installation view (photo: Stuart Whipps) al Modern Art Oxford
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Ireland’s
representation at the Venice Art Biennale 2015 announced:
Tuesday, 20 May,
2014: The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan, TD,
today announced the details of the team to represent Ireland at the 56th
International Art Exhibition in Venice in 2015. Ireland at Venice is an
initiative of Culture Ireland in partnership with the Arts Council.
The Commissioner
for 2015 is Mike Fitzpatrick who will work with the Curator Woodrow Kernohan to
present the work of artist, Sean Lynch. Both the Commissioner and the Curator
have extensive experience of presenting high profile international exhibitions.
Mike Fitzpatrick, currently Director of Limerick City of Culture, was
Commissioner/Curator for the 52nd Venice Art Biennale which saw a very
successful exhibition of the work of Gerard Byrne and Woodrow Kernohan is
Director of EVA International, Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art.
Sean Lynch, who
has just opened his first UK museum exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, has
already attracted strong international interest and has exhibited in many
public galleries and institutions throughout Europe, as well as being known for
several high profile public art projects, including O’Connell Street, Dublin.
The selection was
made following an open competitive process run by the Culture Ireland Division
of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, in partnership with the
Arts Council. Minister Deenihan said:
“I am delighted
that Sean, who has a growing international reputation, will have this
opportunity to present his work at the Venice Biennale which offers an
important global platform to showcase the strength of Ireland’s visual arts.”
Orlaith McBride,
Director of the Arts Council said: “The Arts Council is delighted to again support
Ireland’s representation at the Venice Art Biennale 2015. Sean Lynch’s work is
particularly intriguing and unique, finding wonderful pathways for the public
into hidden or forgotten histories. Of course, in addition to its commitment to
showing Irish artists’ work in Venice, the Arts Council will support the
subsequent Irish Tour to ensure that people throughout Ireland get a chance to
see the show for themselves.”
Commenting on the
selection, Commissioner Mike Fitzpatrick stated: “Sean Lynch will represent
Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2015 with a unique presentation that will gather
disparate strands of our history and locate them in a series of interlocking
vignettes. A native of North Kerry, a graduate and lecturer at Limerick School
of Art and Design, LIT, he lives in Askeaton, Limerick and London. His work
combines a narrative strength with an incisive ability to discover, research
and translate complex cultural issues. Sean has already gained considerable
international recognition and utilises his particular strength to forensically
explore trails of forgotten stories and contextualize them within the
contemporary context”.
Curator Woodrow
Kernohan commented: “This is a very exciting project. I’m delighted to have
been selected to work with Sean Lynch and Mike Fitzpatrick to represent Ireland
at the Venice Biennale in 2015. Sean’s work celebrates unwritten aspects of our
social and cultural heritage and the Irish Pavilion in 2015 will also be an
opportunity to promote the wider Irish art scene to international audiences”.
The 56th
International Art Exhibition will be held in Venice from May 9th to November
22nd 2015. It will then tour in Ireland in early 2016.
