http://www.oisinbyrne.com OISIN BYRNE ARTIST WEBPAGE Thu, 17 May 2012 11:40:16 +0000 http://www.oisinbyrne.com en http://oisinbyrne.com/UBERMENSCH http://oisinbyrne.com/following/oisinbyrne.com/UBERMENSCH Thu, 17 May 2012 11:40:16 +0000 OISIN BYRNE ARTIST WEBPAGE 1583083 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1583083/DSC_1357.jpg" width="482" height="725" width_o="482" height_o="725" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1583083/DSC_1357_o.jpg" data-mid="7758901" border="0" align="left"/> Übermensch Oisin Byrne/ Christopher Mahon. NYC 2010 “I don’t want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear x-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express myself properly because I have to conceptualise complex ideas in this stupid language. But know I want to reach out with something more than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me” (Battleship Galactica) http://oisinbyrne.com/INHAUS-1 http://oisinbyrne.com/following/oisinbyrne.com/INHAUS-1 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:51:33 +0000 OISIN BYRNE ARTIST WEBPAGE 1929329 INHAUS Portobello Wharf <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1929329/INHAUS INTERIOR.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1134" height_o="756" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1929329/INHAUS INTERIOR_o.jpg" data-mid="9799279" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1929329/detail.jpg" width="670" height="455" width_o="1984" height_o="1350" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1929329/detail_o.jpg" data-mid="11231198" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1929329/Oisin Byrne INHAUS.jpg" width="670" height="444" width_o="1417" height_o="941" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1929329/Oisin Byrne INHAUS_o.jpg" data-mid="11660169" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1929329/_MG_8342.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1929329/_MG_8342_o.jpg" data-mid="9703322" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1929329/PROPER INHAUS NIGHT.jpg" width="670" height="490" width_o="2048" height_o="1498" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1929329/PROPER INHAUS NIGHT_o.jpg" data-mid="10249360" border="0" align="left"/> INHAUS was drawn for the window facade of the De Blacam and Meagher designed residence at Portobello Wharf by the canal. The modernist glass-box fronted structure supplies the inhabitants a grand view of the mountains over one of the oldest thouroughfares in Dublin, and the passer-by a voyeristic look within. This architectural intervention is a part of a series of life scale interior drawings by artist Oisin Byrne. The piece depicts a maximalist and lush gothic interior in minimalist black ink line drawing. Through large scale drawing panels, the artist installs a trompe l’oiel vaulted ceiling into this modernist cuboid. We are granted vision into an interior and peculiar realm. Not mathematical or cartesian, the drawing is ostensibly human: hand-made and wobbly, perspectives faltering, and patterns fluctuating. The columnades and vaulting are headed - literally - with faces and profiles, inhabiting and animating the architecture. INHAUS was initiated and achieved as a collaborative commision with the structure's inhabitants. Placing the drawing in the window, the viewer is both supplied with, and denied a vision of their private space: the drawing is both introspected and projected. As persona, it is resolutely still an outer layer, referencing an interior and intimate world. http://oisinbyrne.com/IMAGE-ARCHIVE http://oisinbyrne.com/following/oisinbyrne.com/IMAGE-ARCHIVE Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:00:27 +0000 OISIN BYRNE ARTIST WEBPAGE 1582958 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/oisin byrne artist.JPG" width="670" height="445" width_o="2048" height_o="1361" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/oisin byrne artist_o.JPG" data-mid="13890220" caption=" Studio Shot, 2011" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2494.JPG" width="670" height="436" width_o="2048" height_o="1333" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2494_o.JPG" data-mid="7792058" caption=" Joanna, Ink on Paper, 2011" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2530.JPG" width="670" height="445" width_o="2048" height_o="1361" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2530_o.JPG" data-mid="7791666" caption=" Gary, Watercolour and Pencil on Paper, 2010" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2784.JPG" width="670" height="445" width_o="2048" height_o="1361" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2784_o.JPG" data-mid="7791670" caption=" Snuggipuzzi, Ink on Paper, 2011" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/P1000294.jpg" width="670" height="470" width_o="2048" height_o="1439" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/P1000294_o.jpg" data-mid="13890629" caption=" Bode Puzzi, Ink on Paper, 2011 " border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/anthony_10.jpg" width="670" height="573" width_o="2048" height_o="1751" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/anthony_10_o.jpg" data-mid="7792054" caption=" The portrait of X.K., Pencil and Pastel on Paper, 2010" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/7.jpg" width="670" height="491" width_o="2048" height_o="1503" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/7_o.jpg" data-mid="7791786" caption=" Christoph, Pen on Paper, 2009 " border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/byrne_o_02.jpg" width="670" height="445" width_o="1000" height_o="665" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/byrne_o_02_o.jpg" data-mid="13889604" caption=" The Paper Ball, Exhibition Shot, Cambridge House, 2010" border="0" align="left"/>{image 15 }<img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_0829.JPG" width="670" height="445" width_o="2048" height_o="1361" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_0829_o.JPG" data-mid="13889617" caption=" Installation Shot, Project Platform, 2008" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_1357.JPG" width="670" height="445" width_o="2048" height_o="1361" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_1357_o.JPG" data-mid="13889621" caption=" Übermensch, Photograph on Paper, 2009" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_4584_26.JPG" width="670" height="478" width_o="2048" height_o="1463" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_4584_26_o.JPG" data-mid="13891632" caption=" Joanna, Ink on Paper, 2011" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_4578.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1363" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_4578_o.JPG" data-mid="13890195" caption=" Anthony, Ink on Newsprint, 2011" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_4635.JPG" width="670" height="445" width_o="2048" height_o="1361" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_4635_o.JPG" data-mid="13890213" caption=" Wallpaper, Installation shot, 2011" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/gertie.jpeg" width="670" height="474" width_o="1191" height_o="843" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/gertie_o.jpeg" data-mid="13896845" caption=" Gertie, Ink on Paper, 2011" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/test origami.jpg" width="670" height="532" width_o="1772" height_o="1409" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/test origami_o.jpg" data-mid="13890360" caption=" Folding and Unfolding Starspace, Paper construction, 2008" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/folding and unfolding starspace- 2009..JPG" width="670" height="445" width_o="2048" height_o="1361" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/folding and unfolding starspace- 2009._o.JPG" data-mid="13890214" caption=" Folding and Unfolding Star Space II, Paper Construction, 2008" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_4596_28.JPG" width="670" height="485" width_o="2048" height_o="1484" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_4596_28_o.JPG" data-mid="13890734" caption=" Anthony, Ink on Paper, 2011" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_1909_2.JPG" width="670" height="535" width_o="1915" height_o="1531" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_1909_2_o.JPG" data-mid="13889627" caption=" Fiona, Acrylic on Canvas, 2009" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2056.JPG" width="670" height="474" width_o="2048" height_o="1450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2056_o.JPG" data-mid="13889633" caption=" Leixlip Castle Library, Pencil on Paper, 2010" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2196.JPG" width="670" height="467" width_o="2048" height_o="1430" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2196_o.JPG" data-mid="7791645" caption=" Fiona, Pencil on Paper, 2010" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2282.JPG" width="670" height="490" width_o="2048" height_o="1500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2282_o.JPG" data-mid="13889640" caption=" Anthony, Pastel and Pencil on Paper, 2011" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2498.JPG" width="670" height="445" width_o="2048" height_o="1361" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2498_o.JPG" data-mid="13889662" caption=" Studio Shot, 2011" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2642.JPG" width="670" height="445" width_o="2048" height_o="1361" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2642_o.JPG" data-mid="13889672" caption=" Studio Shot, 2011" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_3909.JPG" width="670" height="445" width_o="2048" height_o="1361" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_3909_o.JPG" data-mid="13889680" caption=" Joanna with Vase, Studio Shot, 2011" border="0" align="left"/>{image 25,}<img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2105.JPG" width="670" height="472" width_o="2048" height_o="1443" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2105_o.JPG" data-mid="7791634" caption=" Donna at Pickering, Pencil on Paper, 2011" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2505.JPG" width="670" height="445" width_o="2048" height_o="1361" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2505_o.JPG" data-mid="7791656" caption=" Joanna, Ink on Paper, 2011" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2184.JPG" width="670" height="484" width_o="2048" height_o="1481" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1582958/DSC_2184_o.JPG" data-mid="7791642" caption=" X, Ink on Paper, 2010" border="0" align="left"/> http://oisinbyrne.com/FUTURES-10 http://oisinbyrne.com/following/oisinbyrne.com/FUTURES-10 Sun, 29 May 2011 23:07:32 +0000 OISIN BYRNE ARTIST WEBPAGE 1515783 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1515783/anto and ban.jpg" width="670" height="348" width_o="2048" height_o="1066" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1515783/anto and