Irish Museum of Modern Art, Kilmainham, Dublin Tues- Sat 10am-5.30pm (Wed 10.30am-5.30pm), Sun noon-5.30pm Until Jun 12 01-6129900 modernart.ie

Imma director Enrique Juncosa, a longtime admirer of the work of Irish-American artist Philip Taaffe, has curated this survey show of his work. Juncosa compares Taaffe to previous Imma exhibitors Terry Winters and Juan Uslé for his contribution to a revival of abstract painting from the 1990s onwards.

However, Taaffe is not an austere abstract painter like Mondrian, intent on reducing the world to a few right angles and flat primary colours. There was a touch of that to his early work, but not since the early 1990s. Taaffe has travelled widely and his delight in the variety, colour, pattern and generosity of the world has found its way into his paintings, which often evoke the combined control and freedom of fabric prints. There are myriad references to the world in his pictures which, he argues, are not depictions of an outside reality, but “another reality”. A painting is itself “a place, an imaginary construction to inhabit with one’s sensory being”.

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Rosemarie Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin Until Apr 25