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.

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Gerard Byrne Press

Guardian.co.uk, 19th June 2010
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Irish Times, 14th May 2010
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Guardian.co.uk, 5th May 2010
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Frieze Magazine, November 2006
The World's a Stage, Frieze magazine: Issue 103 November-December 2006
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ArtForum, Summer 2007
"Opening: Gerard Byrne." By T.J. Demos. Artforum (Summer 2007), pp. 478-480.
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Gerard Byrne Exhibitions

Lisson Presents 2  March 4 - 28, 2009
Gerard Byrne  February 11 - March 21, 2009
Gerard Byrne  March 23 - May 4, 2007

Gerard Byrne Public Exhibitions

PAST

Gerard Byrne
The 54th Venice Biennale, Venice
4 June - 27 November 2011
Venice Biennale

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Performa 11, New York
1 November - 21 November 2011
Performa

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Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA, Dublin
27 July - 31 October 2011
IMMA

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MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
14 January — 3 April 2011
The MK Gallery

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A thing is a hole in a thing is not
The Renaissance Society, Chicago
8 January — 27 February 2011
The Renaissance Society

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Another Point of View
La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec
18 September — 18 November 2010
La Galerie

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Lismore Castle
24 April - 30 September 2010
Lismore Castle

The Science of Imagination
Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
29 April 2010 - 27 June 2010
Ludwig Museum

The 4th Auckland Triennial - Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon
Auckland Triennial, Auckland
12 March 2010 - 20 June 2010
Auckland Triennial

Gerard Byrne Catalogues and Editions

Gerard Byrne, The Present Tense Through the Ages: On the Recent Work of Gerard Byrne

Gerard Byrne Images

<i>Case Study: Loch Ness (Some possibilities and problems)</i>, 2001–2008 Installation view, Turin Triennale, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Case Study: Loch Ness (Some possibilities and problems), 2001–2008 Installation view, Turin Triennale, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
<i>In the News, </i>2007 Fibre print 127 x 152.5 cm
In the News, 2007 Fibre print 127 x 152.5 cm
<i>A country road, a tree, evening: Cruagh, on the road between Kilakee and Tibradden, Dublin Mountains,</i> 2006 C-Print 88 x 100 cm
A country road, a tree, evening: Cruagh, on the road between Kilakee and Tibradden, Dublin Mountains, 2006 C-Print 88 x 100 cm
<i>A Country Road, A Tree, Evening: The road to Glencullen between the Glendoo and the Tibradden Mountains, Dublin Mountains</i>, 2007 C-Print 88 x 110 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
<i>A country road, a tree, evening: A towards Kinarla Lough, Drumskew, outside Enniskillen, County Fermanagh</i>, 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
<i>*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, </i>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
<i>*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, </i>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
<i>1984 and Beyond, </i>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
<i>1984 and Beyond, </i>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
<i>Homme à Femmes (Michel Debraine), </i>2004 Single channel video, free-standing projection screen, DVD
Homme à Femmes (Michel Debraine), 2004 Single channel video, free-standing projection screen, DVD
<i>Homme à Femmes (Michel Debraine), </i>2004 Single channel video, free-standing projection screen, DVD
Homme à Femmes (Michel Debraine), 2004 Single channel video, free-standing projection screen, DVD
<i>In Repertory, </i>2004 Installation view Lenbachhaus, Munich 2006
In Repertory, 2004 Installation view Lenbachhaus, Munich 2006
<i>New Sexual Lifestyles, </i>2003 Three single channel video shown on monitors, five large colour photographs, two monochrome photographs, unicol stands. Installation view <i>Short History of performance IV,</i> 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. Installation view Short History of performance IV, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 1st - 14th April 2006
<i>New Sexual Lifestyles, </i>2003 Three single channel video shown on monitors, five large colour photographs, two monochrome photographs, unicol stands.
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 Installation view 'I Really Should', Lisson Gallery, 13th July - 27th August 2005
<i>Why it's time for Imperial, again, </i>1998 Single channel video installation, monitor, headphones, platform, chairs, five photographs Photographs 63.2 x 53 cm
Why it's time for Imperial, again, 1998 Single channel video installation, monitor, headphones, platform, chairs, five photographs Photographs 63.2 x 53 cm
Case Study: Loch Ness (Some possibilities and problems), 2001–2008 Exhibition view, Momentum 12, ICA Boston, 2008
Case Study: Loch Ness (Some possibilities and problems), 2001–2008 Exhibition view, Momentum 12, ICA Boston, 2008
Case Study: Loch Ness (Some possibilities and problems), 2001–2008 Exhibition view, Momentum 12, ICA Boston, 2008
Case Study: Loch Ness (Some possibilities and problems), 2001–2008 Exhibition view, Momentum 12, ICA Boston, 2008
Case Study: Loch Ness (Some possibilities and problems), 2001–2008 Exhibition view, Momentum 12, ICA Boston, 2008
Case Study: Loch Ness (Some possibilities and problems), 2001–2008 Exhibition view, Momentum 12, ICA Boston, 2008

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