ROSC 50 1967-1988 Rosc was a series of exhibitions of international art 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 Celtic Art, 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 modern art, 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 Ireland within an international art and the ongoing debate about context. the representation of Irish art 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 Art History of Art degree appointed Director of the Ireland Society established established in UCD Arts 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 Painting 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, Cork 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 History of Art 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 Derry 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 Easter Rising The term ‘Minimalist’ coined Outbreak of foot and mouth PLO established by Richard Wollheim UVF founded disease in United Kingdom ‘Eccentric Abstraction’ Arab-Israeli six day war US Civil Rights Act Donald Judd proposes a curated by Lucy Lippard Sony introduces the documenta III curated by new theory of Minimalist Portapak portable video Arnold Bode and Werner aesthetics 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 ‘Conceptual art’ in Paragraphs Minimalism 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 Dublin Society (R.D.S.) President of Ireland Pierre Alechinsky Joan Miró and the National Museum Éamon De Valera Karel Appel Barnett Newman Honorary President Francis Bacon Ben Nicholson Rosc ‘67 supplementary Charles J. Haughey, TD Lee Bontecou Kenneth Noland exhibition Minister for Finance Camille Bryen Kenzo Okada ‘Ancient Celtic Art (Bronze Age Tadeusz Brzozowski Gea Panter - Early Christian)’, National Rosc ‘67 Executive Alberto Burri Victor Pasmore Museum and Royal Dublin Committee José Luis Cuevas Pablo Picasso Society (R.D.S.) Michael Scott, Chairman Alan Davie Serge Poliakoff P. J. Brennan Jim Dine Robert Rauschenberg Rosc ‘67 Jury Anne Crookshank Jean Dubuffet Jean-Paul Riopelle James Johnson Sweeney R. R. Figgis Lucio Fontana Antonio Saura Director Museum of Fine Cecil King Sam Francis Toko Shinoda Arts, Houston M. K. O’Doherty Hans Hartung 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 Pierre Soulages Geneva Lester Johnson Pierre Tal-Coat Willem Sandberg Asger Jorn Antoni Tàpies Chairman Israel Museum, Willem De Kooning Mark Tobey Jerusalem Wilfredo Lam Günther Uecker Gerard Lataster Bram Van Velde John Latham Victor Vasarély Roy Lichtenstein Jaap Wagemaker Mary Martin Zao Wou-Ki Roberto Matta Echuarren Opening of Rosc ‘67, 13 November 1967 Opening of Rosc ‘67 by Charles Haughey. 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 paintings 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, University College Cork, 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 Northern Ireland Student protests in Paris for artists and other cities, including Charles J. Haughey and Exhibition of US and the National College of Art British troops deployed to Neil Blaney dismissed British Pop Art in TCD (NCA) Northern Ireland, marking as cabinet ministers for the start of the Troubles alleged involvement in Student protests at the Martin Luther King Jr. smuggling arms for the IRA National College of Art assassinated Samuel Beckett 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 Germany, 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 London 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 Royal Dublin Society (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 Louise Nevelson ‘Viking