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ROSC 50 1967-1988

Rosc was a series of exhibitions of international that took place approximately every four years between 1967 and 1988. This project, a collaboration with NIVAL, seeks to mark the 50th anniversary of the first exhibition in 1967 and to examine the importance of Rosc and its legacy. Patrick Scott, Small Rosc Symbol, 1967

Rosc, which means ‘poetry of Each Rosc exhibition was vision,’ was a series of international accompanied by a supplementary art exhibitions that took place in exhibition intended to create a various venues between 1967 dialogue with the main exhibition, and 1988. such as Ancient , Viking Age Art and the Avant-Garde in The first Rosc exhibition took place Russia. in 1967 and then approximately every four years until 1988. In Rosc attracted large audiences the absence of a museum of and public interest and there were , the purpose of the many controversies during its 21 Rosc exhibitions was to display years such as the movement of international modern and ancient monuments for the 1967 contemporary art for an Irish Rosc, the exclusion of Irish artists audience and also to situate from the first two Rosc exhibitions within an international art and the ongoing debate about context. the representation of and artists in Rosc. The first Rosc exhibition set out to show the work of the fifty ‘best’ The Rosc exhibitions are presented living artists who were selected here in a timeline so that they can by a jury of three international be situated within the changing selectors. social, political and cultural context of the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s. 1960- 1970

1960 1961 1962 1963

Fr. Donal O’Sullivan S. J. Last legal execution in Contemporary Irish of Art degree appointed Director of the Ireland Society established established in UCD Council Ireland submits application Niland Goulding Collection Kilkenny Design Independent Artists hold to join EEC established in Sligo Workshops set up first exhibition US President John F. First RTE broadcast Cuban Missile Crisis Patrick Scott represents Kennedy visits Ireland Graphic Print Studio Ireland at the Venice Vatican II Biennale established Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela civil rights activists march Trial of Adolf Eichmann imprisoned in South Africa on Washington Sharpeville massacre in in Jerusalem South Africa Algerian independence John F. Kennedy elected President John F. Kennedy from France Introduction of birth President of USA assassinated control pill Beginning of Fluxus Patrice Lumumba of Frankfurt Auschwitz trials movement Clement Greenberg Republic of Congo begin (1963-65) emphasises the assassinated Beginning of Viennese Bienal de São Paulo importance of ‘flatness’ in Actionism Modernist Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba The Great Experiment: Russian Art 1863-1922 by Construction of Berlin Wall Camilla Gray begins US military arrive in Vietnam Venice Biennale Bienal de São Paulo 1964 1965 1966 1967

‘Art: USA: Now’ exhibition, Arts Society founded Exhibition of Kinetic art at Project Arts Centre Municipal Gallery of the David Hendriks Gallery established Francis Bacon exhibition Modern Art Censorship of Publications at Municipal Gallery Department Act James White appointed established in TCD Director of the National Vietnam War begins Trinity Exhibition Hall Nelson’s Pillar on O’Connell Gallery of Ireland Malcolm X opened in TCD St. blown up by IRA P. J. Carrolls Annual Artist assassinated ‘Banners’ exhibition of US Civil Rights Movement art, TCD Prize inaugurated Art and Objecthood Michael founded in Fried criticises the tendency Aspen 5+6, first conceptual Martin Luther King Jr. wins towards ‘theatricality’ 50th anniversary of the exhibition outside the gallery the Nobel Peace Prize The term ‘Minimalist’ coined Outbreak of foot and mouth PLO established by UVF founded disease in ‘Eccentric Abstraction’ Arab-Israeli six day war US Civil Rights Act Donald Judd proposes a curated by Lucy Lippard Sony introduces the III curated by new theory of Minimalist Portapak portable video Arnold Bode and Werner in Specific ‘Primary Structures’ camera Haftmann Objects exhibition of American and British Minimalist art in The Term ‘Arte Povera’ introduced Venice Biennale Bienal de São Paulo Jewish Museum, NY by Germano Celant

Robert Morris develops a Sol LeWitt coins the term conceptual framework for ‘’ in Paragraphs in Notes on on Conceptual Art Sculpture 1-3 Venice Biennale Bienal de São Paulo Rosc ‘67

