The most extensive exhibition to date from the Museum's own collection,
The Moderns, explores the development of modernity in Ireland through the visual arts in the period 1900 to 1975. Focussing in the innovative and the experimental, it examines this subject through a broad, interdisciplinary approach.
The exhibition brings together exceptional examples of painting and sculpture, photography and film, architecture, literature, music and design of the period. Curated mainly from IMMA's Collection, it also includes superb loans from the public and private collections in Ireland and beyond.
The Moderns explores many of the key artistic movements of the period, including the paintings of Mainie Jellett, Evie Hone and other supporters of European Modernism in the context of the iconic achievements in design and literature of Eileen Gray and James Joyce. It reflects the works and
influence of John Millington Synge, Paul Henry and the Yeats family and external forces as seen in the work of Klee and Picasso. The impact of the ground-breaking ROSC exhibitions in the 1960s and '70s, and of Minimal and Conceptual Art, in the works of Brian O'Doherty, Barry Flanagan and Michael Craig-Martin, also are examined.
Artists featured in the exhibition include:
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