Photo: Deirdre Power
EVA – Exhibition of Visual+Art – will next take place in Limerick from April 2018 on, this international biennial of visual art in all its media. Since established in Limerick in 1977, EVA has issued an open call to artists worldwide to submit their works, each for the selection of the curator and his panel.
Submission is online and for the creation of new works, there is finance available. See www.eva.ie for more; the deadline is Tuesday January 31, 2017.
Curator Inti Guerrero is leading this 38th EVA through its long incubation until launch day at Limerick City Gallery of Art some 18 months away. His declared theme is ‘the current state’ and, we’re told:
“This could be a reflection on the current state of an artist’s work, the current state of government, the current state of one’s family, the current state of art history, the current state of ideology, the current state of a person’s illness, the current state of religion, or a reflection on how the state of today is a reminder of the state of yesterday.”
From April 14 of 2018 into July, the ultimate vision is a “kaleidoscopic ecology of intertwining group shows which will combine various narratives across the city”.
Back to the man in charge.
“Inti Guerrero is from Columbia, now living in Hong Kong and has worked with independent art spaces there,” explains EVA communications manager, Emma Dwyer. “He has worked with the Tate in London [and many others] and specialises in South American art”.
EVA’s open call is “wide open in the materials that artists propose to use. They can submit an existing art work and that will suffice on its own, or work with EVA International on a commission.
“We are open to many, depending on what the proposal submitted its, if successful in selection. We pay for the production of it ourselves – we do not expect the artist to do that”.
Funds are raised from this world wide biennial’s partnerships and sponsors, as yet not finalised.
