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10:00 - 17:00, Friday 7 October - Sunday 15 April
This exhibition showcases Post-War International Art and recent acquisitions. The Post-War period gave rise to many diverse and radical artistic movements; unifying themes can however, be found in abstraction and the experimental use of new media.
The title of this exhibition is taken from a recent acquisition Silent Echoes, Ohara (2008), a sound sculpture by American artist Bill Fontana made by recording the sounds echoing within a Japanese temple bell when it is ‘silent’.
The Ulster Museum holds an important collection of Post-War international art including work by Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon and Joseph Beuys. This exhibition draws together many of these works and attempts to illustrate how recent acquisitions by Bill Fontana, Paul Seawright and Siobhán Hapaska resonate with themes and ideas found in the art of the Post-War period.
This exhibition is on show in Art Gallery 2.
Image above: © Bill Fontana, Silent Echoes: Ohara, 2008
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