Old, familiar controversies and arguments are likely to be reopened on foot of IMMA’s epochal end-of-year exhibition, writes Brian Fallon.
Starting in October, the Irish Museum of Modern Art will mount what promises to be a major enterprise, in sheer scope and quantity if not necessarily in terms of individual quality or choice. (The latter, after all, is largely a subjective matter; each of us will have his or her individual preferences.) Entitled The Moderns, this massive affair will explore the period from 1900 to 1975 and, it seems, will be culled largely from the IMMA collection. It will be supplemented by “a number of significant loans”, particularly for works from the early decades of the 20th century – which obviously predate the collection. The exhibition runs until February next year and promises to be an epochal event.
Janet Mullarney’s sculptures perform as metaphors, not portraits, writes Cliodhna Shaffrey