exhibition

Fade In/ Fade Out

Cerith Wyn Evans

15.Oct.08 - 29.Nov.08
Mon-Sat 11-6
£ FREE

Bloomberg Space
50 Finsbury Square
London EC2A 1HD
020 7330 7959
gallery@bloomberg.net
www.bloomberg.com
Tube Moorgate, Liverpool Street, City / Barbican

Kris Martin’s ‘departure board’ (Mandi III, 2003) without its crucial element becomes an abstract animated object. The announcements have been removed, or were never fed into the mechanism, yet the sound made by its revolving letter tags creates a mesmerising whisper.

Cerith Wyn Evans' luxurious Italian Murano glass chandelier (Astrophotography..., 2006) holds its information in a different way - its flickering light evoking a sense of the uncanny. This light, being a coded message, releases its meaning into the atmosphere of the building and, as with the sound in Martin’s piece, this creates a kind of subliminal echo. The chandelier will provide a totally contradictory shift in response to the architecture - a myriad of enchanting colours suspended in the centre of a towering modernist atrium.

Philippe Decrauzat’s expansive wall drawing is both an opening up and a closing down, its complicated relation to light and dark echoing the gradual process of attack and decay in audio terms. He draws, with black on white across space, what initially appears to be a simple geometric pattern, but which in fact holds other layers of subliminal information.

Phillipe Parreno’s punctuating, questioning, white ‘cartoon’ speech bubble balloons are somehow familiar images, but their installation as a dense ceiling height cluster transforms them into a single element. As they jostle, waiting for their message to come to them, they occupy a space between announcement and silence.