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Cerith Wyn Evans Once a Noun, Now a Verb 2005 chandelier (Luce Italia), flat-screen monitor, Morse code unit, computer approximately: 250 x 150 x 150 cm (98 3/8 x 59 x 59 in) This work is unique and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Provenance Neu Gallery, Berlin Acquired from the above by the present owner Exhibited Berlin, Galerie Neu, Cerith Wyn Evans Once a Noun, Now a Verb, May–July 2005 Mönchengladbach, Museum Abteiberg, Strange I’ve seen that face Before, 7 May–17 Sept 2006 Literature Strange I’ve seen that face Before, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, 2006, p. 23 Octavio Zaya, ed., …visibleinvisible, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León,2008, p. 67 Catalogue Essay “A work has to have a resonance so that it can move on different levels.” (Cerith Wyn Evans ‘Frieze talks to Cerith Wyn Evans’, Frieze, issue 71, November–December 2002) The bulbs of the chandelier work Once a Noun, Now a Verb from 2005 blink out words and sentences in Morse code, and the resulting cryptic messages are transcribed onto a nearby monitor. This particular work is the largest and most recent of Wyn Evans’s ‘Chandelier’ series and it has appeared in exhibitions around the world. William Stover, curator at the MFA Boston where these works have been exhibited and where there is one in the collection, has described the work as “absolutely beautiful at first; then if you delve into his sources, you realize it is also intellectually brilliant” (in M. Carlock, ‘Words Imagined: Cerith Wyn Evans’, Sculpture, vol. 24 no. 5, June 2005). Read More