Rosc ‘67 Venue Rosc ‘67 Patron Rosc ‘67 Artists Manolo Millares Royal Society (R.D.S.) Joan Miró and the National Museum Éamon De Valera Honorary President Francis Bacon Ben Nicholson Rosc ‘67 supplementary Charles J. Haughey, TD Lee Bontecou exhibition Minister for Finance Camille Bryen Kenzo Okada ‘Ancient Celtic Art ( Tadeusz Brzozowski Gea Panter - Early Christian)’, National Rosc ‘67 Executive Museum and Royal Dublin Committee José Luis Cuevas Society (R.D.S.) Michael Scott, Chairman Alan Davie Serge Poliakoff P. J. Brennan Jim Dine Rosc ‘67 Jury Anne Crookshank Jean-Paul Riopelle James Johnson Sweeney R. R. Figgis Antonio Saura Director Museum of Fine Cecil King Toko Shinoda Arts, Houston M. K. O’Doherty Joseph Sima Jean Leymarie Dorothy Walker Frederich Stowasser K. R. H. Sonderborg Art Historian and Critic, Secretary: Hundertwasser Jésus-Raphael Soto Professor, University of Barbara Young Robert Indiana Geneva Lester Johnson Pierre Tal-Coat Willem Sandberg Asger Jorn Antoni Tàpies Chairman Israel Museum, Mark Tobey Jerusalem Wilfredo Lam Günther Uecker Gerard Lataster John Latham Victor Vasarély Roy Lichtenstein Jaap Wagemaker Mary Martin Zao Wou-Ki Echuarren Opening of Rosc ‘67, 13 November 1967 Opening of Rosc ‘67 by . Seated: Dr Willem (photo: Irish Photo Archive) Sandberg, Kevin O’Doherty, James Johnson Sweeney and J. D. J. Moore, 1967 (photo: Irish Photo Archive)

Rosc ‘67, (photo: Irish Photo Archive)

Rosc ‘67 attracted The Department of Education enabled all schools to considerable local and take a day to visit the Rosc exhibition. This policy was international interest with maintained for all subsequent Rosc exhibitions. large attendance figures and a range of critical responses. There was a public outcry about the inclusion of ancient monuments, some of which were removed from their ‘Rosc is one of the boldest permanent sites. and most illuminating international exhibitions ‘Examples of our ancient heritage, the majority of them religious of modern art ever held monuments, are being used as a gimmick to support a selection ... the new and the old of profane not one of which is more that four years salute each other over the old and none of which has been painted by an Irishman’ centuries ... Dublin has provided the ideal setting Michael O’Kelly, Professor of Archaeology, , 1967 for their astonishing encounter.’ Brendan Gill, ‘And maybe it is just as well that Ireland’s first introduction to The New Yorker, 1967 contemporary advanced art on a broad front did include so much of the fatigue of the fifties, and the fatigue of painting on the No Irish artists were Continent. At this point all of the novelty and razzmatazz of the included in Rosc ‘67. sixties might have been too bewildering.’ Clement Greenberg, Artforum, 1968 1970- 1980

1968 1969 1970 1971

‘Light and Movement’ Finance Act introduced Ban lifted on Catholics 1971 internment without exhibition in TCD by Charles J. Haughey attending Trinity College trial introduced in establishes tax exemption Dublin Student protests in for artists and other cities, including Charles J. Haughey and Exhibition of US and the National College of Art British troops deployed to dismissed British in TCD (NCA) Northern Ireland, marking as cabinet ministers for the start of alleged involvement in Student protests at the Martin Luther King Jr. smuggling arms for the IRA National College of Art assassinated wins Nobel (NCA) Prize for Literature ‘Arte Povera’ exhibition in Assassination of Robert the David Hendriks Gallery Women get the vote in Kennedy ‘Modern Irish Painting’ curated by Germano Switzerland tours to , England Celant ‘Prague Spring’ crushed and Scandanavia Robert Morris’s by Soviet troops Hans Haacke exhibition at ‘Bodyspacemotionthings’ Neil Armstrong lands on the Guggenheim cancelled exhibition at Tate Tet offensive and My Lai the moon massacre, Vietnam Venice Biennale Bienal de São Paulo ‘Anti-Illusion: Process/ Humanae Vitae, encyclical Materials’ exhibition in the by Pope Paul VI rejecting Whitney Museum, NY artificial contraception ‘Live in Your Head: When documenta IV curated by Attitudes Become Form’ 24-person council Kunsthalle, Bern, curated by Harald Szeemann Venice Biennale interrupted by student protests Bienal de São Paulo Rosc ‘71

Rosc ‘71 Venue Rosc ‘71 Patron Rosc ‘71 Artists Richard Paul Lohse (R.D.S.) President of Ireland Eva Aeppli René Magritte Rosc ‘71 supplementary Éamon De Valera Joseph Albers Robert Morris exhibition Honorary President Horst Antes ‘Viking Age Art’, Royal Dr Tim O’Driscoll Shusaku Arakawa Richard Oelze Honorary Vice-President Jagoda Buik Claes Oldenburg Dublin Society (R.D.S.) Charles J. Haughey, TD Pol Bury Pino Pascali Rosc ‘71 Satellite Michelangelo Pistoletto Exhibitions Rosc ‘71 Jury Giuseppe Capogrossi Arnulf Rainer ‘The Irish Imagination’ 1959- James Johnson Sweeney, César (Baldaccini) Bridget Riley 1971, Municipal Gallery of Director Museum of Fine Pierre Clerk Modern Art, curated by Brian Arts, Houston Dado (Miodrag Djuric) Niki de Saint Phalle O’Doherty K. G. Pontus Hultén, Director Lars Englund Lucas Samaras ‘Nineteenth-century art’, Moderna Museet, Stockholm Johannes Jacobus Crawford Gallery, Cork Werner Schmalenbach, Oywind Fahlstrom Schoonhoven ‘Irish glass’, Limerick Director Nordrhein-Westfalen Domenico Gnoli Emil Schumacher ‘Irish silver’, Dublin Museum, Düsseldorf Bruno Goller Henryk Stazewski ‘Irish delftware’, Kildare Rosc ‘71 Executive Committee Gotthard Graubner José Guerrero Kumi Sugai ‘International Graphics’, Michael Scott, Chairman Renato Guttuso Wayne Thiebaud Waterford Cecil King, Vice-Chairman Al Held Jean Tinguely ‘Young Irish Artists’, Galway Anne Crookshank Cy Twombly ‘Early Irish and Christopher Fitz-Simon Donald Judd Marie-Hélène Vierira da sculpture’, Mayo John McMahon Konrad Klapheck Silva ‘Jack B. Yeats and his Family’, Dorothy Walker Jiri Kola John Walker Sligo Secretary: Kenneth McQuillan Tom Wesselman ‘Folk art’, Kilkenny Administration: Richard Lindner Amanda Douglas Catherine O’Brien opens ROSC ‘71. Also Michael Scott and Student William Belton, NCA (now NCAD) protesting Charles J. Haughey seated in front of Al Held, Phoenicia VI, 1971 about the state of third level art eduction at the (photo: Irish Photo Archive) opening of Rosc ‘71. (photo: Irish Photo Archive)

No Irish artists were included in Rosc ‘71. The ‘Is Brian O’Doherty right when he jury to select artists for Rosc ‘71 insisted that the purpose of the exhibition was to bring art from says – in his interesting text for the abroad to the Irish public. catalogue of The Irish Imagination

As a consequence of the lack of representation of show – that, ‘With the decline of Irish artists in Rosc ‘71, a programme of associated , local art looks better’? exhibitions was implemented around the country including ‘The Irish Imagination’ in the Municipal Clement Greenberg, 1972 Gallery of Modern Art, curated by Brian O’Doherty; ‘Irish Art in the 19th Century’ in the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, curated by Cyril Barrett; and ‘Young Irish Artists’ in Galway.

‘The very idea of aesthetic, elitist standards which Sweeney accepts so unreservedly, and Schmalenbach questions so positively (see catalogue), is alien to a good deal of current thinking. The cultural neophyte who visits Rosc is not likely to come away with a realisation that participation rather than observation, processes rather than products, concepts rather than conclusions are the preferential concerns of a good deal of modern art.’ Bernard Denvir, Art International, 1972 Rosc Chorcaí 1975 Irish art 1900-1950 Cork

Rosc ‘75 did not happen due to financial constraints; however ,the Cork Rosc committee, Rosc Chorcaí, decided to procede with their exhibition ‘Irish art from 1900 to 1950’ curated by Hilary Pyle.

