George Byrne

Post Truth

George Byrne
Stephanie Emerson, George Byrne, Ian Volner, Michael Worthington
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Hardback
h298 x 247mm - 144pg
28 Jul 2022 GE
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9783775752534
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Turning what architect Rem Koolhaas famously referred to as "junkspace", the spatial flotsam of the Anthropocene, into candy-coloured dreamscapes, George Byrne depicts the gritty urbanism of Los Angeles in sublime otherworldliness. Arriving a decade ago, the Australian artist was immediately enthralled by the sprawling cityscape, mesmerized by the way the sunlight transformed it into two-dimensional, almost painterly abstractions, underpinned by a distinctive pastel color palette. Extending his practice beyond the confines of the lens by extracting elements from various images, his series Post Truth dwells in the liminal space between real and imagined. Reassembling the urban landscape into striking, ascetic collages of color and geometric fragments, Byrne creates postmodernist oases in the metropolis that masterfully harness the malleability of the photographic medium. Byrne' s compositions evoke associations with Miami Beach' s Art Deco, the Memphis Group' s designs, as well as the work of David Hockney or Ed Ruscha, and at the same time tap into the specific aesthetics of today' s visual culture played out on Instagram. They are filled with a sense of suspended reality-and never fail to convey a feeling of joy.
Born in Sydney in 1976, GEORGE BYRNE graduated from Sydney College of the Arts in 2001, and traveled extensively before settling in Los Angeles in 2010. Today, he is internationally recognized for his large-scale photographs shot with medium-format film. Byrne has exhibited internationally and is currently represented by galleries in Sydney, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Toronto, Vancouver, Oslo, Mumbai and Taipei. In 2020, he was named the Minimalist Photographer of the Year.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9783775752534
Published: 28 Jul 2022
Published In: Germany
Imprint: Hatje Cantz
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Format: Hardback
Height: 298mm
Width: 247mm
Weight: 1140g
Pages: 144

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