Cerith Wyn Evans

Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans presents a synaesthetic exhibition in Paris, where the visitor is immersed in a multisensory environment that thrills senses and perception.

The Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris is showcasing the first exhibition by Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans, where he unveils a body of new sculptural, light and sound works. The exhibition is called “as if, seeing in the manner of listening… hearing, as if”, and it suggests plays between the visible and the invisible, the material and the immaterial.

Cerith Wyn Evans, S=U=T=R=A2, 2017 — **Top:** Cerith Wyn Evans, *Composition for Flutes2*, 2017. Eleven crystal flutes, ‘breathing’ unit and valve system, plastic tubes. **Above:** Cerith Wyn Evans, *S=U=T=R=A2*, 2017. Two Murano Glass chandeliers fabricated by Galliano Ferro

The exhibition simultaneously orchestrates luminosity and sound vibrations, offering a synesthesia-like experience that plays with the viewer’s senses and perceptions. On the ground-floor, two majestic, over two-meter tall chandeliers interchange through light and music. Manufactured from Murano blown glass, these light fixtures are a modern response to Eastern precedents. The subtle light they emanate is triggered by a computer program set to the rhythm of two piano scores composed and played by Wyn Evans himself.

The lower level features a large installation comprised of fifteen transparent glass panels suspended from the ceiling and complemented by sentence in neon lights as a frieze along the walls. Once again, another soundtrack, composed by the artist, emanates from tiny speakers embedded in the glass panels. The luminous segments of the neon lights reflected by the panes of glass seem to proliferate infinitively, freely adapted from a quotation by Michel Foucault.

Cerith Wyn Evans, I=N=T=E=R=V=A=L=S (Duet on Reflection), 2017 — Cerith Wyn Evans, *I=N=T=E=R=V=A=L=S (Duet on Reflection)*, 2017. Neon lights mounted on steel frame

An erudite artist, Cerith Wyn Evans often borrows excerpts from literary, poetic, or philosophical works: for him, quotations takes on the function of a “found object.” In the adjacent vaulted room, flutes and tubes made of transparent glass form an aerial, hanging sculpture. Running on a computer program, like that of the chandeliers, this new kind of “instrument” operates autonomously, and endows the impression of respiration.

until 28 July 2017
Cerith Wyn Evans
As if, seeing in the manner of listening… hearing, as if looking
Marian Goodman Gallery
79 Rue du Temple, Paris

Cerith Wyn Evans

Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans presents a synaesthetic exhibition in Paris, where the visitor is immersed in a multisensory environment that thrills senses and perception.

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