January 2007
Cerith Wyn Evans
Though Olafur Eliasson’s soaring chromographs have left the walls, the dark caverns of the Kunstbau are once again lit with artistic inspiration. The Städtische Galerie of the Lenbachhaus presents “in which something happens all over again for the very first time,” by Cerith Wyn Evans. The British artist got his start making revolutionary short films in the London underground of the late 1970s, but has worked with a variety of media in the interim. His Munich piece uses lights to explore semiotics, language, and legibility. Excerpts from a wide variety of texts are translated into Morse Code and projected by blinking lights onto a flat screen. This exhibition is the “dark” counterpart to a “light” exhibition that was hosted by the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris last summer. It will run at the Lenbachhaus Kunstbau until February 25.
