T Magazine: Beauty and the Beasts
The London Zoo hosts a new installation by the unruly artist Cerith Wyn Evans.
Illustration by Konstantin Kakanias
Though he has worked with such eccentrics as Morrissey and Genesis P-Orridge, Cerith Wyn Evans’s latest project involves even wilder collaborators. For his offsite contribution to this year’s Frieze Art Fair in London, the revered Welsh conceptual artist will take over the Snowdon Aviary in the city’s 186-year-old zoo — “a complicated and strange place,” he says. Calling to mind works by the Italian artist Gino De Dominicis (who, in the ’70s, paired actors with live animals in a tableau of the zodiac) and the Yugoslav artist Braco Dimitrijevic (who planted works of art throughout the Paris zoo in 1998), the installation is meant to disrupt the hierarchy between humans and animals, the observers and the observed. Details are still scarce, but Wyn Evans says the work will include neon text and a musical performance for humans and birds alike. And for those hesitant to walk from the nearby fair, Wyn Evans shrugs: “You’re just exchanging one set of cages for another.” From Oct. 15 to 18, friezelondon .com
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The London Zoo hosts a new installation by the unruly artist Cerith Wyn Evans.
Illustration by Konstantin Kakanias
Though he has worked with such eccentrics as Morrissey and Genesis P-Orridge, Cerith Wyn Evans’s latest project involves even wilder collaborators. For his offsite contribution to this year’s Frieze Art Fair in London, the revered Welsh conceptual artist will take over the Snowdon Aviary in the city’s 186-year-old zoo — “a complicated and strange place,” he says. Calling to mind works by the Italian artist Gino De Dominicis (who, in the ’70s, paired actors with live animals in a tableau of the zodiac) and the Yugoslav artist Braco Dimitrijevic (who planted works of art throughout the Paris zoo in 1998), the installation is meant to disrupt the hierarchy between humans and animals, the observers and the observed. Details are still scarce, but Wyn Evans says the work will include neon text and a musical performance for humans and birds alike. And for those hesitant to walk from the nearby fair, Wyn Evans shrugs: “You’re just exchanging one set of cages for another.” From Oct. 15 to 18, friezelondon .com
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