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    Hospitable Actions brings the Bealtaine Festival into the fold of some of the country’s leading visual arts organisations. For Hospitable Actions – Dublin, during the month of May Bealtaine visitors to IMMA are free into paid exhibitions, can attend an artist response by artist Pauline Cummins on the work of Frank Bowling and experience the live performance work of  cheorgrapher Yvonne Rainer.

    EXHIBITIONS

    FRANK BOWLING, MAPPA MUNDI
    IMMA COLLECTION: FREUD PROJECT THE ETHICS OF SCRUTINY, CURATED BY DAPHNE WRIGHT
    BRIAN O’DOHERTY: LANGUAGE AND SPACE
    During the month of May entry to the Frank Bowling & IMMA Collection: Freud Project exhibitions will be free for Bealtaine visitors once booked online with the Promo code “BEALTAINE18”. Tickets are limited so early booking is recommended on www.imma.ie

    PERFORMANCES

    PAULINE CUMMINS: AN ARTIST’S RESPONSE
    Performance artist Pauline Cummins will give an artist’s response to the work of Frank Bowling, Brian O’Doherty & The Freud Project.

    YVONNE RAINER | LIVE PERORMANCES
    PERFORMANCE: 12 & 13 MAY 7.30PM WITH
    MATINEE ON SUN 13 MAY AT 3.30PM
    Limited Free Tickets
    Pioneering dancer, choreographer, filmmaker and writer. Performance featuring Rainer’s iconic early works and conversation on her career with complimentary O’Hara’s Irish Craft Beer. IMMA are providing a very limited number of free tickets to these performances for Bealtaine audiences when booked online with thePromo code ‘BEALTAINERAINER’.

  • About the Artist

    • Brian O'Doherty

    Brian O'Doherty, 1928–2022

    Brian O’Doherty was born in Ireland and moved to New York in 1957. A qualified medical doctor, O’Doherty became renowned as an artist, writer, television host, and educator. Consistently exploring the multiple nature of identity, he adopted various personae, notably 'Patrick Ireland', who was buried at IMMA in 2008. Major retrospectives of O’Doherty/Ireland’s work were held at the National Museum of American Art, Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane and the Grey Art Gallery, New York. Brian O'Doherty died at his apartment in Manhattan on Monday 7th of November 2022, at the age of 94.

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    Daphne Wright

    Daphne Wright, b.1963

    Daphne Wright attended Sligo RTC College, the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic. Wright makes multi-narrative installations, using a range of fragile media including plaster, tinfoil, unfired clay, and sound and video. She considers how language and materials can be used to probe unspoken human preoccupations. Concerned with the transitory areas of life, she explores the cusp of childhood and adulthood, and the borderlines between life and death. 

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    Lucian Freud

    Lucian Freud, 1922–2011

    Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was one of the greatest realist painters of the 20th century. Renowned for his portrayal of the human form, Freud is best known for his intimate, honest, often visceral portraits. Working only from life Freud’s studio was intensely private and he mainly worked with those he was close to, often asking subjects to sit for hundreds of hours over multiple sittings to better capture the essence of their personality.
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    Associated Events

    Brian O'Doherty
    Language and Space

    26 Apr 2018–16 Sep 2018

    Frank Bowling
    Mappa Mundi

    24 Mar 2018–08 Jul 2018

    Yvonne Rainer Selected Works

    12 May 2018–18 May 2018

    Freud Project: The Ethics of Scrutiny Curated by Daphne Wright

    15 Feb 2018–02 Sep 2018