Issue 116, Summer 2006
Circa Art Magazine
43 / 44 Temple Bar
Dublin 2, Ireland
Phone: 353 1 67 97 388
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The summer issue of Irelands leading magazine for contemporary visual art is now on sale. The 128 full-colour pages include news, feature articles, reviews, projects, a host of images, and advertising from Irelands main art spaces. There is also a 16-page supplement, Art-watching, which investigates how we look at art.
Feature articles
Threepenny essay: The case of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Ormeau Baths Gallery Slavka Sverakova | Response to Circa article Arts Council of Northern Ireland | Interview: Mary McIntyre Jacqui McIntosh | Lackumentary: On the recent video works of Declan Clarke Dave Beech | The state of Art History in Ireland, revisited James Elkins |
Reviews Belfast Mark Curran: The breathing factory om lekha | Cork/ Sligo Blake and sons: Alternative lifestyles and mysticism in contemporary art Fergal Gaynor | Derry Padraig Timoney: Fear of all sums ten million dice to weigh Damien Duffy | Damien Duffy: New work 2006 Colin Darke | Aisling OBeirn: And other storeys Marianne OKane | Dublin Garrett Phelan: Black Brain radio Eimear McKeith | Jeanette Doyle And then i place my face against the glass / Portrayals Mark OKelly | General Idea Tim Stott | Katharina Wulff Emer Marron | Stephen Loughman: The lake Yvonne Scott | Anthony Haughey: Disputed territory Robbie OHalloran | Norbert Schwontkowski: Zip code Jacqui McIntosh | Gary Coyle / Paul McKinley / Jim Savage: Best three draw Jane Humphries | This aint no fooling around Gemma Tipton | Dublin/ Limerick 3 x Abstraction / From landscape Francis Halsall | Limerick ev a Paul OBrien | Monaghan Multiplicity Regina Gleeson |
Project Seán Lynch
Supplement Art-Watching: a collaborative project of art and text by Brian Fay and Niamh Ann Kelly
Art-Watching Introduction | Brian Fay: Art-Watching Images. Niamh Ann Kelly: Art-Watching Text | Original paintings from Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane | Olympia by Mieke Bal | For Ana Mendieta by Fionna Barber | Sunday Morning in Paris by Ciarán Bennett | Art Watch: Expressions of Irish Landscape by Dr Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch | Gijsbrechtss Joke by Hanneke Grootenboer | The meaning in the encounter by Siún Hanrahan | Your Move by Christina Kennedy | And so on by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith | The Portrait, a Struggle to See by Nancy Pedri and Richard- Max Tremblay | Close encounters with Francis Bacon by Joanna Shepard | The Lateral View by Brandon Taylor | Extract from an unpublished novel by Gemma Tipton
Also available for online purchase: Space: Architecture for Art, a Circa book on the theory and practice of art spaces; it includes a comprehensive directory to visual-arts spaces throughout the island of Ireland. More information at www.recirca.com/space
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Circa is supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and Culture Ireland.
