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ART EXHIBITIONS CELEBRATING THE WORKS OF JOYCE
As part of Bloomsday this year we have a number of fantastic art exhibitions around the city. This is your chance to see artist reinterpret the works of Joyce in new and amazing ways. If you’re coming into Dublin City for Bloomsday these exhibitions would be a great way to broaden your experience. From graphic novels to photography to traditional paintings, it’s all here for you.
Celebrating Ulysses
21st May – 21st August 2022 | Admission free
Sir Hugh Lane Room, National Gallery of Ireland,
Merrion Square W, Dublin 2, D02 K303
This exhibition celebrates James Joyce’s Ulysses, which was published in its entirety in Paris on 2 February 1922–the writer’s 40th birthday. 34 works by German artist Günter Schöllkopf, presented by his sister to the National Gallery of Ireland, will be displayed for the first time. The Stuttgart-born etcher and illustrator held a lifelong fascination with Joyce. These striking drawings and etchings from the 1960s and 70s bring to life characters and episodes from the modernist novel, offering a new context in which to see Molly and Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus and Buck Mulligan.
Dubliners – The Childhood, Adolescence, Adulthood & Public Life Stories
6th June – 31 December 2022 | Admission Free
James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s Street, Dublin 1
Frank Kiely’s Dubliners series of 15 paintings is a correspondence with James Joyce’s original text. Struck by how the themes posed by Joyce are still relevant today, he has reconstituted his stories with an imagined visual narrative presented within a 21st century Dublin context. The images are often infused with autobiographical references deviating from the original stories at will and address the core universal questions and themes posed in Joyce’s work.
Sirens in Bloom – James Joyce’s Ulysses Women
6th June – 30th June 2022 | Admission Free
James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s St, Dublin 1
To mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Súileir and The James Joyce Centre invited Dublin photographer, Tom Lawlor to re-visit the novel and see if he could find parallels with contemporary Dublin. We were very pleased and surprised when the assignment yielded a bouquet of exceptional pictures portraying the women in Ulysses with an original and distinctive interpretation.
Outrageous, Obscene and Offensive
12th June – 31st July | Admission Free
Olivier Cornet Gallery, 3 Great Denmark Street, Dublin 1
As is now almost tradition for his gallery, Olivier Cornet will once again curate a thematic group exhibition for the Bloomsday festival. Contrary to popular belief, the novel was never ‘officially’ banned in Ireland, but it was never actually put on sale, as copies of the book seemingly didn’t make it through customs. However, it was indeed banned in the USA -lest it might cause American readers to harbour “impure and lustful thoughts”- and was also banned in the UK in 1929.
This year, as we mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses in Paris, the French-born gallerist has invited some of his artists to respond to the theme of censorship.
The exhibition will include work by Yann Petters, Claire Halpin, Miriam McConnon, Kelly Ratchford, Mary A. Fitzgerald, Aisling Conroy, David Fox, Nickie Hayden, Vicky Smith, Sheila Naughton and Susanne Wawra.
Penelope Says (and Circe Too): An exhibition of Illustrations, drawings and comics by Rob Berry
13 – 17 June [exhibition launches 6pm 13th June] | Admission Free
Smock Alley Theatre, Exchange St Lower, Temple Bar, D2
The James Joyce Centre and Smock Alley Theatre are pleased to present an exhibit of original art from Joyce illustrator and cartoonist Robert Berry. The exhibit will feature pages from the Penelope and Circe episodes of Ulysses as well as illustrations from the Dead and cast drawings from Corn Exchange’s 2012 production of Dubliners. Robert Berry is a Philadelphia painter, cartoonist and educator who has worked for over a decade illustrating and illuminating the works of James Joyce. He is the creator of ULYSSES “seen”, a web-based project adapting Joyce’s novel into the language comic books, illustrator of THE DEAD and other Joyce stories, and teaches the novel at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Rosenbach Museum & Library. He occasionally also finds time to make other pretty pictures.
The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the City Through James Joyce’s Dublin
17th June – 19th August | Admission Free
Irish Architectural Archive, 45 Merrion Square E, Dublin 2, D02 VY60
Curated in collaboration with Drawing Matter, The Ulysses Project presents a body of research by the architect Freddie Phillipson into the relations between the buildings of Dublin and James Joyce’s landmark novel. Born and raised in Athens by Greek and British parents, Phillipson was educated at the University of Cambridge and MIT and in 2020 was identified as one of the 40 best architects under 40 in the UK. Reflecting his bilingual heritage, since 2003 alongside work in practice he has been reconstructing the lost buildings in which Joyce’s ‘translation’ of Homer’s Odyssey is set. With an architect’s expertise, the material in the exhibition goes further into the archaeology of Joyce’s Dublin than existing literary scholarship, making the events of the text accessible and its settings visible. Phillipson has consulted previously overlooked material held by the IAA; several buildings have never been drawn before, and the drawings visualise Joyce’s treatment of the city in a new and unique way. A large scale (1.8×2.5m) topographic drawing of central Dublin is accompanied by scaled reconstructions of ten buildings where individual episodes are set. Hundreds of sketches underpin these pieces. The text and its themes are meticulously mapped onto the actual rooms, demonstrating the role of architecture in Joyce’s rediscovery of ancient myth in everyday situations, and posing broader philosophical questions about the purpose of design.
Ulysses Imagined
11th June – 23rd July | Admission Free
Graphic Studio Gallery, Cope Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
2022 marks 100 years since James Joyce’s modernist novel Ulysses was published in its entirety. To celebrate this, we have invited 18 visual artists, to each make an original print, responding to one of the 18 episodes in the book. Each print will be limited to just 18 copies. Due to interest from public collections in acquiring the complete set of works from the exhibition, we have decided to set aside six box sets, with a specially designed embossed illustration. The exhibition is accompanied by a commissioned text by Nuala O’Connor, set in letterpress. Celebrated author of Nora. O’Connor’s book, published in 2021, imagines Joyce’s home life, through the eyes of his wife Nora Barnacle. Joyce’s famous novel has inspired many different artists since its publication: writers, musicians and visual artists. This exhibition gives 18 printmakers the opportunity to create a work using an episode from Ulysses as a starting point. The resulting prints, in a wide variety of techniques, illustrate how art of the past inspires art of the future. A line from Nuala O’Connor’s text alludes to that continuum:
‘We loop into infinity, eating ourselves and each other, the end in our beginning and the beginning in our end’.
The exhibition is curated in collaboration with Anne Hodge, National Gallery of Ireland along with Peter Brennan and Mateja Smic of Graphic Studio Gallery.
Visual Artists: Kelvin Mann, Andrew Folan, Fiona Kelly, Yoko Akino, Monika Crowley, Tom Phelan, Kitch Doom, Vaida Varnagiene, Robert Russell, Niamh McGuinne, Elke Thonnes, Shane O’Driscoll, Louise Leonard, Jean Bardon, Daniel Lipstein, Matthew Gammon, Dermot Ryan, Clare Henderson.
Text by Nuala O’Connor. Box set illustration by Eilis Murphy.
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