The Irish Museum of Modern Art Archives

By examining the painting Pleasure of Italy (1972) Joanna Shepard discovered words and symbols underneath the painting. Words and markings such as “Jean-Marc” which may referencing on Derek Jarman’s ex-partner Jean-Marc Prouveur then “Trick or Treat”, “Me and My Shadow” and other.

“Examining the painting for this show, a chance back-lighting revealed dozens of inscriptions beneath the paint, deliberately and almost completely painted out, some featuring magical symbols substituted for individual letters,” wrote Joanna Shepard.

These discoveries underneath the artist’s painting is due to be published in a series of essays by Thames & Hudson on march 2020 and until 23rd February it is still possible to have a look at this painting in Dublin on show for the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective on the artist, titled Protest!.

Derek Jarman: Protest!
Nov 2019 – Feb 2020
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Dublin 8, D08 FW31, Ireland

Spring/Summer 2020
Manchester Art Gallery
Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3JL

After the settlement of the legal dispute between the art dealer Richard Salmon and Amanda Wilkinson Gallery over Derek Jarman’s more than 80 works, the big retrospective can now be shown at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin which opens in November 2019 and is curated by Seán Kissane – except his Black Paintings that are already exhibited in Amanda Wilkinson Gallery. Afterwards this exhibition will be taking place in 2020 in Manchester Art Gallery and is curated by Jon Savage. This is a big opportunity as the curator at IMMA said, because “We don’t know Derek Jarman the painter, but that was his primary practice”.

Derek Jarman: Protest!
Nov 2019 – Feb 2020
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Dublin 8, D08 FW31, Ireland

Spring/summer 2020:
Manchester Art Gallery
Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3JL

Derek Jarman

A book about artist, filmmaker, painter and author Derek Jarman

Tag: The Irish Museum of Modern Art

Secret Scrawls under Pleasures of Italy (1972)

Derek Jarman retrospectives at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin and the Manchester Art Gallery

MENU

EXTRACTS