Brian Maguire: La Grande Illusion

Book Your Place

Booking Links Below

Artists

Brian Maguire, artist

Gallery Opening Hours

Exhibition is open during gallery opening hours.
Opening Hours

• Mon Closed
• Tues to Wed 9:45 am – 6:00 pm
• Thurs 9:45 am – 8:30 pm
• Fri 9:45 am – 5:00 pm
• Sat 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
• Sun 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Please see website for dates and times for events in our associated engagement programme.

Full Event Details

Brian Maguire: La Grande Illusion

Highlights of our public programmes

Film Screenings, Talks, Tours, Art Appreciation series and more

Art Appreciation Course

More Power to you! Art and Activism from Sarah Purser to Brian Maguire

Dates: Thursdays 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 October, 7, 14, 21 November 2024, 14:30-16:30pm.

This eight week course programmed by HLG is presented in collaboration with UCD Life long Learning programme. Enrol via:  UCD Lifelong Learning programme 01 7167123 or all@ucd.ie   https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/art-appreciation-course-ucd-lifelong-learning/

Art Appreciation Course

Avenues into Modern and Contemporary Art

5 October 2024- 26 April 2025

Taking place on Saturday mornings, these illustrated lectures programmed by HLG and presented in collaboration with the Peoples College offer the opportunity for exploring engaging and wide-ranging themes from art history to contemporary visual art practice, to wider societal concerns explored by artists nationally and internationally including Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion. Enrol via info@peoplescollege.ie  https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/avenues-into-modern-and-contemporary-art-2024-25

Hugh Lane Culture Club

Tuesday 15 October, 2.30pm

Our Culture Clubs are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment. Dr Anne Cormican will lead a walkthrough of the exhibition Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion followed by tea /coffee and further discussion. Booking details https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/culture-club-15-oct/

Coffee Conversation

Wednesday 16 October 2024, 11am

Our Coffee Conversations are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment. Contemporary Art Practice: Artist Claire Halpin will discuss her work which explores themes and concepts around contested territories and histories through painting, video and installation. Fee: €5, incl tea/coffee https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/claire-halpin/

Accessibility

Thursday 17 October, 11am
Tour for People who are Hard of Hearing with a focus discussion of artworks in our new exhibition Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion. This tour will focus on the artworks in Galleries 1 The Invisible Becomes Visible and Gallery 2 Remains. Free, book on Eventbrite. https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/hard-of-hearing-17-oct/

Films Screening
‘The ruined land: the land in ruins’, a programme of films curated by film curator Alice Butler in parallel to the Brian Maguire exhibition La Grande Illusion.

Friday 18 October 2024, 1pm 
La Grande Illusion (1hr 53 minutes), 1937; Directed by Jean Renoir.
La Grande Illusion takes place in a German fortress where two French aviators – aristocratic Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay) and working-class Breton lieutenant Maréchal (Jean Gabin) – are held captive by monocled Captain von Rauffenstein (played by the silent film director Erich von Stroheim). Introduced and followed by Q+A moderated by Film Curator Alice Butler. Free, book on Eventbrite or come on the day subject to availability. https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/film-la-grande-illusion/

Parent and Baby Tours
Thursday 31 October, 28 November 2024 and 27 March, 11am
New parents are invited to join us on this guided tour of Brian Maguire’s exhibition La Grande Illusion, with their babies up to the age of 1 year.  Followed by tea/coffee and further conversation. Fee: €5, booking essential via Eventbrite.ie. 

Film Screening

Saturday 9 November, 2,30pm
Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory directed by Mohanad Yaqubi. (62 min, Color & B&W, digital, Arabic, English, French, and Italian with English subtitles; Palestine, France, Qatar, Lebanon, 2016. This screening is programmed and presented by artist and filmmaker Helena Gouveia Monteiro, who will moderate a post-screening conversation. Free, booking on Eventbrite or come on the day subject to availability. https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/film-screening-off-framenov24

Film Screening

‘The ruined land: the land in ruins’, a programme of films curated by film curator Alice Butler in parallel to the Brian Maguire exhibition ‘La Grande Illusion’.

