Gerard Byrne One year, six months, two weeks and four days ago

Dates: March 26th - April 25th, 2009
Preview: Wednesday 25th March, 6-8pm

Green On Red Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Gerard Byrne One year, six months, two weeks and four days ago both photographic and filmic work. The exhibition is formed around a combination of disparate reference points; Large photographs of newsstands showing now outdated magazine covers, photographs of the reverse of Old Master paintings, a film of two women handling glass and stone pieces with exacting precision, eclectic small photographs that seem to present America in another time. In different subtle ways the works exhibited accumulate a set of questions about the interrelationship of time and representation. The works presented, whilst intentionally diverse and distinct in their ambitions, collectively reinforce a sense of the relationship between photography and time.

Magazines have been an important source in Byrne's work. He has staged/filmed a text from Playboy magazine and photographed various newsstands. The newsstand photographs highlight the contrast between the single image and the flux of imagery within the news stands. The cultural artifice of these inanimate objects reflects on the way in which society is mediated. The Newsstand captures a moment in history; a still life of cultural artefacts, the meaning of which is altered through time. Each work has a unique title, which changes each time the work is shown indicating the changing time lapse.

The titles of the three photographs of the backs of paintings Trompe l'oeil. The reverse of a framed Painting, A Young Woman Contemplating a skull and The earth after the Fall of Man, refer to the relationship between image and object. And the schism between artwork and artefact. The works, all of which are in the Statens Museum collection in Copenhagen have an art historical starting point, referencing Gijsbrecht's 17th century painting The reverse of a Framed painting .

In his film piece 1968/Mica & Glass (temporarily removed), Byrne requested the conservators to de-install the Robert Smithson piece Untitled (Mica Glass). He documented the process and the orchestration of this action is revealed in his interventions during the filming. The film is on a loop and of a tangible duration, chronicling both the museological time of the conservators and Smithson's geological time.

Born in Dublin in 1969, Byrne studied in Dublin and in New York at the Whitney Independent Study Programme, graduating in 1999. Byrne received the Paul Hamlyn award in 2006 and represented Ireland at the 52nd Venice Biennale in June 2007. He lives and works in Dublin.

Recent Solo exhibitions include the ICA Boston and the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (2008) as well as the Kunstverein Dusseldorf (2007).

Gerard Byrne's work has been widely exhibited in significant international exhibitions including: Henry Moore Foundation, group exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Bern (2009) The Turin Triennale; The Gwangju Biennale and The Biennale of Sydney (all 2008); The Lyon Biennale (2007), A Short History of Performance 3, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; 3rd Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London (2006); Eindhoven - Istanbul, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2005); The American Effect, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Istanbul Biennale, (2003); Manifesta 4, (2002).
Forthcoming exhibitions include the Kunstmuseum Basel (16 May - 15 August 2009) and solo projects at the Glasgow International and the Renaissance Society Chicago.

There will be a talk scheduled during the exhibition, details of which will be on the website.

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