oisín byrne
recentprojects
The Paper BallMarch 2009.
universe cubedOngoing
Project PlatformSeptember 2008.
Glamour GranniesMarch 2009.
Friendly Energy Being BookMarch 2009.
Born in Dublin, and exhibiting internationally, Oisin Byrne paints "like a dream" creating "marvellous tumbling universes of line and colour, which shout: freedom!" (Dubliner Magazine).
Advocating ‘an art which is the product of play’, Oisín’s ‘chilled, blissed-out vision’ (Aidan Dunne, Irish Times) is tempered with humour and lightness, and takes influence from varied eastern perspectives and cultural traditions.
Advocating ‘an art which is the product of play’, Oisín’s ‘chilled, blissed-out vision’ (Aidan Dunne, Irish Times) is tempered with humour and lightness, and takes influence from varied eastern perspectives and cultural traditions.
Byrne has become known for working with paper, making large scale origami installations, giant back-lit pin-prick drawings, and maps of the visible universe humbly pierced into a cardboard box. Oisín has collaborated with Astrophysicists, with fashion designers and with micro-sound composers in furthering his practice.
Oisin’s practice is international in both exhibition and production. In the past year he has had studio space in Montreal, Paris, LA, and most recently New York. He will be taking up a studio in Tokyo this coming summer.
His work is included in a number of important collections, including that of the Morrocan Monarchy, and his recent limited edition artist publication is stocked by Printed Matter NYC, and Shakespeare and Co., Paris.
CIRCA Magazine Review of Project Platform.
“Oisín Byrne’s usual phantasmogorical origami constructions were on this occasion supplemented by what seemed to be two-dimensional, flattened versions of the same, executed as a kind of geodesic wall drawing ringing the lower walls of the space. There were also accompanying video, portait and photographic works.”
Padraic E Moore (Curator Hugh Lane)
“Those familiar with Oisin Byrne’s oeuvre will notice a number of significant differences between this current body of work and his back catalogue. Heretofore, Byrne’s work is characterised by a unique style manifested in his paintings and drawings, which flicker between prismatic abstraction and fantastical figuration.
Though the work exhibited suggests the artist is veering towards a more austere and methodical approach, Byrne’s work continues to betray a preoccupation with thaumaturgy. Moreover, the work displayed here is directly affiliated with previous work, being distinguishable by a rigorous, almost obsessive but meditative production process.
The preoccupation with celestial bodies and constellations allows Byrne to continue creating work that radiates a sense of wonderment and enchantment whilst simultaneously developing an analytical, empirical and restrained idiom.
Ostensibly it may seem as though Byrne (who has become particularly well known for his installations) is the only contributor to Project Platform not to create an all encompassing immersive environment, it becomes apparent upon contemplation that each of the components in his booth are connected conceptually in an interconnecting dialogue. It is the quietly confident space between the works where new meaning is born and where the spectator is permitted to construct their subjective relationships between the pieces.”