New Glucksman exhibition shows home is where the art is

THE interior of the Lewis Glucksman Gallery is a compelling backdrop for its visual-art programme. The exhibition ‘Folly: Art After Architecture’, which features artists’ impressions of some of the most iconic buildings in modernist architecture, maximises this setting.

The Glucksman’s director, Fiona Kearney, co-curated the exhibition with Gary Boyd, a reader in architecture in Queens University Belfast. Boyd is also co-curator of the Irish Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, in Venice, this year.

Kearney invited Jeff Carter to take part in ‘Folly’ after seeing his work in a catalogue for the Chicago exhibition, ‘Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity’. Carter uses reconfigured IKEA furniture components to build models of iconic skyscrapers.