1972 1973 1974 1975

‘’ 14 civil Ireland joins the European Dublin - Monaghan Colm Ó Briain appointed rights marchers killed by Economic Community (EEC) bombings 34 people killed Director of the Arts Council British army paratroopers ‘Irish Exhibition of Living by UVF in Derry First personal computers Art’ includes categories Grapevine Arts Centre become commercially Brian O’Doherty changes of traditional and established (later City Arts available his name to Patrick Ireland experimental media Centre) in a performance at Project Arts Council restructured US withdrawal from Arts Centre in protest at exhibition Vietnam Bloody Sunday shootings Roe vs Wade legalises ‘Secret Block for a Secret abortion in USA Person’ at the Municipal Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge Structure: A Magazine of Gallery of Modern Art, take control of Cambodia Art & Thought founded by US-backed coup in Chile, Dublin and Arts Council, artist Michael Kane General Pinochet ousts , and lecture tour to Death of General Franco, Salvadore Allende Watergate break-in, promote his idea of the Free Spain moves towards International University democracy Washington D.C. Yom Kippur war documenta V curated by Gallery of Photography Civil war in Lebanon OPEC oil embargo Harald Szeemann opens Bienal de São Paulo Venice Biennale Six Years: the Munich Olympics terrorist Dematerialisation of the Art attack Object from 1966 to 1972 by Lucy Lippard gives an Richard Nixon resigns account of Conceptual art Venice Biennale Bienal de São Paulo 1976 1977

Oliver Dowling Gallery Mairead Corrigan and established Betty Williams, founders of the peace movement in Soweto Anti-Apartheid Riots Northern Ireland, win the Nobel Peace Prize Apple computer company founded Exhibition of Visual Art (EV+A) established in Inside the White Cube: the Limerick Ideology of the Gallery Space, essays by Brian Patrick Ireland exhibits at O’Doherty in Artforum documenta VI curated by Manfred Schneckenburger Venice Biennale Centre Georges Pompidou opens in Paris Bienal de São Paulo Rosc ‘77

Rosc ‘77 Venue Rosc ‘77 Patron Rosc ‘77 Artists John Hoyland Municipal Gallery of Modern President of Ireland Eduardo Arroyo Patrick Ireland Art and National Museum Dr. Patrick J. Hillery Martin Barré Alain Jacquet Honorary President Janez Bernik Tadeusz Kantor Rosc ‘77 supplementary Dr Tim O’Driscoll Joseph Beuys R. B. Kitaj exhibition Honorary Vice-President Alberto Biasi Stanislav Kolíbal ‘Early Animal Art in Charles J. Haughey Christian Boltanski László Lakner ’, National Museum Marcel Broodthaers Jan Lebenstein Rosc ‘77 Committee Richard Long Rosc ‘77 Jury Michael Scott, Chairman Patrick Caulfield Marcel Maeyer Ronald Alley, Cecil King, Vice-Chairman Mario Ceroli Kenneth Martin Keeper Modern Collection Cyril Barrett Christo (& Jeanne-Claude) Jacques Monory Tate Gallery Anne Crookshank James Coleman Georges Noël Dominique Fourcade, Christopher Fitz-Simon Gianni Colombo Roman Opałka critic and philosopher Sir Basil Goulding Jan Dibbets Giulio Paolini Ryszard Stanislawski, John Meagher Dušan Džamonja Arnulf Rainer Director Museum Sztuki, Dorothy Walker Lars Englund Carl Frederik Reuterswärd Lodz, Poland Secretary: Hamish Fulton Gerhard Richter Kenneth McQuillan Juan Genovés Klaus Rinke Finance: Zbigniew Gostomski Tim Scott Peter Owens Gerhard von Graevenitz Daniel Spoerri Administration: Richard Hamilton Takis Mimi Behncke Simon Hantaï Jef Verheyen Sara Horgan Władysław Hasior Claude Viallat David Hockney Carel Visser Phillippe Hoiassion Christo Wrapped Walk Ways (Project for St. Stephen’s Green Park – Dublin) 1977 in 2 parts: 55.9 x 71.1 cm and 55.9 x 71.1cm (22 x 28”) Pencil, fabric, charcoal, pastel, wax crayon, photographs, staples and map on card. Copyright Christo 1977.

