Cerith Wyn Evans - Couverture souple

Ault, Julie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0974568813 ISBN 13 : 9780974568812

Editeur : Lukas & Sternberg, 2004

Synopsis

I had to come up with a title, and I thought: 'Oh, God. Where do you begin?' The set of references becomes like an endless chain. In this very Klossowskian way there is this notion of the dematerialisation of the proper noun.--Cerith Wyn Evans

The Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans (*1958) eludes easy categorization: in the mid-eighties, he worked as an assistant to the film director Derek Jarman, making both experimental films and music videos for pop bands such as The Smiths and The Fall; he also was a tutor for six years at the Architectural Association. During the 1990s, he consolidated an international reputation as an artist unafraid to embrace highly complex conceptual issues of communication and perception, with dense textual references invariably spliced with a poetically tongue- in-cheek dandyism, whether the writings of William Blake flashed in Morse code off a disco ball; a homage to Pasolini written in fireworks or the cultivation of hybrid orchids in a Parisian gallery, nourished by the artist's own urine.

"Cerith Wyn Evans" accompanied the artist's solo show at the Frankfurter Kunstverein and provides a comprehensive overview of the artist's body of work.

Contributors
Juliane Rebentisch, Andreas Spiegl, Jan Verwoert, interview by Manfred Hermes

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nicolaus Schafhausen is a curator at the Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism in Munich.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lukas & Sternberg
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: allemand
• ISBN 10: 0974568813
• ISBN 13: 9780974568812
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 170
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible