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Richard Malone's fabric sculptures to adorn EU Council during Irish presidency
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Richard Malone's fabric sculptures to adorn EU Council during Irish presidency
Irish artist Richard Malone has created a fabric sculpture installation for the EU Council buildings as Ireland assumes the rotating presidency of the union.
- Malone was commissioned to produce the installation, titled "Cuimhne agus Séadchomhartha (Memory and Monument)," for the Justus Lipsius and Europa buildings in Brussels.
- The work includes five-metre fabric sculptures and suites fitted with sofas, rugs, and vessels by contemporary Irish makers.
- Malone said the installation aims to highlight the historical erasure of queer and female artists and to question why traditional crafts are not collected.
- Malone noted that other presidencies have commissioned polished sculptures, while his work is intentionally fragile and "in conflict with all the glass and steel."
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