It was a wet and miserable day that I decided to head off to see the IMMA in Dublin. The plan was to meet up with a dear friend and spend the day enjoying some "Modern Art", yes, well firstly I sprinted to the bus in the rain with a very disappointing and frankly possessed brolly which later saw the bin. Once on board I found myself a comfortable seat, which I sat down and began to 'steam', yes its always amazed me why bus drivers keep the heating at a ridiculously high temperature even in summer, if it rains. Everyone is hot from running to escape the rain only to get steamed on the bus. Incoming call, my dear friend, just informs me she is also on the way and also got drenched in the rain running to the dart. Well, step one journey is underway.
We meet in pennies, because she lost a heel running from the dart to abbey street and now needs to by new shoes. So its still raining and we jump on the Luas and head off to the IMMA. At last we get there, and the entrance looks good and the building beautiful and old and has a large courtyard in the middle. We catch a glimpse of cafe tables in one corner of the courtyard were two ladies are sitting in the rain it is a little odd but anyway we decide that maybe we will just head in and skip a dodgy museum coffee.
A little stark inside, as you would, i guess expect from a modern art museum. We continued up the stairs at reception. Now, I have been to many art museums around the world, I confess not many 'Modern' Art museums but a few, including the Guggenheim in New York which I quite enjoyed. But the oddness that met us at the top of those stairs was quite outside my artistic senses I have to say. Video images of an asian lady lying in a dank and dirty looking room in, I was confused whether it was a hospital or a back alley butchers. Anyway she had metal pins sticking out of her thigh which I heard some woman beside me explain to her young, maybe 7 year old son (yes a little odd for a play date) was to do with electronic pulses or something to that effect to heal the leg....as it seems this lady in the images was after having surgery to have her leg lengthened. Now from this point on for at least this section of the exhibition the same artist (who is very famous in Asia) concentrates on this subject.....Odd is all I can say and slightly creepy the way in which it was portrayed. The rest of the museum did little to stimulate my senses other than to cause them confusion, a little bit of disgust and a pinch of the pure strange. Some canvases looked like someone had brown paint left over and decided to smudge it all over a canvas, there were no images drawn, no texture in the paint, half the canvas was not covered and there did not seem that much paint on the brush to begin with, I was absolutely bewildered and my dear friend seemed bewildered also. I mean what is the aim of some modern art?? Don't get me wrong I enjoy some modern art, but I mean call me picky but, can't anyone scribble paint all over a canvas?
So, this free trip was less than interesting for me, I am sure there are many people into this kind of art and good for them. My brain needs some help enjoying art perhaps I need to see something in it, maybe some beautiful colours, maybe some images or something that looks like you can see shapes and let your mind wander.....I don't know I was not for me though.
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