ban_o.jpg" data-mid="7409243" border="0" align="left"/> Byrne was selected for the FUTURES 10 exhibition at the RHA Gallagher Gallery in Dublin. This was the second in the annual series, which endeavours to document and contextualise the work of emerging artists around who exists a growing critical and curatorial consensus. Byrne exhibited a series of eleven large scale portraits on paper, described by Paul O'Brien as displaying a "lush exoticism" (CIRCA). The works are a part of a larger series and ongoing fixation in Byrne's practice with the portrait and artist-muse relationship. http://oisinbyrne.com/THE-PAPER-BALL http://oisinbyrne.com/following/oisinbyrne.com/THE-PAPER-BALL Sun, 29 May 2011 22:30:34 +0000 OISIN BYRNE ARTIST WEBPAGE 1515649 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1515649/byrne_o_000.jpg" width="670" height="319" width_o="2048" height_o="976" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1515649/byrne_o_000_o.jpg" data-mid="7408670" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1515649/byrne_o_01.jpg" width="670" height="335" width_o="1000" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1515649/byrne_o_01_o.jpg" data-mid="7408660" border="0" align="left"/> The Paper Ball was set in the historic Castletown House, filmed by cinematographer Andrew Legge, and conceived and directed by Oisin Byrne. The Paper Ball was filmed entirely on 16mm Bolex cameras, and edited on a Steenbeck at the Irish Film Institute. Under the direction of Byrne, the cast of around 90 performers and artists co-created the costumes and the experience. In both the paintings and in the film, the aesthetics of the classical, the grand, the elite, the decadent and the powerful are subverted. In the democracy of paper as a medium, and in the politicised act of ‘dress-up‘, a fundamental freedom of identity and a malleable aesthetic power is exposed. The film has been screened selectively in Dublin , NYC and Chicago and is restricted to physical projection on 16mm. http://oisinbyrne.com/UNIVERSE-CUBED http://oisinbyrne.com/following/oisinbyrne.com/UNIVERSE-CUBED Sun, 29 May 2011 22:03:39 +0000 OISIN BYRNE ARTIST WEBPAGE 1515518 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1515518/byrne_o_08_1.jpg" width="670" height="454" width_o="2048" height_o="1390" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1515518/byrne_o_08_1_o.jpg" data-mid="7703440" caption="UNIVERSE CUBED, Cardboard, Vinyl, Stand, 1.5m x 1.5m x 1.5m&lt;br /&gt; Photographed at Frank Gehry Library, Princeton University, New Jersey." border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1515518/byrne_o_09_2.jpg" width="670" height="454" width_o="1536" height_o="1043" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1515518/byrne_o_09_2_o.jpg" data-mid="7703433" caption="UNIVERSE CUBED AG, Silver, 8cm x 8cm x 8cm&lt;br /&gt; Photographed at Minutiae, Roscommon. " border="0" align="left"/> UNIVERSE CUBED is a collaboration with Professor John Richard Gott, Head of Astrophysics at Princeton University. The piece is a gnomonic projection of the entire visible celestial sphere into a cube. Two versions of the box - one in paper and one in solid silver - are currently installed in Princeton University at the Frank Gehry Library. The solid silver version of the box was made with the help of silversmith Sadhbh Mc Cormack. The north circumpolar stars form the top of the cube, the south circumpolar stars form the bottom of the cube and the autumn, summer, spring, and winter stars form the four sides. The sizes of the stars reflect their brightness (the area of the star image is proportional to its brightness). Aswell as referencing ancient Korean cubic star maps, the cubic shape represents the limitations of any conceptual understanding or framework in which we attempt to contain the boundless and expanding universe. This is also a mundane object transformed and transfigured: it is the vision of the infinite within the mundane, the celestial within the terrestrial. http://oisinbyrne.com/MUD-BODIES http://oisinbyrne.com/following/oisinbyrne.com/MUD-BODIES Sun, 29 May 2011 21:47:55 +0000 OISIN BYRNE ARTIST WEBPAGE 1515487 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1515487/DSC_0426-2.jpg" width="670" height="448" width_o="2048" height_o="1370" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1515487/DSC_0426-2_o.jpg" data-mid="7407834" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1515487/DSC_0428.jpg" width="670" height="448" width_o="2048" height_o="1370" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1515487/DSC_0428_o.jpg" data-mid="7407871" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1515487/DSC_0392.jpg" width="670" height="448" width_o="2048" height_o="1370" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83883/1515487/DSC_0392_o.jpg" data-mid="7407826" border="0" align="left"/> MUD BODIES was a participatory performance by Oisin Byrne and Christopher Mahon for the three day Radical Love seminar. The piece was conceived to complement and enact the theoretical drive of the seminar. The participants woke early to a fire, and a large pot of bubbling hot black mud, applied to face and then to bodies. The mud’s particular visual effect occluded the individual, the self, and the professional - rendering others and oneself unrecognisable. Encasement in soil remembers and envisions interment; a death of self. The mud covered bodies proceeded to the lake, washing off the mud amid notions of rebirth and baptism. The photographic images were produced with the assistance of Frank Wasser and Patrick Hough.