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FROM THE "RED DISTRICTS"
TO THE "GOLDEN SMILE"
Review of the exhibition "IRWIN- ETROPRINCIP 1983-2003" at Kunstlerhaus
Bethanien in Berlin
From 26.09.2003 to 26.10.2003, Berlin's "Kunstlerhaus Bethanien"
paid tribute to 20 years of IRWIN with the retrospective exhibition "IRWIN-RETROPRINCIP
1983-2003".
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As part of the religious, cultural and social
events accompanying the current "Weltjugendtag (World
Youth Day) 2005" in Cologne, a small exhibition of IRWIN
works takes place within the mediaeval walls of "Saint
Gereon's Church" in Cologne these days.
Differing from to the previous larger-scaled
IRWIN exhibitions in Germany, only some six pieces of work
(mainly relatively new images and objects from the "ICONS"
series of 2002) are shown, but the exceptional surrounding
of the church's interior and the most interesting placation
of the images within this sacral surrounding makes the exhibition
a very special "Gesamtkunstwerk"-experience nevertheless.
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Exhibition in SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana
29. Oct. - 28. Nov. 2004
opening at 8 pm
The exhibition Hysteria and its Two Retro
Friends by the Irwin group, presents a selection of mostly
new paintings and drawings, which make part of the Irwin
Icons cycle. Hysteria and its Two Retro Friends
aims to re-establish the connection with the local Ljubljana
scene, since it epitomises the title of the group's first
exhibition at the Skuc Gallery exactly twenty years ago. Hysteria
and its Two Retro Friends is at the same time also an
extension of the IRWIN ICONS exhibition segment, which
was presented last year, as part of the larger project Irwin:Retroprincip
1983-2003, at Berlin's Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, the Karl
Ernst Osthaus-Museum in Hag, and this year, at the Museum
of Contemporary Art in Belgrade.
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Cornerhouse, March/April 2004
The exhibition culminates in Corpse of Art
(2003), a Cornerhouse commissioned installation that seeks
to reconstruct the physical presence of the twentieth century
artist Kasimir Malevich, who is a recurring reference point
in IRWIN's work. Malevich's legacy can be read in this context
as that of a failed Utopia, whose vision came to be appropriated
by the communist
regime during its rise to power. This lying-in-state again
recalls the symbols of totalitarian regimes, and is at the
same time a re-enactment of a pre-existing artwork exhibited
in Leningrad in 1937.
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IRWIN's "Corpse of Art" at the
Joan Miró Foundation
The beauty of failure / The failure of beauty
28 may – 24 october 2004
As part of the programme for the Universal
Forum of Cultures 2004 in Barcelona, the Joan
Miró Foundation will be showing The beauty of failure
/ The failure of beauty, an exhibition about how the great
dreams – the utopias – that seem so splendid in
the abstract are doomed to failure when we try to materialise
them, because they presuppose an entirely new, ideal society
that can never exist.
Irwin is taking place at this show with the piece Corpse of
Art, 2003 curated by Harald Szeeman.
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| IRWIN Selected SOLO Exhibitions and Projects - 2005 |
| Melbourne, Like to Like, RMIT Gallery |
| Hagen, East Art Map , Karl Ernst Osthaus
Museum (curated by Michael Fehr and Irwin) |
| Split, Like to Like,
Gheto |
| Seattle, Neil Rector
NSK Collection, (together with NSK) Frye Art Museum |
| Dubrovnik, Like to Like,
Art Centre Lazareti |
| IRWIN Selected GROUP Exhibitions and Projects - 2005 |
| Graz, Double Checked, Camera Austria (cat.) |
| Vienna, Re-modern, Kunsterhaus Wien (cat.) |
| Kassel, Collective Creativity, Fridricianum (cat.) |
| Budapest, Drawing Collection Pliva, Ludwig Museum (cat.) |
| Ljubljana, Zvezdni prah, Galerija Kresija (cat.) |
| Istanbul, Love it or leave it, Goethe Institut |
| Izmir, Love it or leave it, Goethe Institut |
| Ankara, Love it or leave it, Goethe institut |
| Ljubljana, :Kaj storiti z avdiovizualnimiarhivi ? Galerija Kapelica, SCCA |
| Sharjah, 7th Sharjah biennial (cat.) |
| Ljubljana, Teritoriji, identitete, mreze, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana |
| Istanbul, 9th Istanbul Biennial (cat.) |
| Ljubljana, Politike Slikarstva, Cankarjev dom (cat.) |
| Ljubljana, 26th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Cankarjev dom (cat.) |
| Hong Kong, Power Plays, Para/Site Art Space (cat.) |
| Bergamo, War is Over, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo |
| IRWIN Selected SOLO Exhibitions and Projects - 2006 |
| Vienna, Like to Like, Grita Insam Galllery |
| Budapest, Seleted works, Erika Deak Gallery |
| Istanbul, Solo exhibition, Gallery Akbank sanat |
| Dubrovnik, Like to Like, Art Centre Lazareti |
| IRWIN Selected GROUP Exhibitions and Projects - 2006 |
| Vienna,Erste Bank Collection, MUMOK, Vienna (cat.) |
| Havana, group exibition |
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