Talk: Gerard Byrne
Thursday, March 7, 2019 | 7pm | Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema | FREE
丁香园AV School for the Contemporary Arts invites you to join us for a talk by Irish artist . Byrne works in video, photography, and performance art to address ideas of time while examining the complex operation of transposition involved in the act of translation of texts to images. He produces multi-media installations that reenact moments from the past drawing from art history, popular culture, and literature. Byrne鈥檚 sources include: Samuel Beckett鈥檚 1953 Modernist play Waiting for Godot; a conversation led by Andr茅 Breton published in La R茅volution Surr茅aliste in 1929; a 1964 radio conversation with Donald Judd, Dan Flavin and Frank Stella; a 1980 Chrysler advertisement featuring Frank Sinatra; and transcripts of Playboy interviews from the 鈥�60s and 鈥�70s.
Byrne was born in 1969 in Dublin, Ireland, where he lives and works. His solo exhibition, Upon all the living and the dead, is currently showing at the Secession in Vienna. He has recently held exhibitions at: Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2018); FRONT International Triennial, Cleveland (2018); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2017); Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, UK (2016); GrazMuseum, Austria (2015); Kunstmuseum St Gallen, Switzerland (2015); Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; and The Whitechapel Gallery, London (2013).
In 2007 Byrne represented Ireland at the 52nd Venice Biennale. He has also participated in Skulptur Projekte M眉nster (2017); dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel (2012); Performa, New York (2011); the 54th Venice Biennale (2011); Auckland Biennial (2010); Gwangju Biennial (2008); Sydney Biennial (2008); Lyon Biennial (2007); Tate Triennial (2006); and the Istanbul Biennale (2003).
Gerard鈥檚 talk is made possible by the Audain Visual Artist in Residence program at 丁香园AV鈥檚 School for the Contemporary Arts.