An exhibition of 10 abstract typographic compositions

Open:
14, 15, 16, 17, May 2009 (11.00 - 19.00)

Preview:
14 May 2009 (18.00 - 20.00)

An exercise in formal composition, Adventures in blippo is the result of designer Brian Heffernan’s long-standing fascination with the modernist-derived typeface Blippo Black.

Consisting of 10 one-colour A1 screen prints, each an edition of just ive, the series of works foregrounds, through its use of type as formal elements for the creation of nonlinguistic visual schemes, the signiicance of letterforms beyond their role as carriers of discursive meaning.

Created in 1969 by Robert Trogman and Joe Taylor, Blippo Black revisits Herbert Bayer’s 1925 ultra-functional Bauhaus-commissioned typeface Universal, giving the resolutely geometric forms a slightly softer, less rational, more (albeit subtly) adorned appearance in their redrawing.

It is this tension – between form for communicative function and the notion of a typeface’s pleasurable consumption as a collection of decorative forms in their own right – that Brian has taken as his point of departure in creating Adventures in blippo.

Dislocated from their primary function as linguistic signifiers, certain letters are taken by Brian from the Blippo Black alphabet and, through a limited number of artistic devices, elaborated into intriguing, minimalist visual compositions.

The titles of each of the works in the series (for example, ‘CX25’) serve, however, to reinscribe in the viewer’s mind the original purpose of the individual shapes found within the compositions, thereby acknowledging, and taking pleasure in, their multiple meaning.

A further tension is identiiable in Brian’s work, in terms of his process. Intention is called into question, for while the compositions are on the one hand the result of four years of almost obsessive consideration and iterative reworking, the designer also states that he has ‘allowed the letterforms to dictate their own compositions, in an attempt to express the true nature of the typeface’.

Biographical note

Brian Heffernan is a Dublin-based graphic designer, who has worked in the industry for ten years. Originally from Cork, Brian graduated from Athlone Institute of Technology with a National Diploma in Design in 2000, before going on to complete a BDes in Interactive Media at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology. He is currently designer at Red Dog Design Consultants.

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Anne Marie Hayes & Colm Desmond

Colm Desmond is presently investigating the legacy of formalist and material practices within
modernity, at the intersection of post-minimal and object-based approaches. A collaged painting-
aesthetic, presented in 2D and 3D formats, emphasises both the formal and tactile qualities of naturally
degraded or synthetically processed materials. Post their original use, these materials are collected,
rearranged and reflected back as an historical legacy of studio practice. The narratives between the
different elements drive the work and its framing and display. Historical quotation of formal elements
is deflected in a mise-en-abyme of the component parts.

Anne Marie Hayes works in video exploring our relationship with the world using performative interventions to explore ideas ranging from agoraphobia to claustrophobic incarceration experienced either through psychological or physical restrictions. Sometimes our existence is not harmonious and self-alienation in the form of agoraphobia or forced alienation in the form of containment by society
can disrupt our place in the world.

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Interim Dialogues is made up of a number of art works and research materials by a group of Irish artists .These elements combined to form a picture of the variety of formative stages involved in a creative learning process

Interim Dialogueshosted a series of talk with Declan Long Ciara Moore and Padraig E Moore, who individually spoke about pieces of literature that they currently find interesting or significant.

Interim Dialogues also hosted two lunchtime film screenings. The films were related to some of the topics raised in the artists´ works and to the subject of exploration in the creative process.

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Examples of the artist’s work can be found at:
interim.exhibition@gmail.com

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Maurice Caplice show

“My Practice strives to highlight the extent of tribalness in our social structure. The work has become a subtle hint at division caused by human tribalness. The automatons wear their sashes proclaiming their tribe by colour. They go about their business, falling, fighting, staring, sleeping, sashed up in their divided landscapes.

The smaller gangs who sit and knock the others, the larger clan and creed to which you belong. We all wear our sashes, our mark, and our colour proclaiming whom and to which we belong.

Tribalness without which we would not function, Tribalness without which there would be no division.”

“In an overpowering disposable society, the human becomes disposable, Overcrowding in many countries lead to a lesser value of life. In this country the sense of Irish ness becomes more important as the country rightly becomes more multicultural. Tribalism has reared its ugly head and taken us to its comforting bosom. Let’s see what happens next.

The work has never meant to be a sermon from a pulpit, just an impartial view on societies and my own strange behaviour. With the idea of Tribalness being both sides of the human coins condition, the good and the bad. We must address the wrong and revere the right.”

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