James Coleman and Patrick ‘They [OPW] repeatedly asked if it was Ireland are the first Irish to advertise the product; the concept artists to be included in Rosc that the project would be considered as a was totally outside their Brian O’Doherty had changed experience.’ his name to Patrick Ireland in Dorothy Walker, 1997 1972 in protest at the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry. The documentation of that Christo was invited to create a work for Rosc ‘77. Name Change performance Wrapped Walk Ways was a proposal to wrap was excluded from the the walkways in St. Stephen’s Green in golden exhibition due to objections coloured fabric. The proposal was refused that it would offend the permission by the Office of Public Works (OPW). Unionist community in Northern Ireland. 1980- 1990

1978 1979 1980

The Gallery First papal visit to Ireland Sculptors’ Society of opens in TCD replacing Ireland established (later The Trinity Exhibition Hall Arrival of Vietnam refugees Association of Artists in in Ireland Ireland and then Visual Taylor Gallery, formerly the Artists Ireland) Dawson Gallery, opens in Health (Family Planning) Act Dublin regulating contraception World Congress of the International Association Orchard Gallery opens in ‘The Place of the Arts in of Art Critics (AICA), Dublin Derry Irish Education’ report of the Working Group appointed by ‘Sense of Ireland’ festival, RTE 2 launched the Arts Council. London, intended to promote a positive view of Protests at building of Introduction of Sony Ireland during the Troubles civic offices at Wood Walkman Quay, the site of a former in Northern Ireland Viking settlement Iranian revolution, first Paris Biennale de Jeunes Islamic Republic founded ‘Transavanguardia’ included three Irish artists movement of Italian elected two of whom were from Neo-Expressionists Prime Minister of the Northern Ireland, prompting United Kingdom a diplomatic crisis Venice Biennale Soviet invasion of US and world economy in Afghanistan recession Bienal de São Paulo Venice Biennale Rosc ‘80

Rosc ‘80 Venue Rosc ‘80 Patron Rosc ‘80 Artists Louis le Brocquy School of Architecture, U.C.D., President of Ireland Magdalena Abakanowicz Sol LeWitt Earlsfort Terrace and National Patrick J. Hillery Marina Abramovic and Robert Mangold Gallery of Ireland Honorary President Ulay Agnes Martin Rosc ‘80 supplementary Charles J. Haughey Laurie Anderson Mario Merz exhibition Honorary Vice-President Marta Minujín ‘Chinese Art’, National Dr Tim O’Driscoll Lucio Munoz Gallery of Ireland Bram Bogart Leopoldo Nóvoa Rosc ‘80 Committee Rosc ‘80 associated Daniel Buren Dennis Oppenheim Michael Scott, Chairman exhibitions Peter Campus Nam June Paik Dorothy Walker, Vice- Rosc Chorcaí ‘80, ‘Irish Louis Cane Roger Palmer Chairman Art 1943-1973’, curated Rafael Canogar Giuseppe Penone Cyril Barrett by Cyril Barrett, Crawford Robert Cottingham James Reineking Anne Crookshank Municipal Gallery Michael Craig-Martin* Manuel Rivera J.B. Kearney Shannon Rosc Walter De Maria Nigel Rolfe* Cecil King Koji Enokura Rosc ‘80 International Advisors Ulrich Ruckreim Jose Luis Fajardo Kikuo Saito James Johnson Sweeney (USA) John Meagher Barry Flanagan* Miriam Schapiro Georges Boudaille (France) Hon. Secretary: Jochen Gerz Ben Schonzeit Germano Celant (Italy) Kenneth McQuillan Raymond Girke Patrick Scott Johannes Cladders (Federal Hon. Treasurer: Red Grooms William Scott* German Republic) Patrick J. Murphy Duane Hanson Charles Simonds Rudi Fuchs (Holland) Administration: Timothy Hennessy Kenneth Snelson Jorge Glusberg (Argentina) Mimi Behnke Edward Kienholz Saul Steinberg Werner Hofmann (Federal Dorothy Molloy Brian King Günther Uecker German Republic) Jenny Haughton Jannis Kounellis Miguel Logrono (Spain) Jerry Zeniuk Tadeo Ogura () Ryszard Stanislawski (Poland) * born or resident in the UK Marina Vaizey (Great Britain) Argentinian artist Marta Minujín constructed a replica of the Martello Tower in Sandycove associated with James Joyce, using 5,000 loaves of Downes’ Buttercrust bread. At the end of the event, the tower was turned on its side and the loaves were given away to the public. (photo: Dorothy Walker Estate)

