Comments on: Limerick City Gallery of Art – Noughties Exhibition

By: Benno (not XVI)

Benno (not XVI) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:32:55 +0000

The greatest sculpture since The Thinker by Rodin, and the prose accompaniment is the most elevating since Churchill's wartime speech We will fight on the beaches…We art lovers shall never surrender.

Will Seamus Nolan be elected a member of Aosdana?

By: artyeva

artyeva — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:27:44 +0000

just the usual verbose conceptual mumbo jumbo that art colleges drum into otherwise coherent young people. nice piece though. was that in the same show as some of Shinnor's crows?

By: Pope Epopt

Pope Epopt — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:04:41 +0000

Exactly.

A lot of conceptual art that rehashes work done 20, 30 or even 80 years ago is worth a wry smile or even a chuckle. It's the sheer weight of asinine verbiage that accompanies it makes a sickbag compulsory when trawling the galleries.

The problem is that for every practising artist there are two or three academics, administrators and journos, who have to say their piece to get paid.

However I guess it's 'mostly harmless' – they could be in 'financial services', I suppose.

By: Mad Dog

Mad Dog — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:27:50 +0000

Que….?

By: Bock

Bock — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:20:10 +0000

I wouldn't dismiss the work so casually. I'm talking about the nonsense printed on the card.

By: King's Bard

King's Bard — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:18:56 +0000

I want it to be known that although I too an drunk in Thailand the spammer wasn't me. Although I have a sneaky suspicion as to who it might be.
Beautiful artwork by the way makes me almost want to go home..what a load of self serving shite in the summation.

By: cat

cat — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:43:55 +0000

It really says what he thinks of the An Garda Siochana. That gibberish below indicated more clearly so- a load of crap!

By: Bock

Bock — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:01:03 +0000

Roosta — I don't know. You'd have to ask the person who wrote it .

Thaiman — How true

Yann — The spammer, sadly, is known to this site. He's drunk on a beach in Thailand the bastard.

Vincnt — I agree. Exactly. Spot on.

Mr Out – Ah come on.the thing is well made and it's funny. The blurb however, is neither.

By: Gary Ireland

Gary Ireland — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:00:15 +0000

Clever? I suppose I shall have to grant it that but “art”? I am reminded of what’s his name’s half shark or the pile of brick’s a few years ago. Better yet the unmade bed! I am an artist myself and did not know.

By: unstranger

unstranger — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:15:09 +0000

Pretentious.

How about – zip, nada, nothing.