Milan, Cerith Wyn Evans stars at Pirelli HangarBicocca with her largest exhibition in Italy

In Milan, Pirelli HangarBicocca hosts. from Oct. 31, 2019 to Feb. 23, 2020, ...the Illuminating Gas, the largest exhibition ever held in Italy by Cerith Wyn Evans (Llanelli, Wales, UK, 1958; lives and works in London) presenting an extraordinary selection of twenty-five works including historical sculptures, complex monumental installations and new productions, which in turn offer visitors a unique synaesthetic experience.

After her beginnings as a filmmaker, since the 1990s Cerith Wyn Evans has devoted herself to the creation of sculptures, site-specific and perfomative interventions that are characterized by the use of ephemeral elements and materials such as light and sound, and by the centrality of the temporal dimension in the enjoyment of the work. The artist’s research focuses on perception, the potential of language and communication, questioning our notion of reality.

In their elegance and formal balance, Cerith Wyn Evans’ works draw on a complexity of references and quotations (from literature, music, philosophy, photography, poetry, art history, astronomy and science) that are declined into entirely new forms through an articulated process of montage. This is done either through the use of textual materials that, decontextualized, are translated into a luminous language (e.g., in the form of neon lettering, fireworks, or pulsations of light) or by transposing into sculpture the imagery of historical artists, such as Marcel Duchamp, or the repertoire of gestures from Japanese Noh theater, as in the series Neon Forms (after Noh) (2015-2019).

The exhibition project includes a new configuration of Forms in Space...by Light (in Time) (2017), originally conceived for the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain in London, and StarStar/Steer (totransversephoton) (2019), a work specially made for the exhibition, which opens the exhibition by creating a choreography of light and shadow that intermittently invades the space.

Notable international institutions that have presented his solo exhibitions include Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2018); Duveen Galleries, Tate Britain, London, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2017); Museion, Bolzano (2015); Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London (2014); Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (2013); Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin (2012); Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, Kunsthall Bergen (2011); MUSAC, León (2008); Kunsthaus Gratz (2007); ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2006); MIT Visual Arts Centre, Boston (2004); Centre for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan (1998).

His works have, in addition, been included in major group exhibitions, including: 14th Lyon Biennale, Skulptur Projekte, Münster, 57th Venice Biennale (2017); 4th Moscow Biennale (2011); Aichi Triennale, Nagoya (2010); 12th Venice Architecture Biennale (2010); 9th Istanbul Biennale (2005); Documenta 11, Kassel (2002). In 2003 Cerith Wyn Evans represented Wales at the Venice Biennale and participated in "Utopia Station." In 2018 he was awarded theHepworth Prize for Sculpture.

For all information you can visit the official website of Pirelli HangarBicocca.

Milan, Cerith Wyn Evans stars at Pirelli HangarBicocca with her largest exhibition in Italy

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