Gary Farrelly

JOBERG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND INTERIOR OF A GLAMEROUS AIRLINER (2007)

2008-07-06T05:40:00.000-07:00

GOLDENAGE OF COMMERCIAL AVIATION(2007)

2008-06-11T12:16:00.001-07:00

Creating an art for the 21st century.

PLANS SECTIONS AND ELEVATIONS, ROYAL INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS, DUBLIN (2008)

2008-05-28T08:00:00.000-07:00

A dossier of 100 original drawings by Gary Farrelly has been on display to the public throughout the month of May at The Royal Institute of Architects, Dublin. Part of the exhibition/ Plans, Sections and Elevations, the dossier by Farrelly (third from the left) included works entitled Charles J Haughey International Airport, Network Oligopoly and Design for the head-quarters of a State run hotel chain. Images of the individual works will be posted in the coming weeks and the work is expected to go on show in Paris in summer 2008.

THE FIRST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ROAMING BIENNIAL OF TEHRAN

2008-05-04T03:44:00.000-07:00

Gary Farrelly will be exhibiting the below posted artwork at the First Annual International Roaming Biennial of Tehran. The exhibition which is themed 'Urban Jealousy' is curated by Serhat koksal and Amirali Ghasemi. It starts on May 30th 2008 and will be exhibited initially in two legs/ in Tehran and in Istanbul. For more information see: www.biennialtehran.com.
Participation in the biennial is part of Farrelly's ongoing proliferation of his obsessive world view and Defastenist discourse to the widest possible audience.

LATEST WORK: Infrastructure and private vulgarities

2008-04-23T07:01:00.001-07:00

See the latest artworks by Gary Farelly (1983-2077). Never seen before works such as: 'Sodom Autobahn', 'important personalities' and 'God bless our motorway' are now on public display at Galerie W*. The new works are part of Farrelly's ongoing permanent exhibition of obsessive art at Galerie W. Regarding these developments the artist has this to say:

«These pictures of airliners, motorways and airport terminals are inflected with an obsession with the rigorous, robust and monumental erections of our time. Functioning as vessels for personal narratives and private vulgarities - The artwork is a powerful marriage of the obvious and the disguised - the aesthetic and the conceptual - the rhetorical and the censored. I would say, without a hint of irony, that these works mark a milestone in the development of art and all human culture"

*Galerie W, 44 Rue Lepic, 75018 Paris. (Metro : Blanche)

WHITEBOX GALLERY MASQUERADE AUCTION

2008-03-31T09:42:00.000-07:00

Gary Farrelly took part in the fundraising masquerade auction at the Whitebox gallery in New York. Other artists involved in the event included Shimon Okshteyn, Troy Henriksen and Max Gimblett. The work by Farrelly was among the items sold. All proceeds go towards the funding of the Whitebox gallery exhibition programme 2008/9.

IMPRESSIVE (2008)

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PAN-ULTIMATE AIRLINER(2008)

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NEW CITY (2007/8)

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UNTITLED (2008)

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MID-AIR COLLISION (2008)

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CRUISING (2008)

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AIR DISASTER (2008)

2008-03-30T05:58:00.002-07:00

SODOM AUTOBAHN (2008)

2008-03-30T05:58:00.001-07:00

737 ON STAND AT AEROGARE (2008)

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737 BOARDING BY STAIRS (2008)

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J G Ballard Autobahn (2008)

2008-03-30T05:22:00.001-07:00

Amanda Lear International Airport (2008)

2008-03-30T05:19:00.000-07:00

NEW OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY

2008-03-25T08:07:00.000-07:00

GARY FARRELLY BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1983, Gary Farrelly is an emerging Irish artist based in Paris, France. One of the founders of the Defastenist movement, Farrelly co-wrote ’The manifesto for an obsessive art’ in 2004 with curators Padraic Moore, Donna O’Donovan and artist David Turpin. Though still very young, Farrelly has already accrued an impressive resume of artistic achievements in several countries.

