Gerard Byrne
dal 4/4/2008 al 2/8/2008
Segnalato da
4/4/2008
Gerard Byrne
SMK National Gallery of Denmark / Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
With his exhibition Related Works, the Irish artist has located x-rummet right in the heart of the permanent collection, and extended it through three rooms, so that his art will be seen in relation to the other works of the Museum. His research is concerned with the way time, history and meaning are created.
x-rummet in the permanent collection
With his exhibition "Related Works", Irish Gerard Byrne has located x-rummet right in the heart of the permanent collection, and extended it through three rooms (206, 207, 208), so that his art will be seen in relation to the other works of the Museum.
History, time and temporality
Gerard Byrne is concerned with the way time, history and meaning are created. In his works, he often focuses on how history is a temporary construction which is continually being
re-created. Nothing is static and everything exists in time. This theme is addressed in different ways, and finds expression in the many layers of his works.
About the exhibition
The exhibition consists of the video installation *ZAN- *T185 r. 1, as well as four works specially created for this exhibition: the photographs A Young Woman Contemplating a Skull, The Reverse of a Framed Painting and The Earth after the Fall of Man and the video Temporally Removed.
Gerard Byrne (b 1969) lives and works in Dublin, and was educated at The Whitney Independent Study Program, New York and The M.F.A. New School for Social Research, New York, among other places. In recent years he has had several international exhibitions including The Irish Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennial in 2007, where the work *ZAN- *T185 r. 1 was shown.
Byrne is Professor of Time Based Media at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen.
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