FLIGHT INFORMATION DISPLAY BOARD

(Above) FLIGHT TIME DISPLAY BOARD(2009), Galerie W, Paris.

Aviation imagery has been one of the dominant subject matters in the work of artist Gary Farrelly for almost a decade now. In pursuit of a Utopically instructive art, Farrelly has designed and drawn up detailed plans for over 131 airport terminals. Farrelly has also produced figurative and unclassified artwork inspired by airliners, and airports. Between 2009 and 2011 Farrelly bodied forth a series of works inspired by Flight Information Display Boards (FIDB's). Farrelly has reproduced the information typical to a FIDB in mixed media on surfaces as divers as bashed metal, formica, beauty board, cast concrete and cardboard. An interesting aspect of the works is Farrelly's redaction of the blank spaces between items of information. Perhaps this heightens the otherwise austere and bureaucratic work's fine art sensibility. The artworks produced in this manner are a striking and brilliant visualization of the international and glamorous mythology surrounding modern air travel.