The classical simplicity of the composition and the high production values assert an aesthetic authority in its place. Totalitarian aspirations, as embodied in public buildings, are mocked as the viewer is sucked into the fiction, only to find that they have been deceived and the authority of image and ideology is undermined. The photograph is real but the architecture it portrays is artificial, shot from a meticulously created maquette by the artist and digitally enhanced to place it in a setting as convincing as Piranesi’s megalomaniacal prison drawings. The sepia tones of Mausoleum, Birmingham, England and the imperial authority of the building have all the hallmarks of the real thing. The selection of work from each of the schools will be shown in this countywide exhibition at Wexford Arts Centre, alongside the work of the project artists, and works selected by the children from IMMA’s collection including Landmarks of Industrial Britain by Canadian artist Carl Zimmerman, Study for Arcadia by Gary Coyle and Untitled by Louise Bourgeois.Ĭarl Zimmerman evokes eighteenth-century Enlightenment debates about power and the sublime in his photoworks of enormously scaled public buildings only to mischeviously deconstruct them. ![]() The children worked extensively in a variety of different media including painting, drawing, photography, textiles and weaving, clay, construction and papier mache.Īrt Alongside provides an exciting opportunity for participating classes to become familiar with the IMMA collection, and in a meaningful way the children explore a piece of contemporary art of their choice. Following this period of research, the classroom art projects were devised, based on the student’s understanding of and responses to their chosen piece of work. Guided by project artists Mary Claire O’Brien and Helen Robbins, the children involved were facilitated in looking carefully at each of these reproductions and made their choice of work to be included in their exhibition in Wexford Arts Centre. This year’s Art Alongside continued its hugely successful partnership between Wexford County Council, the Arts Council of Ireland, the National Programme of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Wexford Arts Centre and primary level schools.įor the current project, children from County Wexford primary schools were shown high quality reproductions of artwork from the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s Collection. Patrick’s N.S, Craanford, Scoil Naomh Aine, Rathgarogue, Cushinstown National School, Kildavin National School and Courtnacuddy National School. The six schools involved in the 2010 / 2011 project are Barntown National School, St. An initiative of the Arts Department of Wexford County Council, Art Alongside is a visual arts programme based in primary schools throughout County Wexford. ![]() Art Alongside / 22 March – 9 April 2011 / Wexford Arts CentreĬhildren Get Choosy with IMMA opens to the public at Wexford Arts Centre on Wednesday 23 January 2011.
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