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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, 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.

Book details

• Full title: Gerard Byrne: Images or Shadows
• Author: Gerard Byrne, Pablo Lafuente, Ute Meta Bauer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781907020612
• ISBN: 1907020616
• ID: 12481997
• Publisher: Irish Museum of Modern Art
• Weight: 885 g
• Dimensions: 259 × 229 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: September 2011

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