On Seeing Only Totally New Things
Gavin Murphy
RHA
Hardcover
163 pages
190×240 mm
2012
ISBN: Not available
Gavin Murphy’s ‘On Seeing Only Totally New Things’ is a gorgeous book
with the IMCO complex at its core. Within, there are a series of texts by
other contributors (by Patrick T. Murphy of the Royal Hibernian Academy,
James Merrigan, Dr. Ellen Rowley, Catherine Croft, Chris Fite-Wassilak),
as well as documentation of three of Murphy’s recent exhibitions
(including the film ‘Something New Under the Sun’, bringing Bernard
and IMCO to eva International and the RHA in 2012), a book-within-a-book
in which Murphy examines Bernard’s career, and a collection of ephemera, artefacts, and photographed texts around the subject. There’s a very successful breadth to the project, speaking at once to Murphy’s judgement, ambition, and detective work, and also to the value of a building’s story being approached by someone whose practice is not pure architecture or architectural history. It feels like an expanded archive, driven by both personal and intellectual curiosity, and it’s genuinely exciting as a reader to be presented with the outcome.
Gavin Murphy is a Dublin-based artist and curator with a long engagement with artist-led projects and collaborative initiatives. He is currently a director/curator of the artist–run space, Pallas Projects/Studios.
www.gavinmurphy.info
The RHA is an artist-led organisation, a 32-county body with charitable status. Its core remit is to support contemporary art and artists in Ireland through exhibition, education and advocacy.
