5811 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637

Reception: 9 January 2011, 4:00pm—7:00pm

On View: 9 January 2011—27 February 2011

The Renaissance Society, Lismore Castle Arts, C. Waterford, Ireland, and the 2010 Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, in collaboration with Van Abbemuseum, co-commissioned Irish artist Gerard Byrne (b. 1969) to create this new multi-channel film installation titled A thing is a hole in a thing it is not. As this title—a quotation of Carl Andre’s famous dictum—suggests, Byrne’s attention here will be on the historical reception of Minimalism as a movement, a history that is resonant within the context of The Society’s early engagement with that movement’s artists.