+ GETTING HERE The e v a Mission City is located only 20 kilometres from e v+ a, a collaboration among artists, curators, sponsors, workers and committee members, (1 hour flight from London). presents yearly to audiences of and in Limerick the testimony that the best of contemporary art Shannon Airport is at the heart of the Region and offers for the assessment, understanding and celebration of the contemporary culture that there are scheduled flights, daily, on a year-round

surrounds us. Belfast basis to and from Dublin, London, Paris and other IRELAND’S PRE-EMINENT ANNUAL EXHIBITION UK, European and US destinations. OF CONTEMPORARY ART, THE 31ST + The e v a Story Full details of flights can be found at

Dublin www.shannonairport.com. 1977 Limerick-based artists join together to initiate OPEN e v+ a as the best way their work can Galway make direct collaborative contact with audiences. Ever since, e v+ a has remained an open- Useful website addresses are: www.aerlingus.com, www.ryanair.com Sponsors submission exhibition that encourages all artists worldwide to enter work in any and all materials, Shannon media, design practices and representational styles. LIMERICK There are regular bus and train services to and 1979 an adjudication process is established that each year gives full curatorial authority to a single, from Limerick. Details can be found on the

internationally renown curator, usually an ‘outsider’, unfamiliar with the Irish art scene, whose Cork following websites: sole decisions assess the submissions, select and lay out the exhibited works in the various Bus: www.buseireann.ie OPEN 2007 venues, determine the awards and present a catalogue statement/essay on the whole e v+ a Train: www.irishrail.ie experience. + A SENSE OF PLACE 1986 YOUNG e v a is initiated which annually brings together young adults and contemporary artists in a series of workshops that lead to a variety of exhibitions. Acknowledgements John Gleeson m.p.artproductions The greatest thanks go to all The - Pat Mulcair 1989 The YOUNG e v+ a programme establishes Artists in the Gallery, day-long encounters the artists participating by Virginia Teehan and staff O’Brien Books between e v+ a artists and audiences, young and old, who discuss the issues and practices at submission and selection. Le Cheile Kathleen O'Connor the heart of contemporary art. Image Supply Systems Paul O’Connor Bank of Ireland - Derville Murphy Brendan Nourse, Niall Helen O'Donnell 1992 Under the guidance of successive adjudicators the annual OPEN e v+ a moves out beyond Belltable Art Centre - O’Callahan The Old Quarter Limerick’s formal art gallery space into alternative ‘gallery’ venues and off-site spaces in centre Peter McNamara, Karl Wallace King Johns Castle - Robin Pamar city Limerick and beyond. & Declan McLoughlin Roma O’Connor, Dolores Deirdre Power CURATOR: KLAUS OTTMANN (GERMANY/USA) Bothar Marren, Mary O’Dwyer Perry Rubenstein Gallery - 1994 INVITED e v+ a, a special section is initiated every other year in which the OPEN e v+ a Bourn Vincent Gallery - Kollins Communications - John O’Hara 30 MARCH - 24 JUNE 2007 adjudicator of the year personally invites the participation of artists of international standing John Logan, Yvonne Davis, Gary Pinke Perys Great Western Hotel and experience, curates and places their work in Limerick city and its environs to provide an Giovanna Rendina Jack Liddane The Railway Hotel instructive counterpart to the OPEN e v+ a section. Dave Carugo Limerick City Council - Martin Shannon Conradh na Gaeilge Kieran Lehane, Pat Dowling Shannon International Airport - 1997 The e v+ a Colloquies on Contemporary Art and Culture begin as an event that alternates DC Electrical - John Deegan & Liz Creamer Claire McEnery every other year with INVITED e v+ a.It consists of a weekend programme of informal discussion Diocesian Office - Limerick City Library Signcraft - 32 ARTISTS AT 9 VENUES AND CITYWIDE LOCATIONS and argument among returning past e v+ a adjudicators, invited guests, artists