FRED TSCHIDA: CIRCLESPHERE Teaser

Описание: CIRCLESPHERE is the first exhibition in Europe by American pioneer of neon art, Fred Tschida (b.1949).

It also celebrates the tenth anniversary of Neon Workshops, founded in Wakefield by artist Richard William Wheater (b. 1978) in 2010. Ten years earlier, Wheater was a student of Tschida’s in New York, where the American introduced him to the artistic possibilities of neon, something that catalysed Wheater’s life-long commitment to the alchemical properties of this alluring and technically demanding material.

CIRCLESPHERE brings Tschida and Wheater together for the first time as transatlantic collaborators, some 20 years after their first encounter, and as fellow artists united by their desire to push at the boundaries of neon as an art form.

The Art House is committed to supporting artists to explore, stretch and take risks in order to discover new things about themselves and their creative practice. We are so pleased to have enabled Richard Wheater to do just that by curating this show as a tribute to his mentor, Fred Tschida, who like The Art House, is all about the process of creativity.

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Located across two venues:

The Art House
CIRCLESPHERE includes six gas-filled glass illuminated sculptures, revolving on free-standing wooden frames, each between 2.1m and 2.8m tall. The pieces, entitled ‘Frederick Carder Vase Forms’ will be displayed across two floors at The Art House, alongside work from Tschida’s former student turned collaborator, Richard William Wheater.

7A
The Frederick Carder Vase Forms will be accompanied by SPHERE, a huge rotating neon circle, which will feature at 7A, Neon Workshops’ project space, filling the 3000 sq. ft warehouse.

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Check out the full events programme for CIRCLESPHERE:
https://the-arthouse.org.uk/exhibitio...

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Film by David Lindsay.
Additional footage by Nick Singleton.
Music by James Wilkie.

The exhibition is a partnership between The Art House and Neon Workshops, supported using public funding by Arts Council England. Additional support from Wakefield Council.