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Glow-getter: Cerith Wyn Evans’ Tate Britain installation is a neon knock-out Read more at http://www.wallpaper.com/art/neon-knock-out-cerith-wyn-evans-writes-with-light-at-tate-britain#cJhxH2wPUWmxJp6Y.99

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Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans is more familiar than most with London’s Tate Britain. He strolled its iconic galleries as a guard in the late seventies, while studying at Central St Martins. With a beautiful sense of symmetry, he has returned 40 years later, as a much celebrated artist. Wyn Evans’ new masterwork, Forms in […]

Cerith Wyn Evans: Deciphering the Code

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Withth two kilometres’ worth of white neon tubing arranged in dazzling arrays of lines and curves high above the Duveen Galleries’ polished floors, Forms in Space… by Light (in Time), Cerith Wyn Evans’s installation for this year’s Tate Britain Commission (of which Sotheby’s is a sponsor) cannot be mistaken for another artist’s work. Born in […]

Cerith Wyn Evans: Forms in Space … by Light (in Time) review – an optical trapeze act

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The Welsh artist unveils 2km of neon suspended in mid-air – and it’s an adventure playground for the eyes. It all begins with a white neon O, hanging above our heads like the shape the lips make before an exclamation. Or a spyglass aimed at the chaos beyond.  Suspended partway down the long Duveen Gallery […]

Phyllida Barlow: Dock, Tate Britain

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A joyous celebration of ad hoc creativity fills the Duveen Galleries. The revamping of Tate Britain has produced such an atmosphere of understated elegance that one hardly dares breathe for fear of displacing a particle of dust. An air of suffocating sterility has seeped into the displays, which are so tastefully arranged that even the […]