Gender and art

"IMMA presents a major retrospective of the work of Eileen Gray, one of the most celebrated and influential designers and architects of the 20th-century. Designed and produced by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with IMMA, this exhibition is a tribute to Gray’s career as a leading member of the modern design movement. The exhibition at IMMA celebrates Gray’s Irish roots and presents a number of previously unseen works that offer new insights into Gray’s extraordinary career."

Eileen Gray: Architect Designer Painter

12 October 2013 – 19 January 2014

IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

PARIS — "Eileen Gray designed furniture that didn’t so much inhabit as space as touch lightly on it. With discreet forms and minimalist waves that contrasted their industrial materials to the waning of Art Nouveau, the Irish designer quietly influenced the Modernism that would guide architecture and design beyond the 1920s and 30s..."

The retrospective on Eileen Gray is at the Centre Georges Pompidou (19 Rue Beaubourg, 75004, Paris) through May 20, 2013.