Offaly native to represent Ireland at Venice Biennale
BANAGHER man Caoimhin Corrigan together with artists Sarah Browne and Gareth Kennedy will represent Ireland at the world's most prestigious international visual arts showcase, the Venice Biennale.
Minister Martin Cullen officially launched the Irish representation at the event last Thursday.
Ireland's representation at the 53rd International Art Exhibition seeks to foreground two artists whose art practice centres on an engagement with people, as a core element of their work.
The technically accomplished and visually engaging artworks they produce operate both within and beyond the traditional ideas of the art world.
The 53rd International Art Exhibition, directed by Daniel Birnbaum and titled Making Worlds will be open to the public from June 7 to November 22 in the Giardini and Arsenale exhibition venues in Venice.
Kennedy Browne is the name under which the two artists author a discrete body of work, distinct from their individual practices.
For the 53rd International Biennale, a new video work from Kennedy Browne addresses Dublin as a city of 167 languages.
The work features a segment of text by American economist and leader of the Chicago School of Economics, Milton Friedman, on how the pencil exemplifies the potential of the free market economy, spoken by a volunteer cast in over 40 languages, located in the iconic trade union setting of Liberty Hall overlooking the city.
Caoimhn Corrigan is Arts Officer of Leitrim County Council and curator of The Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon, where a very exciting visual arts programme has been established in less than three years. Corrigan, who will act as both Commissioner and Curator, previously initiated and led the highly acclaimed Visualise programme of temporary public art projects and international exhibitions in Carlow from 2000 - 2004, while also acting as lead advisor on VISUAL – The National Centre for Contemporary Art.
His curatorial approach in both Carlow and Leitrim has been marked by a commitment to artist-led work which seeks to engage directly with publics/audiences, and he has worked with previous Venice Biennale participants Mark Garry and Stephen Brandes (Ireland), Adrian Paci (Albania) and Alfredo Jaar (Chile), as well as working with a number of previous commissioners from Ireland and abroad.
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