Already famous for the vivacity of its cultural scene, Dublin is the ideal destination for a city break from the beginning of autumn in the name of art. This year, the Irish capital is preparing to further strengthen its image of European cultural pole with Dublin Contemporary 2011, an ambitious contemporary art exhibition dedicated to the most recent Irish and international artistic production that will transform, from September 6th to October 31st, the city itself into a unique, dynamic art gallery with installations, videos, paintings, sculptures and performances of more than 80 artists from all over the world, including the Italians Alberto Di Fabio and Ludovica Carbotta, as well as the master Jannis Kounellis, who lives and lives from Greek, although they work.
The event will be held in various locations, all in the heart of the city, starting from the main site, that is, Earlsfort Terrace, an extraordinary historic building in which the past is wonderfully combined with the future. The artistic itinerary continues at the nearby Annex, Iveagh Gardens, Royal Hibernian Academy and Douglas Hyde Gallery at Trinity College.
The theme of the exhibition is Terrible Beauty – Art, Crisis and The Office of Non-Compliance, a title drawn from the famous Easter 1916 poem of the great W.B.Yeats, underlining the close relationship between the author’s verses, written at a crucial time of the 1900s, and the symbolic power of art in the current and controversial social, cultural and economic reality of the world.
The exhibition, the most important of the genre ever made in Ireland, will have a quinquennale cadence, going so to place next to the great European periodic events, such as the Venice Biennale and Kassel Documenta, but with something more than those, that is that sense of joyous festival and animation that characterizes all the events of the Irish city.