and audiences Most Rev. Donal Murray, D.D. Limerick Chamber of Commerce Des Kingston, Dave Griffin Limerick Leader John Sisk and Sons - devoted to making sense and meaning out of how contemporary art and culture interact. Doras Luimni Du Carte Restaurant Limerick Post - Rose Rushe Joe Byrne, Billy Higgins 2005-07 Now at the close of its third decade, e v+ a remains an artist-centred exhibition, the Executive Travel - Mary Collins Limerick School of Art & Design- St. Mary’s Cathedral - Dean Sirr LIMERICK CITY GALLERY OF ART best of its kind in Ireland, open to all artists everywhere and to work in all media, materials, FÁS Richard Ruth, Breda Lynch, and Noreen & Andrew Ellerker methods, styles and practices. Mikael Fermstrom The Security Staff Umbrella Project - Fine Art Transport - Matt Kelly Productions Paddy O’Donovan, Gerry Kirby BELLTABLE ARTS CENTRE BOURN IMAGE Angela & Tony Magennis Sean Kelly’s Bookshop Catherine Wallack VINCENT SUPPPLY The plus sign (+) placed with the word ‘visual+’in the exhibition’s title and with the letter ‘v+’ in the logo, Ann Foley Gerry Meagher White House Pub GALLERY SYSTEMS does not represent the conjunction ‘and’. Rather, it stands as a reminder that art as product and process THE HUNT MUSEUM engages and integrates all the senses, not mainly or only the visual sense. All art springs from how we Every effort has been made to ensure that details are correct at time of going to press. perceive through all our – at psychology’s recent count – eleven senses. There’s more to art than meets THE BOURN VINCENT GALLERY the eye or ‘I’. e v+ a PUBLICATIONS AT A full-colour catalogue will be published to document + Past e v a curators: 1977 - 2006 e v+ a 2007. For this and previous catalogues contact THE CHURCH GALLERY 2006 Katerina Gregos(Greece) 2005 Dan Cameron 2004 Zdenka Badovinac(Slovenia) 2003 Virginia Perez- Gandon Editions: [email protected] AT LIMERICK SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN Ratton 2002 2001 2000 (Costa Rica) Apinan Poshyananda(Thailand) Salah M. Hassan(Sudan/U.S.A) Rosa Martínez ev+a ev+a ev+a (Spain) 1999 Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn(USA) , 1998 Paul M. O’Reilly(Ireland) * 1997 Invited Exhibition: c/o Limerick City Gallery of Art c/o Belltable Arts Centre The Arts Service ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL Cross/Foley/O’Connell 1996 Guy Tortosa (France) 1995 Maria de Corral(Spain) 1994 Jan Hoet(Belgium) ; 1993 Carnegie Building 69 O’Connell Street Limerick City Council Gloria Moure (Spain) 1992 Lars Nittve(Sweden ) 1991 Germano Celant(Italy) 1990 Saskia Bos(Netherlands) 1989 Limerick City Hall KING JOHN’S CASTLE Invited Exhibition: Recent Work of Prize-winners 1984-1988 1988 Florent Bex (Belgium)Alexandre Roshin Limerick Limerick Corporate Patrons Tel: 353 [0] 61 318240 (USSR);** 1987 Ida Panicelli(Italy) 1986 Nabuo Nakamura(Japan) 1985 Rudi Fuchs(Netherlands) 1984 Peter Fuller Ireland Fax: 353 [0] 61 318241 Tel: +353 [0] 61 407421 ISTABRAQ HALL AND THE GLAZED STREET CHORUS CARR & ASSOCIATES ROADBRIDGE (England) 1983 Invited Exhibition: Recent work of Past Prize-winners 1982 Liesbeth Brandt Corstius(Netherlands) Tel: +353 [0] 61 310633 AT CITY HALL, LIMERICK CITY COUNCIL MICHAEL McNAMARA & SONS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MICHAEL LYNCH & SONS 1981 Pierre Restany(France) 1980 Brian O’Doherty(USA ) 1979 Sandy Nairne(England) 1978 Adrian Hall, Fax: +353 [0] 61 310228 Mob: +353 [0] 87 94 77 042 Email [email protected] ITT FLYGT YOUNG WHITE & GREEN Charles Harper, Theo McNab, Colin Murray (Ireland)* 1977 Barrie Cooke, John Kelly, Brian King(Ireland)* . PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS BRUCE SHAW SHANNON AIRPORT *exceptions to the rule of outside adjudication. **Both worked independently, with the same submissions; each producing Email [email protected] Email [email protected] their own separate e v+ a; which ran consecutively with a 25% crossover in the selections. www.eva.ie www.eva.ie OPEN 2007

