This week we went on a field trip to the Irish Museum Of Morden Art.
Between Metaphor and Object features a range of works from the IMMA Collection, primarily sculptures and installation works principally from the 1990s
The Weltkunst Collection epitomises what is popularly referred to as ‘New British Sculpture’, a term used to describe the quite disparate work of young sculptors who emerged in the late 1970s and ‘80s and who showed renewed interest in using traditional materials after the dominance of Minimalist and Conceptual practices.
This is my favorite collection its thing out side the box. It references the polarities of opinion since the ‘60s and still pertinent today around interpretation of the art object, on the one hand the notion of the art objects’ self contained presence that suspends the viewer from his or her self awareness and the opposite effect where the viewer by their participation in a theatrical sense ‘completes’ the artwork.
While we were on the fiel trip we took some photographs here are a few of mine
