2018-20
Existing across painting, digital render & finally as cast bronze, the Entanglement series is Lanyon’s first major work to connect across multiple states of matter, concept and mediums. Appearing as a knot forming itself in space, Entanglement first emerged as an element of a painting in 2018, from a series of drawings that explored the painted knot as a symbol signifying emotional experience; we digitally extracted the information from the painting and began to re-visit the artwork as a digital sculpture.
Through the support of London Bronze Casting, a workshop at the forefront of cutting-edge casting techniques, we were able to produce the UK’s first fully 3D printed, sand cast sculpture. Cast in bronze, sitting on worktop steel and weathered concrete, interior emotional weight is brought into the world as a flowing knot of rope or guts, fleshy, raw metal that exposes the rainbow weld marks of its own making. Off-human hands with mirror-polished fingernails that distort an observer’s reflection, once hand-drawn and now physically tangible, delicately form a loop in a monument to tying ourselves in knots.
The piece is titled intentionally to indicate the various interpretations and understandings of entanglement - emotional, physical, material and via quantum theory, where entangled particles remain connected so that actions performed on one affect the other, even when separated by great distances. This simultaneous interconnectedness and distance that defines the experience of being human, and our efforts to understand and communicate it, is key to this piece in both concept and material.
2019
Bronze, steel, concrete
192 x 52 x 46 cm
Installation view
The London Bronze Collection
Squire & Partners, London
May 1 – 13, 2019