R. B 6 A Sense of Place 1 LIMERICK CITY GALLERY OF ART 6 2 BELLTABLE ARTS CENTRE KING JOHN’S CASTLE PERY SQUARE 061 310633 69 O’CONNELL STREET 061- 319866 NICHOLAS STREET, KING’S ISLAND 061 411201 Mon-Fri 10-6, Thurs 10-7, Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5 Mon – Fri 10 – 5 and evenings with scheduled theatre performances Mon-Sun 10 - 5 Joh n's Ca "Where are we at all? and whenabouts in the name of space?" David DUNNE (Ireland) Stat mixed-media installation Shelley CORCORAN (Ireland) See colour photographs Aura ROSEsNtlBeERG (USA) Ang ion Z, ing Ry els of Spiri an Ai Histo Melissa EARLEY (Ireland) Agne performancet & Si on 29 March Patrick CORCORAN (Ireland) Trac mixed-mediar installation at Limerick digital photograph on banner near Thomondry: T hBridge —James Joyce, Finnegans Wake s Dei new e ames

Barry FOLEY (Ireland) Fo mixed-media City Bookstores THORNS Ltd. (Jon WESSELTOFT, Snorre RUCH) (Norway) Pie llow t SHANNON RIVER ce Fo he Pa r King Eric GLAVIN (Canada) Unt wall paintingth of E Conor MCGARRIGLE (Ireland) Unr video sound installation itled nligh eliabl tenme 5 e Nar Tony GUNNING (Ireland) consult titles at venue 6 paintingsnt Marie-Louise O’DWYER (Ireland) Kitch rativideoon en Cle For art to be experienced or observed, it has to be emplaced — put in place, however Ashley HOLMES (USA / N.Ireland) In 3 paintings Christopher REID (Ireland) T 6 colouran photographs 7 CHURCH GALLERY side he Co Out 4 nvent + Eithna JOYCE (Ireland) consult titles at venue 4 paintings MARY Matthew SCHENNING (USA) Sub colour photographs.- LIMERICK SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN CLARE STREET 061 208398 temporarily. An national exhibition with an international character such as e v a, which is urban Rene Jesper JUST (Denmark) It Wil video projection Consult titles at venues wal Mon – Fri 9:30 – 4:30 l All STREE rooted deeply in one place, one history, and one culture, yet embraces the right to diversity End In Orla KEESHAN (Ireland) Too L Tear Anthony MCCALL (USA) Betwe light sculpture ost to s en Yo 3 photographs Think GEORGE 3 THE HUNT MUSEUM u and within its borders, must inevitably focus on the the dialectic of emplacement and or Cr I y of Ta ABBEY RIVER'S QU T Sean LYNCH (Ireland) Che poster lk, I m RUTLAND STREET 061 312833 8 BOURN VINCENT GALLERY Str ade T AY ided B ea CLARE S displacement. The Irish poet Seamus Heaney speaks of the "two often contradictory Vanessa MaArReS FH (Ireland) The DUBLIN Mon-Sat 10 – 5; Sun 2 – 5 FOUNDATION BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK 061 203052 jord only p TREET lace 3 8 or consult titles at venueth depending on space 2 ST. Margot MCLEAN (USA) B mixed-media installation Mon – Fri 10 – 4:30 e plac irds demands" under which Irish poets labor: "To be faithful to the collective historical experience e wh ENNIS RD. paintings ere y Joanne LEFRAK (USA) S mixed-media installation ou are TRICK ST. uper ; Map SARSFIELD BR. Servic and to be true to the recognitions of the emerging self." According to Heaney, the two ways Eamon O’KANE (Ireland) Re video PA 4 CITY HALL e Driv gener 7 e In ation ARTHU Alix PEARLSTEIN (USA) Di video projection QUAY MICHAEL MERCHANT’S QUAY 061 407421 9 