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The artists studio is an exhibition at the Hugh Lane Gallery which investigates the role of the studio in the making and production of art.
It’s inspired by the studio of Irish painter Francis Bacon which is housed at the gallery. The show features work by Andy Warhol, John Baldessari, Thomas Demand, Urs Fischer, Martin Kippenberger, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Dieter Roth and Wolfgang Tillmans.

A symposium on the role of the studio in creative production, will take place on February 8 and 9, 2007.
Speakers include internationally active artists, curators and critics such as: Sara Arrhenius, Iwona Blazwick, Daniel Buren, Thomas Demand.

Full details are available at:
http://www.hughlane.ie/exhibitions/exhibc.asp

And Cool Hunting have a good post on the exhibition here:
http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2006/11/dublin_city_gal.php

From the Hugh Lane site:

The concept of the studio has long captivated audiences with its associations of unbridled creativity, freedom from convention, bohemian lifestyle and struggle for success. THE STUDIO wants to offer an indepth examination of the historic and contemporary role and function of the studio for artists. What does the studio mean for artists today whose creative production is based on ideas and process and for whom the notion of the permanency of the artwork is often redundant? Addressing this subject provides fascinating insights into art in the contemporary environment and the role and activities of the artist within those structures, social, economic and political, which inform society locally and globally.

LECTURES AND SCREENINGS
Sunday 3 December 2006 3pm
Lecture: The Studio as Spectrum
Christina Kennedy, Head of Exhibitions and co-curator of THE STUDIO, will give a lecture and walk-through of the exhibition.

Sunday 7 January 2007 3pm
Film screening: Kippenberger-Der Film
Jörg Kobel, Germany 2005, 75’
This documentary features film footage and rare interviews with German artist Martin Kippenberger and looks at his connections with the Berlin art and punk scenes of the 1970s and 80s.

Sunday 28 January 2007 3pm
Artist’s Talk: Andrew Grassie
London based painter Andrew Grassie, who is currently using the gallery as a studio, will discuss his work in the context of the exhibition.

Sunday 4 February 2007 3pm
Lecture: Sean Shanahan in conversation with Aidan Dunne.
Artist Sean Shanahan will discuss his studio in relation to the exhibition with the Irish Times’ art critic Aidan Dunne.

Sunday 11 February 2007 3pm
Film Screening: Buren and the Guggenheim
Stan Neuman, France 2005, 54‘
Made during the installation of Daniel Buren’s 2005 exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, this film provides a background to Buren’s work and longstanding history with the museum. Produced by Les Poissons Volants

Sunday 25 February 2007 3pm
Lecture: “What’s all the fuss about? Artists just have studios, don’t they?�
Mick Wilson, Head of Research Postgraduate Studies at the National College of Art and Design, will discuss the artist’s studio in context with the exhibition.

The Studio
1 December 2006–25 February 2006
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
Charlemont House
Parnell Square North, Dublin 1
Ireland
Tel. +1 +353 1 222 5550