Karl Grimes - Dignified Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Silk
Friday 5 October 2007

‘Dignified Kings Play Chess on File Green Silk’ is a full-colour limited edition artist's monograph on new work by artist Karl Grimes, based on Grimes’s year-long term as artist-in-residence at the Natural History Museum, Dublin.

The museum as a repository of knowledge, historical regimes of representation and ways of seeing are here addressed as Grimes applies his practice to the archives and hidden narratives of the Museum. In photographs, drawings, lightboxes, text and soundscapes, Grimes’s re-interpretation of the Natural History Museum’s collections and Victorian museum practice in Ireland becomes a re-collection, a poetic transformation activating memory and re-awakening the ‘Dead Zoo’.

Edited by Karl Grimes with texts by Martin Kemp, Nigel Monaghan, David Norris and Stephanie McBride. Hardcover, 48pp. Available from bookshops at the Gallery of Photography, Dublin, and the National Museum of Ireland. ISBN 978-0-9552388-3-3. Supported by the Arts Council, National Museum of Ireland, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, and the Morris Foundation. For further Information: www.karlgrimes.net

Karl will give a talk on the work on Thursday October 11 at 1.15pm in the Gallery of Photography. Admission is free.

National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin: September 20 to November 4, 2007 and, Gallery of Photography, Temple Bar, Dublin: September 27 to November 4, 2007

Karl Grimes B.Soc.Sc, DipTP, MFA