Pierre Granoux

After Bloody Sunday, the artist Brian O’Doherty protested by taking the name Patrick Ireland for all his artwork until ‘such time as the British military presence is removed from Northern Ireland and all citizens are granted their civil rights’. The burial of the name Patrick Ireland 36 years after is, says the artist, a realisation that there is now peace in the North and represents a gesture of reconciliation. Forty years later, Pierre Granoux’s proposal for one exhibition in Ireland (Golden Thread Gallery, Great Patrick Street, Belfast) is a simply street sign dedicated to the memory of Patrick Ireland — “war name”” of Brian O’Doherty — and realized after the model of the Marcel Duchamp street sign in Paris.”

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