Review in WHITE CUBE

​White cube

There is an exhibition in White Cube by Wyn Evans.

Huge neon works which are suspended from the ceiling.

It is relating closely to the artist’s earlier sculptures which translated diagrammatic flight paths into neon. This exhibition presents a maze of complex lines that trace the trajectory of alignments, gestures, folds, orientations and footsteps. In my view, these transposing and transforming were not only energies into both material charge and visual form, but also a record.

For this exhibition, Wyn Evans has produced a group of sculptures that question our notions of reality and cognition, perception and subjectivity, forming an exhibition as experiment, with recourse to scores, maps, intervals and diagrams.

I like two art works during this exhibition. One is neon work about eyes, the artist draws inspiration from the mysterious tripartite radial forms of the ‘Oculist Witnesses’ that appear in Marcel Duchamp’s work The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (1915–23). Three vast discs in bright white neon recreate the forms of Duchamp’s original into ‘perversely’ three dimensional and multi-dimensional objects. Suspended from the ceiling at a skewed angle and imposing a foreshortened perspective,

“The Illuminating Gas…(after Oculist Witnesses), 2015, stages the exploration of established and establishing spatio-temporal regimes, creating a break in the surrounding visual field. The forms fold and mesh different figure/ground sensibilities into each other, thereby evoking hitherto unforeseen registers of perception. This idea is relatives to my MA project about the care the person who has eyes problem, especially cataract.

The other art work is about the sound installation art. Interspersed among the neon sculptures are plants placed on turntables that almost imperceptibly rotate at different velocities in different directions. The notion of an otherworldly voice is continued with a large sound sculpture consisting of 19 ‘breathing’ transparent glass flutes. Each flute is connected to installation which is suspended from the ceiling and together they form two ellipses, staggered at different heights, creating radial fan-like arcs in space, again echoing The Illuminating Gas…(after Oculist Witnesses). Mechanically operated, the ​

​flutes emit a mellifluous breath-like sound; an expansive microtonal resonance that reverberates through the exhibition. It was very attractive me, it is a developed thinking way about my project.