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Cerith Wyn Evans
Cerith Wyn Evans
Firework Text (Pasolini), 1999
Courtesy The Artist and White Cube, London
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Cerith Wyn Evans approaches knowledge like a magpie, borrowing
from authors of the past to invigorate the viewer's perceptions of the
present. Though comprising few elements, his work is decadent
and intense, both with its use of references as well as in its magical
and dramatic effect.
In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni is a reworking of an earlier
piece, where he uses his favored medium, light transmitted from
neon tubes, to spell out a classical Latin palindrome which translates
as 'We go round and round in the night and we are consumed by fire'.
Cerith Wyn Evans
In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni 2006
Neon
Courtesy the artist and Jay Jopling / White Cube (London)
Installation View © Tate 2006
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Biography
Born in 1958 in Llanelli, Wales
1984–1987 Royal College of Art, London
1980–1983 St Martins School of Art, London
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2005
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Once a Noun, Now a Verb … , Galerie Neu, Berlin 299792458m/s, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna
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2004
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Thoughts unsaid, not forgotten …, MIT Visual Arts Centre, Boston, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
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2003
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Look at that picture …How does it appear to you now? Does it seem to be Persisting?, White Cube, London
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2000
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Art Now, Tate Britain, London
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1998
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Centre for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushi, Japan
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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2005
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The Vanity of Allegory, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
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2004
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Modus Operandi, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
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2003
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Further: Artists from Wales and Utopia Station: Dreams and Conflicts – The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th International Venice Biennale
Adorno, Kunstverein Frankfurt
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Lives and works in London
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