Friday 22 November 2024, 1pm
Foragers (64 mins), 2022; by Jumana Manna
‘Foragers’ depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, it moves between fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. With an introduction and post-screening Q+A with Film Curator Alice Butler. Free, book on Eventbrite or come on the day subject to availability. https://hughlane.ie/explore-learn/?cat=talks-art-courses

Accessibility

Tour for People who are Hard of Hearing  

Thursday 21 November 2024, 11am

Join us for an in focus discussion of artworks in our new exhibition Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion. This tour led by Yseult O’Driscoll will focus on the artworks in  Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion  in Gallery 3 War Changes Its Address and Gallery 4 The Clock Winds Down https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/hard-of-hearing-21-nov/ 

Accessibility

ISL Interpreted Tour: Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion 

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 2.30pm

Join us for an introductory guided tour of our current exhibition Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion accompanied by an Irish Sign Language (ISL) interpreter. Free

Coffee Conversation

Wednesday 13 November, 11am

Our Coffee Conversations are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment.

The Clear Cut Amazon by Brian Maguire. €5. Incl. tea/coffee

Coffee Conversation

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 11am

Our Coffee Conversations are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment.

Art and Ecology with artist Gareth Kennedy

This illustrated talk by artist Gareth Kennedy will discuss the intersections of contemporary art with ecology. Fee: €5, incl tea/coffee https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/gareth-kennedy

Coffee Conversation

Wednesday 4 December 2024, 11am

Our Coffee Conversations are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment. Join us for an illustrated talk about Salmagundi with filmmaker Jijo Sebastian. Awarded the Hugh Lane Gallery-Create commission 2022-24 for a socially engaged artist, learn more about the collaborative, transcultural filmmaking and community building project developed by the artist. €5 fee including tea/coffee, no advance booking required but numbers may be limited. https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/coffee-conversation-salmagundi-jijo-sebastian/

Evening Lecture

Thursday 5 December, 6.30pm
Raul Araujo is a researcher, psychoanalyst and consultant on children and adolescents’ rights. Raul has worked on projects with artist Brian Maguire over a timespan of 20 years and in this talk he will explore this work, as well as his own work on the ground in his native Brazil. Free, places can be booked via Eventbrite.

Coffee Conversation

Wednesday 8 January, 11am

Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up by Brian Maguire. Fee: €5, incl. tea/coffee

Film Screening

‘The ruined land: the land in ruins’, a programme of films curated by film curator Alice Butler in parallel to the Brian Maguire exhibition ‘La Grande Illusion’.

Friday 10 January 2025, 1pm
Shouting at the Ground (21 mins), 2017; by Graeme Arnfield
In a peat bog in North West England a Spanish woman was murdered, her body buried and subsumed into the treacherously dense ecological matter. A matter which labours have extracted for centuries, selling this fertile material as fuel worldwide; a material which upon burning releases timeless carbon deposits into our increasingly precarious and damaged ecosphere. After laying dormant under the rich dark peat for an unknown amount of time a body returned to the surface but its identity had become dislocated; it has become entwined with the history of its material host.  https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/shouting-film-10jan25

Poetry Course: Invisible Becomes Visible

11, 18  and 25 January 2025, 1.45-4.15pm

Led by poet Grace Wilentz, three part series of workshops engaging with “La Grande Illusion”, a major exhibition of the work of Brian Maguire. In each workshop, participants will spend time with the exhibition, before being guided to write original poems in response to it.  Brian Maguire is an artist whose practice has been defined by sustained engagement with social justice and human rights. In this workshop, we will focus on how Maguire’s work in “La Grande Illusion” encounters climate justice, migration and making ‘the invisible become visible’. As Maguire says, art has the power to make ‘the invisible become visible’. We’ll explore what this means, with a focus on how your own creative practice might relate to serving the overlooked, omitted and forgotten. While no prior experience is necessary, all will be expected to participate actively in discussions and take part in writing exercises. In return, you can expect to come away with new poems, and discover fresh approaches to engaging with urgent social justice concerns in your own creative practice. Fee: €100, advance booking via Eventbrite https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/la-grande-illusion/

