period. These works tackle issues such as identity and use humour to question the notion of the artist's documentary whilst simultaneously challenging television codes and practices. He talks to RTÉ Arena below. (Until October 2nd 2022)
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The first major exhibition of the work of internationally acclaimed sculptor Ron Mueck to feature in Ireland is currently showing at the MAC in Belfast. Mueck at the MAC brings together seven of the artist's hyperreal sculptures, including the reputation-making Dead Dad (1997) and his monumental piece In Bed (2005). (Until November 5th 2022)
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girls girls girls at Lismore Gallery, Waterford
Simone Rocha is a designer with deep connections to artists and their practice, and she's curated an exhibition that looks at the female gaze from multiple viewpoints, celebrating a diverse range of approaches in an exhibition centering on female practices. girls girls girls draws a thread from celebrated artists such as Cindy Sherman and Roni Horn to a younger generation of artists including Sophie Barber, Elene Chantladze, Luo Yang and Genieve Figgis (until October 30th 2022)
Meat and Potatoes at Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
Bringing together works by historic and contemporary artists who have used food as their muse in myriad ways, Meat and Potatoes gives viewers the opportunity to survey an abundance of food-related artworks produced over the last four centuries, from still lifes, to dining utensils and cookware, to video works and installations that consider the politics and concerns that have shaped perspectives on food right up to our present moment.
This exhibition features the work of Comhghall Casey, Monika Crowley, Lisa Fingleton, Mary Kelly, Anne Kiely and Mary Palmer, Maria McKinney, Abigail O'Brien, Geraldine O'Neill, John Bratby and Camille Souter (until 6th November 2022)
