So I’m beginning to write this post on the bus on its way to the Glucksman gallery (http://www.glucksman.org). Its pouring rain outside and I know nothing about this this exhibit bar its name “Mixtapes” and I’m getting a free poster (I have Twitter to thank for that one). Now I’ve never properly gone to an art exhibit, well that said when I was young I think my mom took me to ones once or twice, but I used to use the exhibit pieces as climbing obstacles, which promptly ended my artistic and cultural up bringing.

So I swing upon the big glass door of the Glucksman and trek up the stairs. I meet with the dude at the desk and he tells me the sceal with it. The ‘Mixtapes’ exhibit is contemporary art which focuses on the age old relationship between music and art presenting us with a new, colourful and thought provoking angles to said relationship. Now this contemporary art is not the kind where some punter puts a chewing gum wrapper on a stand with a net over it and says it represents oppression of free speech in botts-god-knows-where! Hard to believe I’ve heard of cases like this. If art isn’t your thing, which admittedly it isn’t my thing either (bar the styling of Salvador Dali), you will still find this exhibit awesome still!

To go through the exhibit piece-by-piece and attempt to forge stereotypical stuck-up-snooty-art-critic comments doesn’t do this exhibit justice. We have to admit that words can never fully convey art and this exhibit does a pretty damn good job of proving this point. I will however say my favourite 2 pieces are the “We Built This City (Don’t You Remember?)(2010) an installation by Dennis McNulty which consists of 8 ‘big f**k off’ mirrors, structured to resemble a bass bin, one of these ‘big f**k off’ mirrors has a projection of video of 2 Dublin bands playing. I think the surrealism of this piece is what caught my attention. Second is the “Dancehall Danceoff” by Sarah Doyle, which is actually really cool and it involves YouTube, basically what this artist did was get videos of girls dancing on YouTube and watercolour painted them and created an animation of them dancing. I like it more for the concept of involving the Internet.

So really if art is your thing, if art isn’t your thing, if you are passing the Glucksman or you are, in my case anyway, avoiding Latin, check out the ‘Mixtapes’ exhibit, its free entry, but a fiver donation never went astray, plus you’ll also find out about upcoming events like gigs and exhibits.

Tag(s) art, gallery, glucks, glucksman, man, mixtapes, ucc