Contrapposto

The website of Irish art critic Cristín Leach Hughes

200 words & audio: Hans Josephsohn at Lismore Castle Arts

This summer-long show focuses on the work of an “elder statesman” of the international art world, whose work is not particularly well known in Ireland.

200 words: Deirdre McLoughlin – Shaping the Void

McLoughlin is based in Amsterdam but honed her skills as a ceramicist during the 1980s in Japan, where the term ceramic sculpture is not considered an oxymoron.

200 words: on Eilís O’Connell

Those fortunate enough to encounter Eilís O’Connell’s sculpture outdoors know that her artworks call out to be touched.

200 words: on Michael Warren

Michael Warren’s modernist sculptures have been a distinctive presence in the Irish landscape since 1979.

200 words: on Lynda Benglis

Lynda Benglis’ art embraces contradiction: her solid puddles of poured pigment are carefully orchestrated accidents, her wall-mounted sculptures are about to take flight. She plays soft against hard, bonding male to female with tooled metallic pleats, folds and bows.  Siren (1978) and Minos (1987) are vaguely sexual wedges, as though squashed into shape by thighs. [...]