Hughie O’Donoghue: The Red Earth

Tuesday 1 November 2016 – Sunday 29 January 2017
Afghanistan, Korengal Valley, 2007. Tim Hetherington / Magnum. Courtesy The Time Hetherington Trust | Hughie O’Donoghue: The Red Earth | Tuesday 1 November 2016 – Sunday 29 January 2017 | VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art

Reflecting on events, memories and the traces of evidence left to us from times past, O Donoghue uses his family history to connect with and understand the wars that have shaped our histories; and reflects on the personal experiences of his grandfather Hugh O Donoghue in the First World War and his father, Daniel O’Donoghue, during the Second World War. From his richly painted surfaces emerge fragments from the archive of his past, entwined with the disturbing resonance of war.

Central to the exhibition is the sculpture A Distant Thunder, a reconstruction of a trench railway vehicle used to take injured men from the battlefields of World War I. The railway irons on which it runs carried the bodies of men from the battlefields of the Somme and Ypres. This work will be activated by a performance in the galleries at 3pm every day for the duration of the season.

Associated events:

Artists Talk
Sat 12th November, 3.30pm, Free
Artists talk with Hughie O’Donoghue

Memory & Commemoration
Fri 11th November, 11.30am, Free
Coffee morning and discussion with founders of Carlow’s Military Museum

Image: Afghanistan, Korengal Valley, 2007. Tim Hetherington / Magnum. Courtesy The Time Hetherington Trust
Tuesday 1 November 2016 – Sunday 29 January 2017
VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art
Old Dublin Road, Carlow
Telephone: +353 59 917 2400
info@visualcarlow.ie
www.visualcarlow.ie
Opening hours / start times:
Tuesday 11.00 - 17:30
Wednesday 11.00 - 17:30
Thursday 11.00 - 17:30
Friday 11.00 - 17:30
Saturday 11.00 - 17:30
Sunday 14:00 - 17:00
Admission / price: Free
Remember to pay for the parking! Box office open, as well as times given, on day of theatre events from 6.30pm to show start.

 
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