Gerard Byrne Images or Shadows |
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| Text by:
| Juncosa, Enrique
Lütticken, Sven |
| Artist:
| Byrne, Gerard |
| Editor:
| LaFuente, Pablo
Bauer, Ute Meta |
| ISBN: | 978-1-907020-61-2 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2011 |
| Publisher: | Irish Museum of Modern Art
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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Irish artist Gerard Byrne (born 1969) works primarily in film and photography, which he presents as ambitious large-scale installations. His film and video projects reconstruct historically significant conversations derived from popular magazines from the 1960s-1980s; the effect of these works is to test the "cultural present" of the gallery space against the "defunct present" of a magazine article. Byrne's attraction to dialogue naturally inclines him towards an interest in theater,...
More DescriptionIrish artist Gerard Byrne (born 1969) works primarily in film and photography, which he presents as ambitious large-scale installations. His film and video projects reconstruct historically significant conversations derived from popular magazines from the 1960s-1980s; the effect of these works is to test the "cultural present" of the gallery space against the "defunct present" of a magazine article. Byrne's attraction to dialogue naturally inclines him towards an interest in theater, and he has worked on a number of projects with actors and sets--again in gallery spaces--that exploit distinctions between sculpture and set design, acting and non-acting, and spectacle and spectator. Byrne's work draws on a range of sources, from popular print media of the recent past to iconic modernist playwrights and thinkers such as Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett and Jean-Paul Sartre. This volume offers his first complete overview.