Gerard Byrne

2011

Boek; 224 p ill

Met biografie

Tent. Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 26-07-2011, 31-10-2011 ; Lissabon, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, 21-09-2012, 06-01-2013. - Monografie documenteert de projecten en installaties van de Ierse kunstenaar Gerard Byrne (Dublin 1969). - Bevat tevens zaaloverzichten van projecten in het Van Abbemuseum waarin hij reflecteert op de iconen van het Minimalisme. - Coll. VAM: Stella, Frank, Tuxedo Junction, 1960, ill. ; Effingham I, 1967, ill. ; Andre, Carl, Twenty-Fifth Steel Cardinal, 1974, ill. ; Judd, Donald, Untitled, 1969, ill. ; Morris, Robert, 9 H-shapes, 1968, ill. - Irish artist Gerard Byrne 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 the1960s-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

Located in: BYRNE, GERARD

ISBN: 978-1-907020-61-2

VUBIS: 2:89090