Niamh McCann
Furtive Tears

Artist Talk on Wed 3 October @5pm
General viewing 6-8pm
Free admission. 
FURTIVE TEARS continues until 6 January 2019

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
Parnell Square, Dublin, Ireland D01 F2X9

Gallery artist Niamh McCann presents FURTIVE TEARS at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane opening Wednesday 3 October 2018.

FURTIVE TEARS brings together the mythologies of Sir Edward Carson (Irish unionist politician and barrister) with Hans Poelzig (German architect, painter and set-designer) to explore the interplay of fact and fiction and the dynamic relationship between the audience, object and mode of display.

Featuring the bronze cast nose of Michael Collins (from the original statue by Seamus Murphy), a taxidermied deer with inflated latex mask & neon, a reimagining of a panda bear and a stunning bronze balaclava titled False Prophet, this show combines the surreal, the bizarre and the perverse, inviting remnants of the past into the present and the things of the present into the future.

Furtive Tears features is an installation in four galleries and is a composite of mixed materials that appropriate utopian ideas of fluid relationships between Art/Architecture/Design in early modernism. Expect assemblages and interventions as well as a newly commissioned video-work with soundscape Furtive Tears, Salomé’s Lament.

This exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

Artist Talk on Wed 3 October @5pm
General viewing 6-8pm
Free admission. 
FURTIVE TEARS continues until 6 January 2019

Niamh McCann is an Irish artist living and working in Dublin. Recent solo exhibitions include La Perruque (Protest Song) at MAC Belfast and Just Left of Copernicus in Visual Carlow. Group exhibitions include: Future Perfect, Rubicon-Projects Brussels; Changing States: Contemporary Art and Francis Bacon’s Studio, BOZAR, Belgium; Time Out of Mind: Works from the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art; In Other Words, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork; this little bag of dreams, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco; and Without-Boundaries, Wäinö Attonen, Museum of Art, Finland Her work is represented in the collections of IMMA, The OPW, Limerick City Gallery, Swansea City Council, The London Institute, and Hiscox Collection, London.

www.niamhmccann.com

The exhibition will be launched by Deputy Lord Mayor Cllr. Cathleen Carney Boudon behalf of Ardmhéara Nial Ring

For more info see the event.