Between 2002 and 2006, Farrelly studied fine art at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. Apparently disappointed by the lack of commitment and fanaticism evident in fellow students, he began publishing a Xerox art periodical called kunstbahnhoff, in which he illustrated his arguments and aesthetic principals with decorative statistics and explanatory diagrams. Through the dissemination of the Kunstbahnhoff, he came into contact with other obsessive artists: Liam Ryan, Oisin Byrne, Sofie Iremonger and Alex Reilly. In 2003 they founded Defastenism. In 2004 the group was augmented by the curators Padraic.E Moore and Donna O Donovan and the artists David Walter Mac Dermott and David Turpin. Farrelly remains central to the movement which has exhibited in various cities including Dublin, Berlin and New York. Farrelly illustrated various publications for the group including, Unreal City, Europa, Kunstpunkt and Der Schwarze Kanal. Through his activities with the Defastenists, Farrelly quickly gained a reputation for his "paintings and prints that are edgy and gifted" (The Dubliner, April 2005) as well as his personal charisma and highly rhetorical discourse

Gary Farrelly has work in over 100 collections in seven countries. In 2005 he became the youngest ever artist to have work purchased by the Crawford Museum in Cork and Trinity University in Dublin. In 2007 he was again the youngest artist in the Cartography exhibition at the Crawford museum. As of 2007, Farrelly is represented in Paris by Galerie W.

Farrelly has had two solo exhibitions at the time of writing: Saddam International Airport (2006), in which he exhibited a series of drawings of airport terminals built by despots beside a series of fictional airports dedicated cultural icons of personal interest (e.g. Faye Dunaway International Airport and Flugbahnhoff Eva Braun). Obsessive Territories (2007) featured 7 large maps of fictional countries and over 100 ’postcards’ from the imaginary states.

'For Gary Farrelly (1983-2077), ideological and aesthetic compromise is the most difficult aspect of "Real Life". As a consequence, he furnishes a "compensating" art that is a precise physical manifestation of egocentric world view. In and through his practice he develops strategies to implement his will. Habitually working with the flotsam and jetsam of an ultra-consumerist society, Farrelly modifies history, revises geographical boundaries and populated the world with images, concepts and issues that stimulate him most.

Through fastidious and obsessive processes Farrelly produces exquisite art objects, which enable him to simultaneously attain a position of perpetually gratifying contingency. By means of devotional commitment to his work Farrelly expects to eventually construct and inhabit that sought after state of utopia'

Don’t cry-work (2007) P.E.Moore

The frequently discussed obsessions of the artist include cartography, aviation, espionage, despotism, cryptography, air disasters and public transport amongst others. In effect, Farrelly manages to tell personal stories and share his dogmatic world view via the universally readable treatment of his subject matter. Working at least 10 hours a day, seven days a week in his ’kunstbureau’ – atelier, the artist keeps the ritualistic physical processes of his practice a strictly guarded secret. The artist is scheduled to exhibit in Dublin, Paris and New York in 2008. Ultimately he would like to show a series of Transport nostalgia artworks in an exhibition at Pyongyang international airport, North Korea.

Exhibition Title; PLANS, SECTIONS AND ELEVATIONS

2008-03-24T11:37:00.000-07:00

Exhibition Title; PLANS, SECTIONS AND ELEVATIONS

Exhibition Title; PLANS, SECTIONS AND ELEVATIONS

Location; Royal Institute of Architects,8 Merrion
Sq.Dublin 2.

Dates; May 8th-May 31st 2008.

Participants;

Detta Allessi
Gary Farrelly
Christoph Kronke
David Turpin
Maurizio Scalera
Swollen Design
Andrzej Wejchert

Curated by Padraic E. Moore 08.
boybright1982@yahoo.com

Gary Farrelly, LAIKA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (2007/8), on show at galerie w

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Gary Farrelly, IMPORTANT PERSONAL INFORMATION (2007), private collection

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Gary Farrelly, DESIGN FOR WIDE BODY COMMERCIAL AIRLINER (2008), on show at galerie w

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Gary Farrelly, AUTO PROPULSIVE (2008), on show at Galerie W

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Gary Farrelly, HOMOEROTIC AIR DISASTER (2008), work in progress - photographed at artists studio.

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