In his livre d’artiste, a selection from which are on display at the Chester Beatty Library, Matisse sought to create a graphic equivalent to the facing page, writes Emily Mark-FitzGerald
The Chester Beatty Library is currently exhibiting some of the finest examples of the livre d’artiste produced by Henri Matisse (1859–1954): The Poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé (1932), Pasiphaé, Song of Minos (The Cretans) by Henry de Montherlant (1944), Jazz (1947) and the Poems of Charles d’Orléans (1950), all part of a loan exhibition assembled by Bank of America Merrill Lynch from its collection. The exhibition will be further augmented by an additional copy of Matisse’s illustrated Ulysses (1935) from the Chester Beatty’s own holdings.
Ahead of Dragana Jurisic’s solo show at the RHA in September we republish Stephanie McBride’s examination of the photographer’s 2011 show at the Droichead Arts Centre, studies of urban survival taken during the Celtic Tiger years, revealing Ireland’s struggling society.
Paul Larmour visits the new theatre, which he describes as a boon for the dramatic arts and the most exciting building in Belfast