SHANNON AIRPORT stan R'S in which a place is known — one is the lived and illiterate; the other, learned and literate ce QU PARK Andrei ROITER (Russia/USA/ Holland) M Mon – Fri 10 – 5 SHANNON, CO. CLARE 087 94 77 042 onum AY ent DENMARK S To M Istabraq Hall: — co-exist "in a conscious and unconscious tension" in the artistic sensibility. For three mixed-media sculpture y Chil Sean LYNCH (Ireland) Che poster dhood JOHN'S STREET Aura ROSENBERG (USA) Ang digital photograph HONAN'S Amy HAUFT (USA) Fog site-specific installation el of Area months, the City of Limerick will be the limit and the condition of all the art and related Histor / Wa 10 LIMERICK POST on banner facing Pery Square y: A CRUISES Ronnie HUGHES (Ireland) Ne term drawings lba STREET LELIA w E ark tross T. nglan FREE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER 087 94 77 042 Siobhán TATTAN (Ireland) B video installation Glazed Street: d events, where the artistic sensibilities of those at home and those displaced will co-exist rillia ON nt Fa Aura ROSENBERG (USA) From digital Suzannah VAUGHAN (Ireland) E mixed-mediailures sculpture AY Wolfgang STAEHLE (Germany/USA) L digital xit ST. udlo The A w Stre photograph ngel in conscious and unconscious tension. WILLIAM STREE photography et, M of His ay 2, tory Series SHANN 2006 T Main Entrance: VEY'S QU JOHN'S R 11 CITYWIDE PERFORMANCE THOMAS STREET SQUARE Aura ROSENBERG (USA) Angel digital photograph on RIVER HA of H Klaus Ottmann, T istory MONDAY BANK HOLIDAY 7 MAY 2007 11:15 – 11:45 087 94 77 042 SHANNON banner above main entrance : Met GRIFFIN STREE Miriam LOHAN (Ireland) Ring the bells of Limerick City SHANNON BRIDGE ing Li Curator meric 5 ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL Churches k CECIL STREET LR. GERALD BRIDGE STREET 061 310293 Mon –Fri 9 – 5 Sat 9 – 1 (outside times of Services)

Eyes: Writings on Art, 1977–2005 T ROCHES STREE HENRY STREET Melissa EARLEY (Ireland) Agne video s Dei Enrique MARTÍNEZ CELAYA Boy R sculpture STREE aisi ng His L Aura ROSENBERG (USA) Ange Arm digital T l of H Klaus Ottmann, an independent curator and scholar based in New York, is the author of GLENTWORTH STREET istor photograph y: Bir NNEL d of P numerousCondition articles, essays, and books on art and philosophy, including Thought Through My aradis e O'CO ; The Genius Decision: The Extraordinary and the Postmodern MALLOW STREET ; James Lee Byars: Life, Love, and Death; and The Essential Mark Rothko. Kooning and Chloe Piene HARTSTONGE2 STREE Ottmann has curated over forty exhibitions, including Still Points of the Turning World, SITE DOCK ROAD ARNELL STREET P Santa Fe's Sixth International Biennial; Bodies of Desire: Works on Paper by Willem de RAILWAY/ Retrospective 1 BUS STATION ; Life, Love, and Death: The Work of James Lee Byars, A Critical T ; and Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective. BARRING PEOPLE'S TON S PARK He is currently working on a book on the philosophy of the French painter Yves Klein and T. preparing a traveling survey of paintings and sculptures by the American artist Jennifer Bartlett, Jennifer Bartlett: After Rhapsody, scheduled to open in 2009.

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