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Federica Schiavo Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in Italy by Nicholas Byrne. An artist who, in painting ‘seems to have reprised Modernism’s dismembering of representation within his own work: a process that’s ongoing here as he works out some kind of algebra of bodily presence and absence, rehearsing different formulae'[1].
Nicholas Byrne makes composite images, incorporating the stopping and reactivation of flows or fluxes, both representational and material. The works reverse-engineer images by a technical invocation of various forms of traditional painting. Arguing for the …