Mic Moroney previews Michael Craig-Martin, an artist whose career has kept pace with one of the most challenging periods in art history, ahead of his retrospective at IMMA

This October, Michael Craig-Martin, in his first retrospective in the country of his birth, joins the small handful of headline artists who have been curated at IMMA by Director, Enrique Juncosa. As Deputy Director of Valencia’s IVAM Museum, Juncosa curated him in 2000, where the artist mounted a resplendent installation, painting walls in loud, confectionary lime-greens and pinks which hummed electrically off each other