Ulay/Marina Abramović, Rest Energy, Performance for Video, 4 minutes ROSC’ 80, Dublin, 1980

Marina Abramović and Ulay perform Rest Energy, 1980, for Clement Greenberg with a the first time at Rosc ‘80. Ulay held a sprung steel arrow loaf of Buttercrust bread from Marta pointing directly at Abramovic’s heart for four minutes. Minujín’s James Joyce Tower. (photo:© Ulay/Marina Abramović, Courtesy of the Marina Abramović Archives)

Performance and live art were Rosc ‘80 coincided with the 14th Congress of the included in Rosc for the first International Association of Art Critics (AICA) held in Dublin resulting in substantial international exposure time. 14 artists were invited to to Rosc. The theme of the Congress was ‘International create site-specfic works or live Influence on Local Art Communities.’ performances. Artists included Laurie Anderson, Timothy Hennessy, Marina Abramovic ‘I think the word “Rosc” should be and Ulay, Nam June Paik, Nigel substituted with the word “Rubbish”’ Rolfe and Marta Minujin. letter to , 16 August 1980

Untitled No. 7, 1980 by the American artist Agnes Martin was shown in Rosc ‘80 and was subsequently purchased by the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art. Rosc ‘80 was the first exhibition where The purchase of the abstract painting there was an increased representation engendered considerable public criticism, most notably from of Irish artists including Robert Ballagh, on RTE’s Late Late Show. Louis le Brocquy, Brian King, and Patrick Scott. 1981 1982 1983 1984 MP dies Corporal punishment in Referendum led to the 15 year old Ann Lovett dies while on IRA schools banned eighth amendment to the giving birth in a grotto in along with nine others constitution preventing Co. Longford Hyde Park and Regent’s abortion from being Guinness Peat Aviation Park bombings by IRA legalised US President Ronald awards for Emerging Artists Reagan visits Ireland 38 prisoners escape from Circa art magazine founded the Maze prison in Belfast Dublin Area Rapid Transit Sabra and Shantila (DART) begins Black Church Print Studio massacre in Lebanon ‘Six Artists from Ireland: An founded Royal Hospital Kilmainham Death of Brezhnev Aspect of Irish Painting’, restored Aosdána established exhibition by the Arts ‘Zeitgeist’ exhibition in Council and the Cultural The Irish Association of 1981 Section 32 of Berlin curated by Norman Relations Committee of Art Historians organised Finance Act established Rosenthal the Department of Foreign a symposium Rosc to provide tax relief on Affairs Reconsidered, in NCAD, to contributions to the documenta VII curated by reflect on the significance advancement of the arts Rudi Fuchs Temple Bar Gallery and Studios founded of Rosc. Venice Biennale Ronald Reagan elected Miners’ strike in UK president of USA Bienal de São Paulo Brighton bombing by IRA ‘A New Spirit of Painting’ exhibition at the Royal , or the Academy, London, examines Cultural Logic of Late the contemporary state of Capitalism, Fredric painting Jameson Bienal de São Paulo Venice Biennale Rosc ‘84

