CONVERGENCE: LITERARY ART EXHIBITIONS

Convergence: Literary Art Exhibitions
Curated by Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes

 

This exhibition will show how reading and interpreting literature is – in diverse ways – at the core of some of the most renowned contemporary artists’ practices: Allotrope, antepress, Julie Bacon, Ecke Bonk, Pavel Büchler, Davide Cascio, Tacita Dean, Cerith Wyn Evans, Maria Fusco, Kenneth Goldsmith, Rodney Graham, Joanna Karolini, Sean Lynch, Simon Morris, Brian O’Doherty, Michalis Pichler,Tim Rollins, Andrea Theis, Nick Thurston and Eric Zboya.

It highlights that writers such as Joyce, Goethe, Beckett, Kafka, Sebald and Vonnegut have something to say to artists today – and that artists make a major contribution to how we can all think about literature and aspects of the canon today: as something relevant and liberating. Exhibiting literature has been the domain of literary museums and monuments. On an island from which most renowned writers have emigrated, alternative modes of marking their role have to be – and have been – found: by artists and through exhibitions. These are held in public spaces and in a variety of venues. This exhibition, in exploring the relationships between art, literature and exhibitions, provides an alternative “monument” to writers, their works, to well-read artists – and to innovative ways of bridging these realms through exhibition.

Image Credits: Davide Cascio, Polyhedra (a room in which to read Joyce’s Ulysses) 2004,Cardboard, wood, neon, plastic flowers, 300 x 300 x 300 cm, Courtesy of the Museo Cantonale d’Arte Lugano

photo: Pino Musi

Supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Belfast City Council

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