Panoramic view
If in "Part 1" I talked about a fog sculpture this time it's about a light sculpture. Light sculpture, not really made entirely out of light, but out of neon lights. This time I knew what to expect, I knew how it looked, but I was still curious to see it live.Cerith Wyn Evans first came to attention as a filmmaker producing experimental films and collaborative works. He has subsequently expanded his practice to incorporate sculpture, photography, film and text to communicate his interest in language and perception.The sculpture is called Form in Space... by Light(in Time) is made of almost two kilometres of neon light suspended from the ceiling .
Picture from below
To me the shapes made a lot of sense, and it also looked like very neat and simple light painting. Very soon I read the artist's statement saying how he drew the routes of planes he saw on the sky, which impressed me and it gave it even more meaning or substance. Though, of course, you can chose to see what you want and interpret it how you wish. I chose to enjoy it.
It was changing shape depending where you stood, it would change the whole meaning and effect, but from what I saw people usually chose the same place to look from. It consisted of 3 part, very clearly stated in the text but also very logical and visual: the work emerges from a single neon ring before developing into a collection of three discs reminiscent of the diagrams opticians employ for testing eyesight. These are the ‘Occulist Witnesses’ which Marcel Duchamp referenced in his sculpture, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) 1915-23. The installation culminates in a maze of complex lines that trace the trajectory of alignments, gestures, folds, orientations and footsteps.
The work has been created for the annual Tate Britain Commission, supported by Sotheby’s, which invites a contemporary British artist to create a new artwork in response to the grand space of the Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain.
The work has been created for the annual Tate Britain Commission, supported by Sotheby’s, which invites a contemporary British artist to create a new artwork in response to the grand space of the Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain.
I personally saw it three times or more; very pleasant, peaceful and interesting each time. How it was made I don't know, I know that it took 25 people and 19 full days to put it up, and surely a lot of more before that.
Pictures: Zamfirache Teodora-Stefania
Info: http://www.tate.org.uk/about/press-office/press-releases/tate-britain-commission-2017-cerith-wyn-evans-forms-spaceby-light
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/tate-britain-commission-2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39406291