Rosc ‘84 Venue Rosc ‘84 Patron Rosc ‘84 Artists Anselm Kiefer Guinness Hop Store President of Ireland John Aiken Cecil King Dr Patrick J. Hillery Jean-Michel Alberola Jannis Kounellis Rosc ‘84 supplementary Honorary President Carl Andre Bob Law exhibition Charles J. Haughey Robert Barry Richard Long Exhibition of Drawings by Honorary Vice-President Georg Baselitz Markus Lüpertz Joseph Beuys Dr Tim O’Driscoll Peter Bömmels Anne Madden Rosc ‘84 Deborah Brown Robert Morris Rosc ‘84 Executive Louis Cane David Nash International Advisors Committee: The Earl of Iveagh (Ireland) Alan Charlton Bruce Nauman Patrick J. Murphy, Sandro Chia Eilis O’Connell James Johnson Sweeney Chairman (USA) Francesco Clemente Mimmo Paladino Kenneth McQuillan, Barrie Cooke A. R. Penck Karl Ruhrberg (Federal Deputy Chairman German Republic) Tony Cragg Beverly Pepper Michael Scott, Founder Enzo Cucchi Sigmar Polke Diane Waldman (USA) Peter Doyle Nobuo Nakamura (Japan) Martin Disler David Salle Vincent Ferguson J. G. Dokoupil & W. Dahn Julian Schnabel Count Panza Di Biumo (Italy) Patrick J. McKenna Illa Kodicek (U.K.) Felim Egan Seán Scully Rosemarie Mulcahy Tom Fitzgerald Richard Serra Fritz Becht (Netherlands) Mike Murphy (resigned.) Gérard Garouste Joel Shapiro Noel Sheridan Gilbert & George Vladimir Velickovic Noel Wallace Leon Golub Emo Verkerk Rosc ‘84 Council Administration: Bryan Hunt Michael Warren Cyril Barrett Siuban Barry Albert Irvin Lawrence Weiner Cecil King Anya von Gosseln Donald Judd Frans Widerberg Gordon Lambert Anish Kapoor Bill Woodrow John Meagher Dorothy Walker Opening night of Rosc ‘84, Guinness Hop Store. (photo: Irish Photo Archive) Lawrence Weiner ‘Stone upon Stone upon Fallen Stone’ 1983, Cloch ós cionn cloiche ós cionn cloch leagtha’, Rainsford Street, Guiness Hop Store.

1984 ‘Sean’s Spiral’ Richard Serra, Sugar House Lane, Guinness Hop Store.

Joseph Beuys and President Patrick Hillary, 1984, (photo: Irish Photo Archive)

Further controversy over the inclusion American artists Richard Serra and of Irish artists resulted in the Lawrence Weiner created site-specific withdrawal of a juror, the withdrawal works for Rosc which can still be seen. of funding by Guinness Peat Aviation and the selection of ten Irish artists Serra created a triangular steel spiral, to be included in Rosc ‘84 by architect ‘Sean’s Spiral’ which is embedded in the Ronald Tallon. cobbles on Sugar House Lane near the Guinness Hop Store. Weiner created a ‘There is a lot of art in Ireland, but text work ‘Stone upon Stone upon Fallen not of a quality to rank with the Stone’ 1983, Cloch ós cionn cloiche ós forty best artists in the world’ cionn cloch leagtha’ on an external wall Fritz Becht, juror, Rosc ‘84 on Rainsford Street.

‘What we wanted were the fifty most important artists of the last four years. If they were Irish, I would be happy to have fifty Irish artists’ Patrick J. Murphy, Chairman, Rosc ‘84 1985 1986 1987 1988

The Centre for Culture and First baby born in Ireland IRA killed 11 people at Dublin celebrates its Arts established in the by IVF Enniskillen millennium Royal Hospital Kilmainham Referendum to legalise Exhibiton ‘The Irish Women Major anti-apartheid First Ryanair flight divorce defeated Artists’ in Douglas Hyde protest in Dublin Gallery, National Gallery of Anglo-Irish Agreement Founding of Womens Ireland and the Municipal Murder of ‘Gibralter three’ signed Action Group (WAG) by Gallery of Modern Art by SAS. Michael Stone Pauline Cummins murders three at funeral Health Act enables First Palestinian Intifada of ‘Gibralter three’ and two contraceptives to be sold RHA Gallagher Gallery Black Monday - stock British soldiers murdered without prescription opened market crash at funeral of Michael Stone’s victims Gorbachev becomes leader Per-cent-for art scheme documenta VIII curated by of the Soviet Union established by Deptartment Manfred Schneckenburger heckles of the Environment Pope John Paul II at the Bienal de São Paulo Bienal de São Paulo Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Ukraine Venice Biennale Venice Biennale Rosc ‘88

