Big Bang II

1986

installation, hologram, land art, Light and Music

Collection(s):

Musée-du-Bas-St-Laurent, QC

Exposition(s):

New-York, Montréal, Reims, Munich, Musée-du-Bas-St-Laurent

Block of sidereal matter that explodes on Earh. A monumental immersive and multimedia artwork evolving in time and space. Holosculpture.

With the collaboration of Marcelle Deschênes, Robert Normandeau and Martin Pelletier.

June 14th, 1987. La Presse, Montreal
Dyens’s Big Bang is in motion through 360 degrees. It moves in both space and time. It can be described as a performance without actors, or better still, as a performance where the spectator becomes the actor.

June 13th, 1987. Le Journal de Montréal, Montreal
In this other-worldly landscape the spectators' eyes and imagination are free to wander as the environment around him evolves into a cathedral of light.

1988. Hervé Fischer. Montreal
The holosculptures are hybrid and dynamic computer-controlled installations which unfold in time and space, integrating sculpture, holograms, fiber optics, music and lighting into a dramatic whole. Dyens's works reveal the earthy metaphysics of primal materials, of the genesis of the universe. His creations reconcile extreme opposites in an integrative vision, evoking life and death. …his holosculptures will be remembered by the world of electronic art as a fundamental step in the maturation of this art form. Dyens’s works are deeply moving and, for the first time in the electronic art scene, suggest more than a mere technical innovation. His means of expression are innovative and altogether appropriate to his subject. His work is a hybrid, existing at equal distance from theatre, sculpture, installation and concert. His dramatic and enveloping spaces place the spectator at the epicenter of the work.

November 1988. Alternative Museum. New York. David Donihue in catalogue of Dyens's exhibition. Standing in the circle of stones, it’s hard to avoid the feeling of having fallen from grace… But there is still a sense of redemption. With the optimism of an individual who has felt and conquer despair, Dyens refuses to depict a feeling of hopelessness…his work is a manifestation of the human spirit…It provides ways of looking at the present and an echo of the future. Beyond the spectacle it presents, it forms a modern stage where we can contemplate the roles we play in a universal drama.