Monday, 16 September 2013

Gerard Byrne

Gerard Byrne is a visual artist that we were told to learn about. He works in the mediums of photography, film and video.
His work is influenced by literature and theatre that represent the history of cultural forms through society. His Photography is usually based over the past few years threw historical site projects, and his film making is where he reconstructs historical conversations from popular magazines from 1960's - 80's.

He can be found on many different museum and art gallery site such as:

http://www.gerardbyrne.com/ - his own site that can bring you to his works and projects in other art gallery sites, such as : www.greenonredgallery.com and www.lissongallery.com




These are some images and an image of a film installation i found on the Lisson Gallery website. here you can see how he uses typical and popular arguments and topics of the 1960's-80's.


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