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Collecting the New: Recent Acquisitions to the IMMA Collection

19 May – 8 August 2010

Collecting the New presents artworks recently acquired for IMMA’s Collection and marks the first occasion that these works have been shown at the Museum as part of that Collection. The exhibition comprises some 42 works which have, for the most part, been acquired since 2005, through purchase, donation and loans. Twenty-six Irish and international artists are represented, including Amanda Coogan, Patrick Hall, Stefan Kürten, Catherine Lee, Janet Mullarney, Makiko Nakamura, Hughie O’Donoghue, and Susan Tiger. The exhibition reflects the Museum’s acquisition policy that the Collection should be firmly rooted in the present, concentrating on acquiring the work of living artists, but also accepting donations and loans of more historical art objects with a particular emphasis on work from the 1940s onwards.

Catherine Lee, Other Voices, 1993, Cast aluminium, copper, bronze, iron, 254x 358 x 5 cm total, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Purchase, 2005

Pat Hall, Sprinkle Ochre into my Eyes, 2004, Ink, watercolour and pastel on paper, 14 x 15 cm, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Donation, the artist, 2008

Nalini Malani, Stains, 2002, Animation, video installation, 8.5 minutes looped, sound, Dimensions variable, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Donation, the artist, 2008

The permanent Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art comprises approximately 2,500 works by 20th-century and contemporary Irish and international artists. It has been developed through purchase and donations, as well as long term loans and the commissioning of new works. The Museum’s acquisition policy, like its exhibition and education and community programmes, reflects the changing cultural landscape of the late 20th-century and the new millennium. The Museum not only buys the work of living artists but also accepts donations of works from the 1940’s onwards – a decade of significant social and cultural change, both in Ireland and worldwide.

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