Tuesday, 11 January 2011

Inverse Reverse Perverse

I Encountered the name Cerith Wyn Evans whilst researching another artist today, and remembered that he was the creator of this interesting scultpure I'd seen at the Tate Britain the other week. It was part of a display of art from 1960-2000 and included Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas, among other big names in modern art. Speaking of Sarah Lucas, has anyone seen the Black and White Bunny photos? This is them, respectively 1, 2 and 3. I had to spread these photos, this sculpture is just so laughably great...

                                                       Sarah Lucas Black and White Bunny # 1 1997
 

Sarah Lucas Black and White Bunny # 3 1997

Got a bit sidetracked there, but anyway what I wanted to post was these photos and  videos I took of the sculpture by Evans - they're below. I don't think Evans is a particularly renowned artist, but I like the idea of this piece...I like how it's interactive - as all mirrors are. It's called Inverse Reverse Perverse, was made in 1996, and is this round, reflective, concave surface which looks like this hung up on the wall:



That's me taking the picture - reflected in the top right hand corner of the sculpture. I stopped styudying any scientific subjects in year 9 so I have no idea how to describe the distorted type of reflections in this surface, but it was just eye-catching how the reflections swirled and whizzed as you moved around the sculpture. So, I was doing this, and a lightbulb goes on in my head: this can be captured on film ;) As I have proved below.

                                        

Wow, how disappointing...the decent videos won't upload so I've had to settle for this annoying, short one. Oh well. And then of course, me in the mirror-sculpture.

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