Gerard Byrne

The Renaissance Society, the Lismore Castle Arts, and 2010 Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, have co-commissioned in collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum a new multi-channel film installation titled “A thing is a hole in a thing it is not.” As the title—a reference to Carl Andre’s famous dictum—suggests, Byrne’s attention here will be on the historical reception of Minimalism as a movement, a history that is resonant within the context of The Renaissance Society’s early engagement with that movement’s artists.

Art in America published a review of a previous incarnation of the exhibit, presented at Lismore Castle Arts.

Gerard Byrne (b. 1969) is a visual artist working with photographic, video, and live art. In 2007 he represented Ireland in the Venice Biennale. Other major presentations of his work include the biennales of Gwangju and Sydney in 2008, Lyon in 2007, the Tate Triennial in 2006, and the Istanbul Biennale in 2003. Solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at the ICA Boston and the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (both 2008), Dusseldorf Kunstverein, the Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver (2007), the Frankfurter Kunstverein (2003) and at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2002).

Gerard Byrne
A thing is a hole in a thing it is not