Wyn Geleynse

Wyn Geleynse: A Man Trying to Explain Pictures
Sylvain Campeau, Philippe Dubois et al

For more than 25 years Wyn Geleynse's multimedia installations (a mix of cinema, video, photography and sculpture) have explored the frailty of masculine identity. Often using himself as his own subject, Geleynse makes the male the object of the gaze, depicting him as despicable, pitiful and transparent but also endearing and empathetic. Aside from different mediums, Geleynse achieves his results through the use of symbolism, primarily in the form of toys, to relay to the observer the idea of coming of age. Four essays, each focusing on a different espect of this multi-faceted career, provide a thorough overview of a long and very particular practice. In English and French.

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Depuis plus de 25 ans, Geleynse a recours au cinéma, à la photographie, à la vidéo et à la sculpture afin de créer des installations qui interpellent ses idées au spectateur. Quatre textes étudient les liens entre les dispositifs cinématographiques et l'importance du récit dans l'œuvre de Geleynse ainsi que le lien à la culture populaire qui imprègne les œuvres de l'artiste. En français et anglais.

Museum London (05/2006) 64 pp 40 col. ill. 9 x 8 in Hardcover 1-897215-05-3 $25.00 Can./U.S. (20 euros)

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Wyn Geleynse : Trop haut, trop bas, de loin
Françoise Parfait

Chacune des installations vidéos de Geleynse est une mise-en-scène théâtrale qui met en évidence la fragilité d'un monde d'illusions. Geleynse jette un regard sur la condition humaine avec un subtil mélange d'ironie et d'humanité. Françoise Parfait est l'auteure de Vidéo: un art contemporain (Éditions du Regard, 2001).

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Each of Geleynse's video installations is a unique theatrical mise-en-scene reminiscent of something between an architect's model and Picasso's early cardboard sculptures. The videos themselves each feature the artist in a series of solitary roles such as a clumsy tightrope walker or a suited business man suspended upside down. The precarity of the situation is dramatized by the fragility of its projection environment. Geleynse's work comments on the human condition with a subtle blend of irony and humanity. Born in Rotterdam, Wyn Gelenyse lives and works in Toronto. Françoise Parfait is the author of Video: un art contemporain (Editions du Regard 2001). In English and French.

Centre culturel canadien, Paris /Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris (2003) 66 pp ill. coul. 21 x 13 cm 1-896940-28-5 $22.00

 

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