Gerard Byrne
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Gerard Byrne's work exploits the ambiguities inherent in historicising the legacy of cultural forms from theatre, to photography, or to magazines all of which have traditionally been accorded the role of representing society to itself.
The work is primarily lens based, in film, video, and photography. The photographic projects are generally characterised as historical site related projects made over several years. The film / video projects involve reconstructing particular historically charged conversations originally published in popular magazines from the 1960¹s -1980¹s, with the intention of testing the cultural present of the gallery space against the present evoked in a magazine article from the recent past.
Finally, developing out of his conceptual interest in acting and theatre as cultural forms, Byrne has worked on a number of projects with actors and sets in gallery spaces which test the nominal historical distinctions between sculpture and set design, acting and non-acting, and spectacle and spectator.
Gerard Byrne lives and works in Dublin.
www.gerardbyrne.com
Artist Contact
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Artist News
2nd Torino Triennale
6 November 2008 – 18 January 2009
Torino Triennale
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
(Group show)
5 September –9 November 2008
Gwangju Biennale
Biennale of Sydney
18 June – 07 September 2008
Biennale of Sydney
Gerard Byrne "Related Works" in x-rummet
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
5 April - 15 August 2008
Statens Museum for Kunst
Not quite how I remember it
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
(Group show)
30 May - 10 August 2008
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
Artist Press
The World's a StageFrieze magazine: Issue 103 November-December 2006
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"Opening: Gerard Byrne."
By T.J. Demos. Artforum (Summer 2007), pp. 478-480.
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Artist Exhibitions
Gerard Byrne March 23 - May 4, 2007View Exhibition
'I really should…' July 13 - August 27, 2005
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Artist Images
In the News, 2007 Fibre print 127 x 152.5 cm
A country road, a tree, evening: Cruagh, on the road between Kilakee and Tibradden, Dublin Mountains, 2006 C-Print 88 x 100 cm
A Country Road, A Tree, Evening: The road to Glencullen between the Glendoo and the Tibradden Mountains, Dublin Mountains, 2007 C-Print 88 x 110 cm
A country road, a tree, evening: A towards Kinarla Lough, Drumskew, outside Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, 2007 C-Print 88 x 110 cm
*ZAN -T185 r.1: (Interview) v.1, no. 4 - v.2, no. 6, 19 (1969 -Feb. 1972); (Andy Warhol's (Interview) v.2, no. 21 - v.3, no. 9, 2007 Single channel dvd projection Dimensions variable
*ZAN -T185 r.1: (Interview) v.1, no. 4 - v.2, no. 6, 19 (1969 -Feb. 1972); (Andy Warhol's (Interview) v.2, no. 21 - v.3, no. 9, 2007 Single channel dvd projection Dimensions variable
1984 and Beyond, 2005 3 single channel dvd on lcd screen, set of 20 black and white photographs
1984 and Beyond, 2005 3 single channel dvd on lcd screen, set of 20 black and white photographs
Homme à Femmes (Michel Debraine), 2004 Single channel video, free-standing projection screen, DVD
Homme à Femmes (Michel Debraine), 2004 Single channel video, free-standing projection screen, DVD
In Repertory, 2004 Installation view Lenbachhaus, Munich 2006
New Sexual Lifestyles, 2003 Three single channel video shown on monitors, five large colour photographs, two monochrome photographs, unicol stands. Installation view Short History of performance IV, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 1st - 14th April 2006
New Sexual Lifestyles, 2003 Three single channel video shown on monitors, five large colour photographs, two monochrome photographs, unicol stands.
Why it's time for Imperial, again, 1998 Single channel video installation, monitor, headphones, platform, chairs, five photographs Installation view 'I Really Should', Lisson Gallery, 13th July - 27th August 2005
Why it's time for Imperial, again, 1998 Single channel video installation, monitor, headphones, platform, chairs, five photographs Photographs 63.2 x 53 cm