Featuring Brian Eno’s 2021 work Filopendula.
A new exhibition at the Paul Stolper Gallery pairs Brian Eno’s music with the light works of the late Dan Flavin.
Looking at sound sculpture in relation to lighting and space, the exhibition, titled Brian Eno/Dan Flavin, features Eno’s 2021 piece Filopendula–a set of speakers arranged to look like flowers in a vase.
Eno’s new light box series Soft Sharp/Sharp Soft is also on display alongside a series of works from Flavin–Untitled (to Barbara Nüsse), 1971, Untitled (for Ad Reinhardt) 2e, 1990, and Untitled (for Eric Zetterquist) 1, 1990.
“I’ve always loved loudspeakers, just as things. Before I joined Roxy Music and when I was in the band in the beginning I used to buy up old loudspeakers and make new cabinets out of them. I loved seeing how I could change the sound by making the cabinet a different shape,” said Eno in conversation with Stolper.
“I thought why don’t we make speakers like a little event, they’re like flowers. And the sound in ‘Filopendula’ like early versions I made is very distant”.
The Brian Eno/Dan Flavin exhibition runs at 31 Museum Street, London until August 25.
