2012年4月7日，东画廊隆重推出令人期待已久的爱尔兰艺术家Michael Ryan的第二次个展“坠落”。艺术家2010年的个展“梦魇”让许多人喜欢上了《螺旋桨女孩和其他故事》这本摄影集，他创造的奇异梦幻世界引起了许多观者的共鸣。此次Micheal带来他在过去两年间最新创作的15幅作品，此外还将展出2部短片以及3件作品中的道具。

在“坠落”展览中，艺术家的女儿依然是主角，随着她的成长，故事也发生了微妙的变化，但依旧保持了Michael Ryan梦幻般世界的风格。童话和梦魇交汇营造出超现实和惊悚的场景，让人不安地在梦与醒之间洞察这个世界。每幅作品诉说着主角在某些方面以某种方式的坠落，每个坠落瞬间都抓住了神秘的传统造型，从而避开现代设计软件的虚假，呈现出更加根本的视觉语言。

作品中的道具全部由Michael Ryan亲自制作，他花了大量时间和精力去提高这方面的技术，从用真鸟的骨头和头盖骨做的双头鸟到小型的发条女人装置，这些释放了他的想象力，对他来说没有什么比用摄影记录下来更好的方式了。去年Michael开始尝试对动态影像的探索并将继续下去，当然是以默片的形式，这也是此次展览的一个亮点。

Michael Ryan毕业于爱尔兰知名艺术学院Crawford。这些年，他的艺术作品在全球得到了许多奖项并且刊登在各地的杂志上。2008年他从3000多名摄影师中脱颖而出，成为60 名被列入文艺复兴基金会画册和展览的艺术家之一。2008年和2009年他分别荣获了英国黑白摄影杂志评选的年度肖像摄影将和年度摄影师奖。Michael Ryan目前生活工作于上海。

April 7th, 2012, Don Gallery proudly presents the long-awaited “Fallen”, the second solo exhibition by Irish artist Michael Ryan. The 2010 "Chimera" exhibition made famous the photo collection “Propeller Girl and the other Tales”. The strange fantasy world he created caused the resonance with many visitors. This time, Michael brings 15 works of his latest creation from the past two years, together with two short films and five devices featured in the works.

The artist's daughter still plays many of the protagonist that “Fall”. Along with her growth, the story has also undergone a subtle change, but still retains the dream-like style of Michael Ryan. Surreal and horror scenes are forged when fairy tales meets nightmares, presenting disturbing insight into the world between dream and waking. Each piece tells about the fall of the protagonist in some respects, and each fall instantly grasps the mystery with traditional style. Modern visual elements and style are avoided to show a more fundamental visual language.

The devices are all built by Michael himself. The artist spent significant amount of time and effort to improve the technology, from making the double-headed birds from genuine birds’ skeletons, to the small Clockwork woman device. So there is no better way than photography to record the props which inspire his imagination. Last year, Michael began to explore dynamic photographing and will continue to do so. The presentation will be in the form of silent film, which is also a highlight of the exhibition.

“Girl with Butterflies in her Hair” and Still Life Photographer of the Year 2008. Besides, Michael Ryan was one of 60 photographs chosen form 3,000 to be featured in the Renaissance foundation book and exhibition, whose judges include professionals from Magnum Photo Agency.