Gerard Byrne: Images or Shadows

 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 dates.

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Published 2011