Gerard Byrne, Through the Eyes, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 27 July - 31 October 2011.
Authors, Editor and Contributors: Edited by Pablo LaFuente. Texts by Enrique Juncosa, Sven Lütticken, Tom McDonough, Maeve Connolly, Jeremy Millar, Bettina Funcke, Volker Pantenburg, Maria Muhle and Ian White.
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 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 the first complete overview of his work to date.
- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Irish Museum of Modern Art (15 July 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1907020616
- ISBN-13: 978-1907020612
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 1.9 x 25.4 cm
