A mythic literary character has set up residence in St Mullins, none other than The Mad Sweeney, and has taken the form of a winged wooden statue overlooking the Barrow.
Jonas is the subject of two revelatory exhibitions now on view in New York along with the MoMA retrospective (through July 6), the Drawing Center is presenting a survey of works on paper, “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral,” through June 2. When I try to get an overview of Jonas’s work, I often consider the title of a work of hers from 1973: Glass Puzzle. I saw a version of this piece in her 2018 retrospective at London’s Tate Modern Glass Puzzle II, which is dated 1974/2000 and incorporates the original black-and-white video projected onto a paper screen, color footage from 1974 displayed on a small monitor, and a child’s desk that replicates one seen in the 1973 video, with some objects, props, inside.
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