Frankfurt Shows Ireland's Wild Garden: 20 Artists at Crespo Open Space

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One brushstroke per hour, 24 hours straight, in the middle of an Irish garden – what sounds like an art performance is part of an exhibition currently on view in Frankfurt. The Crespo Foundation is showing works at Crespo Open Space by resident artists who lived and worked at Glenkeen Garden. Twenty artists are involved.

For art lovers, this means: anyone who wants to see how an overgrown garden transforms the work of 20 artists gets a compact cross-section at Crespo Open Space – and, with the British artist who painted hourly for 24 hours, also a visual diary of light, weather, and garden mood.

What makes Glenkeen Garden a place to work

The garden is in Ireland – far from the polished, picture-perfect gallery. Anyone completing a residency there doesn't work in a quiet back room, but right in the thick of it. Exactly how nature and weather are reflected in the works that have now made their way to Frankfurt is shown by the Crespo exhibition.

24 hours, 24 watercolors – the hourly inventory

A British artist spent 24 hours capturing in watercolor, hour by hour, what she saw at that moment. Over the course of the day, a visual diary of light, weather, and garden mood emerges – captured in small, freshly painted pictures that are part of the Frankfurt exhibition.

What Frankfurt art fans can see now at Crespo Open Space

With this show, the Crespo Foundation brings a slice of residency reality from Ireland to Frankfurt – from a wild garden landscape straight into the Rhine-Main region. How long the exhibition runs and under what conditions it can be seen: the source at hand provides no information.