Beyond Drawing - Arno Kramar

Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre   Uillinn   Marsh   Skibbereen    Co. Cork

23 July - 8 September   2022

Arno Kramer has acted as curator for a new group exhibition, Beyond Drawing, at West Cork Arts Centre. The exhibition includes work by three artists from Ireland and three from The Netherlands, including Felicity Clear, Marleen Kappe, Romy Muijrers, Kiera O’Toole, Marisa Rappard and Mary-Ruth Walsh. The exhibition at Uillinn will be accompanied by discussions and other events exploring this expanded field of drawing. The first iteration of Beyond Drawing, featuring work by these six artists, was presented at Ballina Arts Centre in 2020.

"Drawing is a speculative and exploratory process, and many contemporary artists are testing what the parameters of a drawing can be. Charcoal, pencil and ink have been supplemented with materials such as wire, tape, wood and steel. Artists are experimenting with materials such as smoke, water, light and air, and methods of presentation such as installation and film. This exhibition captures a moment in contemporary drawing practices, it invites the viewer to viscerally engage with drawing through an expanded field which opens up new possibilities. Several of the works are site specific and constructed on site over time and in relation to the physical building, all are experimental and explorative, while holding an authenticity and sensitivity to the core of drawing practice."

Link to exhibition page:

https://www.westcorkartscentre.com/beyond-drawing

Marisa Rappard Waves of whispers, traces, tidings pencil on paper and wood 2020

GAME UP - Opening June 2 in Berlin

Elaine Hoey, A Blind Eye, 2021

Green On Red Gallery is delighted to announce GAME UP, its first international exhibition at transmediale studio, Berlin.   

Preview: 18:00 - 21:00, Thursday June 2
Open: June 1 - 26
Wednesdays – Fridays 13:00 - 19:00
Saturdays & Sundays June 11:00 - 19:00 
Entrance: Free
Address: transmediale studio, Gerichtstr. 35, 13347 Berlin

GAME UP seeks to get under the skin of our increasingly digital planet as a springboard to new thinking and new action through the work of  artists, Alan Butler, Elaine Hoey, Conor McGarrigle, Rosa Menkman,  David OReilly and Paper Rad/Cory Arcangel. GAME UP is a reckoning, a rear mirror view and a look at the future of our hyper-connected world.  

What are the rules of engagement in this electronic superhighway and who is policing them?  What of our digital shadow and its instantaneous monetisation? How are race and gender played out in the digital space? By turning the technology on itself, the artists in GAME UP create ways to consider and expose this hidden world. The viewer is brought deep into virtuality by means of narratives and experiences that question and confront the digital contract.

Conor McGarrigle, practicing artist and lecturer in Fine Art in the Technological University, Dublin, reminds us in his Electronic Superhighway (2022) of the richness of historical material, even in the short decades since the internet was founded and early ‘70s telemental art.

Artist and  lecturer in Fine Art at The National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Elaine Hoey’s walk-in VR installation/performance brings the viewer awkwardly face to face with an Oracle far removed from its Delphic forebearer who might predict a different kind of future.

Alan Butler represented Ireland at the Venice Architecture Biennale, 2021, as a founding member of the collective of artists and architects, Annex. GAME UP presents Alan Butler’s 20 minute video Mondo Cane (2018), a journey through a sumptuous John Berger-like sequence of images and sounds mined from Grand Theft Auto.

Rosa Menkman is an artist, lecturer and pioneer of glitch art. Her work Glitch Studies Manifesto promises hope for what glitch might offer by suggesting disintegration might democratize society.

LA-based David OReilly works with animation, Augmented Reality and gaming. For GAME UP, the artist presents 4004 (2021), a free-standing resin monolith in which an Intel microchip - The Intel 4004 originally released by Intel Corporation in 1971 – has been preserved, resembling a factice out-of-place. The sculpture also exists as an NFT.

Chiptuner Paper Rad and video and game artist Cory Arcangel’s work, Super Mario Movie (2005), is a 15-minute movie programmed onto a Mario Brothers cartridge, in which we see the plumber evolving in a chaotic, corrupt and glitchy world.

 This exhibition is supported by Culture Ireland and curated by Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, with assistance from transmediale Festival of Art and Digital Culture, Berlin.

 For more information contact: jerome@greenonredgallery.com | www.greenonredgallery.com