Accessibility

Live Online Audio Description for People with a Visual Impairment

Wednesday 15 January 2025, Noon

Our live online audio description programme for people with a visual impairment will explore the exhibition Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion with Fala Buggy.

How to Book: Free, advance booking via Eventbrite or by telephone on 01 2225560. https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/online-audio-description-15-jan/

Coffee Conversation

Wednesday 22 January, 11am

Our Coffee Conversations are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment.

Bentiu Camp South Sudan 1, 2018. Fee: €5, incl tea/coffee.

Film Screening

‘The ruined land: the land in ruins’, a programme of films curated by film curator Alice Butler in parallel to the Brian Maguire exhibition ‘La Grande Illusion’.

Friday 14 February 2025, 1pm
History of the Present (46 mins), 2023; by Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon
An experimental feminist opera-film about class and conflict, ‘History of the Present’ has been made collaboratively by Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon, featuring new compositions by Annea Lockwood, libretto by Maria Fusco and improvisational vocal work by Héloïse Werner. This intersectional, intergenerational feminist work forefronts working-class women’s voices to ask: who has the right to speak, and in what way? With an introduction and post-screening Q+A with Film Curator Alice Butler, Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon; joining online. Free, book on Eventbrite or come on the day subject to availability.  https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/historypresent-film-14feb25

Accessibility

Tour for People who are Hard of Hearing

Thursday 23 January, 11am

Join us for an in focus discussion of artworks  in  Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion: A focus on the artworks in Galleries 4 + 5 Blood Rising  with Tony Suttle. Free.

Coffee Conversation

Wednesday 29 January, 11am

Our Coffee Conversations are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment.

Arizona 3 by Brian Maguire. Fee: €5, incl. tea/coffee

Seminar

Brian Maguire: La Grande Illusion Seminar
Friday 21 March, 10.30am – 4.30pm
This day long seminar will explore themes arising from Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion with guest contributors including Dr Maria Maclennan, ‘forensic jeweller’,  Suha Nabhan, co-founder and strategic director of Migration Jam; and more. Free, booking on Eventbrite and further details will be available here https://hughlane.ie/explore-learn/

Free Sunday Public Tours

Our free Public Tours led by our expert guides take place every Sunday at 2.15pm, and explore our collection and temporary exhibitions. Free, no booking required.

Guided tours can also be booked here https://hughlane.ie/book-a-tour/

Community

As well as our public programmes we are connecting with audiences through artist-led community engagement and schools programmes to explore themes arising from Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion.

Our Explore & Learn programmes are continually being added to and further details can be found here https://hughlane.ie/explore-learn/ and here https://hughlane.ie/whats-on/

Artist Biography

Brian Maguire lives and works in Dublin and Paris. Brian Maguire’s painting practice is driven by the struggle against inequality and violence, and the pursuit of justice. His process is foremost an act of solidarity, rehumanising his subjects and recentring the narratives of the disenfranchised. Social engagement plays a central role, leading him to work closely and interactively with refugees, survivors of warzones, incarcerated peoples, and local newsrooms in locations including Sudan, Syria, São Paulo and Ciudad Juárez. Recent solo exhibitions include Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship, Converge 45, Portland (2023); law of the land, Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen, Norway (2023); The Clock Winds Down, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2023); In The Light Of Conscience, Missoula Art Museum, Montana (2022); North and South of the Border, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (2022); Remains, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland (2021); An Anatomy of Politics, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris (2021).

Organisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):

Venue Information: