IM/PERMINENT RECOLLECTION

This exhibition, initiated by curator Pippa Little, gathered eleven artists from Ireland and abroad and asked them to create a piece of work based on the Limerick City Gallery of Art's (LCGA) permanent collection.

"Our futile attempts to preserve memories against the tide of time and the transience of the collection in the face of nature is a subject of Alan Magees installation Im/permanent Recollection in the South gallery. Recording the majesty and domination of nature is a common Romantic artistic aim, here unsettled by the modern concrete white cube. The dramatic and fleeting sea and sky-scapes which are looped to pull day and night backwards and forwards, throws into perspective the insignificance of mankind. The sense of the theatrical is heightened by the harsh, monumental concrete cubes whose swirls and stains correspond to the gallery floor. They are hollow props, destined for consignation into oblivion."
Pippa Little, Curator LCGA.