Rosc ‘88 Venue Rosc ‘88 Patron Rosc ‘88 Artists Olle Kåks Guiness Hop Store & Royal President of Ireland Davida Allen Cecil King Hospital Kilmainham Dr Giovanni Anselmo Wolfgang Laib Rosc ‘88 supplementary Honorary President Bertrand Lavier exhibition Charles J. Haughey John-Charles Blais Christopher Le Brun ‘The George Costakis Honorary Vice-President Jonathan Borofsky Keith Looby Collection of the Avant- Dr Tim O’Driscoll Brian Bourke Olli Lyytikäinen Garde in Russia’, Rosc ‘88 Council Günter Brus Ian McKeever Royal Hospital Kilmainham Cyril Barrett Ricardo Cavallo Brice Marden Vincent Ferguson James Coleman Gerhard Merz Rosc ‘88 Executive Gordon Lambert Robert Combas Tomoharu Murakami Committee John Meagher Richard Deacon Elizabeth Murray Patrick J. Murphy, Chairman Dorothy Walker Erik Dietman István Nádler Kenneth McQuillian, Deputy Luciano Fabro Tony O’Malley Chairman Rosc ‘88 Jury Mary Fitzgerald Mike Parr Peter Doyle Knyston McShine, Senior Ferrán García Sevilla Kathy Prendergast Brian Ferran Curator, MoMA Anthony Gormley Tim Rollins & K.O.S. Ted Hickey Olle Granath, Director Rolf Hanson José María Sicilia Mike Murphy Moderna Museet, Stockholm Jenny Holzer Hiroshi Sugimoto Michael Scott Patrick J. Murphy, Chairman Rebecca Horn Francis Tansey Noel Sheridan Shoichi Ida Shigeo Toya Catalogue editor: Rosc ‘88 International Advisory Cristina Iglesias Jeff Wall Rosemarie Mulcahy Committee Neil Jenney Terry Winters Administration: The Earl of Iveagh (Ireland) Bill Jensen Gilberto Zorio Siuban Barry Jean-François de Canchy Catherine O’Brien (France) Sarah Foster Rudi Fuchs (Netherlands) Toshio Hara (Japan) F. Donald Kenney (USA) Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey views From the Animal Farm: Charles J. Haughey, 1988, Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (photo: Irish Photo Archive)

Rosc Na N-Óg (Young Rosc) a guide for young people to a selection of artworks featured in Rosc ‘88

Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (Kids of Survival), The supplementary exhibition for Rosc ‘88 was the Costakis Collection of Russian which comprises a group of high-school Suprematist and Constructivist Art, which students from the South Bronx, in New was exhibited in the newly-restored Royal York, and their art teacher Tim Rollins, were Hospital Kilmainham. Curated by Angelica Zander Rudenstein and assisted by invited to create a work for Rosc ‘88. Using Ruairí Ó Cuiv, it included work by Kasimir the subject of George Orwell’s book Animal Malevich, , Ivan Kliun, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova and Alexandr Farm, they created an interpretation of Rodchenko. Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey depicted as a hound in From the Animal Farm: Charles J. Haughey, 1988. 1990-

1989 1990 1991

Irish Art of the Eighties Rubicon Gallery opens in Dublin is European Capital – Nature & Culture, Dublin of Culture Sexuality & Gender, Myth Irish Art of the Eighties – & Mystification, Douglas The Irish Museum of Modernism & Abstraction, Hyde Gallery Modern Art opens to the Politics & Polemics, public Guildford Four released Douglas Hyde Gallery from prison Declan McGonagle The Future of Rosc, appointed Director of the symposium held in NCAD Irish

Tianamen Square becomes massacre, Beijing the first female President of Ireland ‘It is fitting, if only in retrospect, that Fall of the Berlin Wall IMMA should have been the proposed Venice Biennale World Wide Web developed venue for the Rosc that did not happen, Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc for since 1991 the museum has focused removed from Federal much of its energies on bringing first- Plaza in NY rate art from around the world to Dublin. ‘Les Magiciens de la terre’ In this sense, it is taking on the burden exhibition in Paris that Rosc shouldered for two decades.’ Bienal de São Paulo Dorothy Walker, 1997