FROM CONTEXT TO EXHIBITION Opening 21 April at 6pm

Exhibition dates 21 April - 4 May (inclusive)

Free entry
From Context to Exhibition - a group show emerging from The Learning Development Programme 2011, managed and curated by Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts. Partners include NCAD, IADT, Tisch School,NYU and the LAB.

The Learning Development Programme is an experiential learning programme providing the opportunity for student artists to engage in collaborative arts practice by both working across disciplines and collaborating with communities of place and/or interest. The exploratory processes and practices of collaborative arts demand diverse approaches to traditional definitions of art, artists and arts development. From Context to Exhibition is a contemporary look at how artists begin to translate collaborative processes and practice into the context of the white space.
For more information please visit www.create-ireland.ie

PROTEST FOR CHINESE ARTIST AI WEIWEI OUTSIDE CHINESE EMBASSY, APRIL17 AT 1PM -2PM

Amanda Ralph, artist and teacher, is assisting the organisation of a peaceful protest outside the Chinese Embassy on Sunday, April 17 · 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Ireland
40 Ailesbury Road, Ballsbridge

Creative Time and A Prior magazine have put out a call for people to bring a chair and sit peacefully outside Chinese embassies in support of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's immediate release this Sunday April 17th. Ai Weiwei has been detained by the Chinese government since April 3rd on suspicion of economic crimes.

The form of Sunday’s planned protest — in which participants will bring chairs and sit down outside Chinese government buildings around the world — draws on an installation titled “Fairytale: 1001 Qing Dynasty Wooden Chairs,” which Mr. Ai did at Documenta in Kassel, Germany, in 2007. In it, he arranged 1,001 late Ming and Qing Dynasty wooden chairs around the exhibition.

All artists should really think about supporting this protest, it is really important for lots of people to show up at the Chinese embassy in support of this very brave and controversial artist.

FRIEDA KAHLO AND DIEGO RIVERA AT IMMA

A must see for every artist..Frida Kahlo Diego Rivera: Masterpieces of the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection is at Imma until June 26th.  Both Kahlo and Rivera were virtuoso mythmakers. Hence the enjoyable – if, occasionally, dizzying – sense of being batted back and forth as you walk around the exhibition.