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Guggi in Our, Óir, Ore, OUR: Conversation with the Collection

The Hunt Museum is delighted to present OUR: Conversations with the Collection, which invites visitors to experience the Hunt Collection in a new and thought-provoking way. This exhibition will explore how objects can hold and convey meaning, the exhibition reimagines the collection through dynamic dialogue with contemporary art.

OUR: Conversations with the Collection features works by Irish and international artists including Ibrahim Mahama, Qiuwen Lyu, Cecilia Bullo and Guggi, offering fresh and unexpected perspectives on heritage and material culture.

Running in tandem with, Our, Óir, Ore: Four Millennia of Silver and Gold, both exhibitions offer a rich and nuanced exploration of artistry, craftsmanship, and storytelling across time.

This exhibition explores how meaning is amplified when contemporary art enters into dialogue with historical artefacts. This exhibition offers a powerful and original lens through which to examine our material culture. Placing objects from the Hunt Museum alongside contemporary works by artists and craftspeople, it reveals striking continuities in how objects carry meaning across time and geography.

Contributors include Ghanaian artist, Ibrahim Mahama, Cecilia Bullo, Guggi, Eithne Jordan and Sonja Landweer with works on view by Henry Moore, William Scott and Giorgio Morandi, this exhibition offers a compelling encounter with the quiet power of objects to shape human stories.

Images

Guggi, Crucible III, 2023, Bronze, brown patina, edition of 9
34 x 57 x 57 cm / 13.4 x 22.4 x 22.4 in 

Guggi, Crucible III, 2023, Bronze, brown patina, edition of 9
34 x 57 x 57 cm / 13.4 x 22.4 x 22.4 in