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Group: HERE/there Wexford meets Wuppertal

June 9, 2020 by Wexford Arts Centre

HERE/there
Wexford meets Wuppertal
A group exhibition of artists working in Ireland and Germany
Curated by Anya von Gosseln and Jurgen Groelle
24th June – 16th August 2019

A three venue exhibition at Wexford County Council, Wexford Arts Centre, and
​Kamera 8

Opening Reception and Performance by Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence
5pm on Friday 21st June at Wexford County Council, Carricklawn, Wexford

Guest Speaker: Olivia Hausen, Head of PR, German-Irish Chamber of Industry
​All welome, food and refreshments served.

Followed by wine receptions in Wexford Arts Centre and Kamera 8 at 7pm.

The Arts Department of Wexford County Council in partnership with Wexford Arts Centre and Kamera 8 are delighted to host an exhibition of artists working in Ireland and Germany. HERE/there features the works of Pablo de Lillo, Bert Didillon, Fergus Doyle, Chris Dreier, Gary Farrelly, Wolfgang Flad, Isabel Kerkermeier, Anthony Lyttle, Stephen Nolan, Helen O’Leary, Patrick Redmond, Friederike Ruff, Klaus-Martin Treder, Mary Ruth Walsh, and Julia Zinnbauer. Running between the three venues, the exhibition links with Galerie GROELLE Pass Projects, Wuppertal and showcases work exploring the historical significance of the two regions.

HERE/there explores and reinforces the cultural exchange that has existed between the Rhineland and South East Ireland throughout our shared history. Germanic influences are recognizable in the abstracted animal forms that proliferate in Insular art, notably in the Irish metalwork, illustrated Gospel books and manuscripts of the Early Christian period. It is thought that scribes from Carlow created the famous Echternach Gospel as its insular style suggests connections. The influence, however, very quickly spread in reverse as Irish Benedictine monks established schottenklosters in Wurzburg and Regensburg and other towns in southern Germany. And the Germans returned the compliment; Benedictines from Regensburg came fundraising to Cashel. By the 12th Century invasions and colonisation gave the Irish other things to think about and those close connections gradually filtered out.

​Today, German/Irishwoman, Anya von Gosseln, and her colleague in the Rhineland, Jurgen Groelle bring a selection of contemporary art of these two regions together, with Irish artists showing in Wuppertal and German and Irish artists showing in Wexford. In this shared project, installations compete for space with performance, and paintings feature fragments of structures that comment on traditional approaches to history, landscape, the built environment, and materials we use in our daily lives. Fergus Doyle’s surreal photographs rub shoulders with Chris Dreier’s. Installations by Wolfgang Flad and sculptures by Isabel Kerkermeier and Berd Didillon use the materials that surround us to re-imagine our world, while Helen O’Leary draws on discarded structural materials from old paintings to think about memory and history. Paintings by Klaus-Martin Treder and Anthony Lyttle explore abstract shapes, forms, and marks created by drawing, painting or collaging found matter, while those of Stephen Nolan, Pablo de Lillo, Patrick Redmond and Friederike Ruff bring us closer to more obviously traditional genres and the history of painting, with their own distinctive contemporary voice. Mary Ruth Walsh explores the kind of architectural spaces to which Julia Zinnbauer responds in her video work, and where the Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence – Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly – stage performances.

HERE/there presents a range of work that is exciting, upbeat, and uncompromising and will run in Wexford County Council, Wexford Arts Centre and Kamera 8 until Friday 16th August 2019.

For further information on the exhibition please contact Catherine Bowe, Wexford Arts Centre, Cornmarket, Wexford on 053 9123764 or email catherine@wexfordartscentre.ie.

herethere_exhibitionbrochure_2019.pdf
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herethere_artistsbios_2019.pdf
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Images (left to right):
Wolfgang Flad, MH9K, 2018, acrylic on panel 90 x 70cm
Patrick Redmond, Take a look at me now, 2019, paper on oil painting, 36 x 30cm
Friederike Ruff, Return to Sender, 2016-17, embroidery and acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40cm

Filed Under: Past Exhibitions, 2019

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