At the Center Pompidou-Metz, the ballet of light by Cerith Wyn Evans

There are two ways of approaching the works of Cerith Wyn Evans (born in 1958). The artist says he did not want to design a “conventional exhibition” for the Center Pompidou-Metz but rather a « promenade ». The first is therefore indeed that of a stroll, of a spontaneous approach to the works. The latter lend themselves willingly, with their bursts of light, their sculptural boldness, their impressive monumentality. There is, in all of them, an immediate seduction, which keeps us for a while from going to the cartel to find out more.

In reality – as we learn by reading the comments of the exhibition curator Zoe Stillpass – each line, each curve, each material is the fruit of a suite of choices and intellectual references. Among which, we will find, in bulk, the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the precise gestures of nō theater, the Belgian visual artist Marcel Broodthaers… “It is of no importance for me to express what I see or what I feel », explains the artist. Came from experimental cinema and arrived at art early 1990sCerith Wyn Evans does not actually stick to a sensual or emotional representation of the world, but develops “thought images”supports the commissioner.