Barry McGee @ Biennale de Lyon - Opening pictures

[glltn]

Barry McGee was invited at the 10th Edition of the Biennale de Lyon art festival. McGee's work is once again breathtaking with one of his biggest installation to date!
Private viewing took place yesterday evening, here are the pictures:

glltn.com/blog/2009/09/16/barry-mcgee-biennale-de-lyon-opening/

Thanks for the pics, sick, Mcgee looks like he's letting go, so dirty raw minimal. Wish I could check it out.

Videos here:
slamxhype.com/art-design/barry-mcgee-at-biennale-de-lyon-video/
www.biennaledelyon.com/contemporaryart2009/




Wooden structures, vans, graffiti, tagged sculptures and colours that overspill motifs combining the decorative and the hard-edged: Barry McGee’s oeuvre is naturally, explosively in your face. McGee is one of the current art figures who have best pulled off the marriage of graffiti and urban art with a thoroughgoing mastery of his materials and the technical skill of an engineer. Frankly receptive to street culture, his work takes place in a buffer zone between the intellectual and the "popular" – a terrain of possibilities that scorns the directives and injunctions governing life in big cities.

With the support of Montana Colorst.

[Karl Read]

Certainly not the best examples of Mcgee's work iv seen.

I can see how you'd say that as his installations aren't always easily commodified or digested but personally I love what's gong on here. Suits the place perfectly. He's talked before about getting trapped into rhythms and doing the same thing over and over and how he wanted to break free. Which led to his more abstract work and he used to build these wood structures/sculptures and adorn them with hundreds of framed drawings, think it's refreshing to see him to think outside the box and not feel like he has to bath the whole place in drawings, it's minimal and dirty, I find it refreshing.

Slow and steady this guy, he's had numerous installations around the world now, he was also chosen to do an installation at the Armory Center for the Arts in California opening in a couple days (along side some major names like Ruscha, Nauman, Buren.
pasadenanow.com/main/2009/09/15/armory-announces-20th-anniversary-exhibition

And just had a major piece recently acquired by the Berkely Museum.
Love this piece...

[volvic]

absolutely love this and love the direction he is going in, tempted to make the trip to lyon for this

[francis]

whut is DFW? anyone know?

Book.
donutchocula.blogspot.com/2008/09/dfw-new-book-by-graffiti-artist-barry.html

I'm liking the look of that work too, big and bold. Loving the head out the wall, enjoying the kids trying to make a big enough noise that that head would make if it could shout. This has got me thinking about letting McGee loose in the Hayward at London, where this sort of work would really translate well.

DFW is the name of a Mcgee book, maybe that will have some clues? THR which he also uses a lot is the name of one of his crews. So maybe DFW is another crew? Not sure.

[francis]

Sept 16, 2009 20:35:44 GMT 1 @wizzy said:

Book.
donutchocula.blogspot.com/2008/09/dfw-new-book-by-graffiti-artist-barry.html

OK, so what does the DFW in the title of his book stand for then?

[afroken]

DFW = Down For Whatever

[volvic]

any excuse v

[afroken]

Just spreading the love H!

[francis]

my mom says it stands for "Dallas Fort Worth"

[afroken]

Explained here....

Sept 16, 2009 20:58:52 GMT 1 afroken said:

DFW = Down For Whatever

Oh yeah, Duh. Nice collection!!!

[Harveyn]

Nice work V. Did the McGee come with assembly instructions. That said at the price I assume it to have cost I would have expected installation by Barry himself... ;D

[afroken]

Price wise I think you'd be surprised Neil. As Snausages said, slow and steady with this guy; no stupid unexplained price hikes. But yes, it took me the best part of 4 hours to hang.

Rumour has it that McGee has a blockbuster show at Deitch next year.