30 April 2012
Shortlisted for Beers.Lambert Contemporary London
Time out of Mind | Irish Museum of Modern Art, NCH @ Earlsfort Tce, Dublin 2 | 31 May - 2 September 2012
Frequency, 2006 | oil on canvas | 200 x 240 cm (collection IMMA)
...'Using the idea of ‘The Moving Observer’ which Lakoff and Johnson have called the second major metaphor for time, leads us to think of time as locations in a landscape. As the observer ‘passes’ these locations so we are led to think of the observer’s motion as the ‘passage’ of time and of the distance between the observer and those locations in the landscape as the ‘amount’ of time ‘passed’. These metaphors arise from our most basic experiences of being in the world and they recur in languages throughout the world. It does not seem to be possible to think about ‘time’ without using such metaphors..' text by Ciaran Benson From 'Crossing' catalogue published by RHA Galleries 2006
The Horse Show RHA Galleries II + III Dublin, Ireland | 13 January - 25 March 2012
The poetry of power is celebrated in Piaffe, as a white horse is held in check, repeating a technically - expert dressage movement, that originally was developed to keep cavalry horses at a point of constant anticipation and constant readiness. A delicate, and deliberately small projection, the horse is nothing but a thin ray of light, a poignant fragility and all that pent up power endlessly repeats, never to be released, never to find a purpose. It plays with the idea of the so called (new) subjectivities; things are rapidly shifting and changing. Always in flux - we are and must be in a constant state of readiness for the next shift.
SOMEWHERE ELSE
Sub Urban Video Lounge, Rotterdam | The Netherlands | 12-23 December 2011
Anita Groener in Conversation with Ed Krcma
Rubicon Gallery 22nd October, 2011; Ed Krcma in conversation with artist Anita Groener for Dublin Contemporary 2011. dublincontemporary.com
Ed Krcma lectures at the History of Art Department of University College Cork. Alongside publishing academic articles and catalogue essays,
he also works as a critic and has written reviews for numerous magazines. Ed is the founding editor of Enclave Review, a contemporary arts review sheet based in Cork.