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The Armory Show 2010

  • Wednesday 03 March 2010

Green On Red Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in this year's Armory Show in New York City with Gerard Byrne.

The Armory Show is America's leading fine art fair devoted to the most important art of the 20th and 21st centuries. In its eleven years, the fair has become an international institution. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during Armory Arts Week.

For The Armory Show, Green On Red Gallery will exhibit Subject, a three channel video work, by Gerard Byrne. The work addresses Brutalism in University architecture of the 1960's as a ruin, an allegory of a lost pedagogical civilisation which had been shaped in the form of a modular machine. Open-ended in form, the work uses a process of filmic literalisation, using an anthology of textual fragments culled from a University archive. Using the campus of Leeds University (Chamberlain Bon & Powell 1963- 75) to form a cohesive diegetic space, the work reconstructs a disparate series of texts, linked only by their contemporanity and their shared depiction of the Modern subject through variously analytic or expressive forms of writing. Using dramatisation, Subject fantastises on the ghostly spectre of the university's literal subjecthoods past. Simultaneously Subject questions the authority of it's own historicist methodology, through images and texts which are no longer quite believable.

Exhibition Dates: 3 - 7 March 2010
Venue: Green On Red Gallery, Booth 1420, Pier 94, The Armory Show, 12th Avenue at 55th Street, NYC.

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