German artist Isa Genzken’s exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in 2014 demonstrated the breadth and variety of her work including large scale installations. In the late 80s and early 90s, she was experimenting with painting including the series Basic Research (1989-1991) currently on show in the first floor galleries at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in […]
Imagine you found an old disused house with thirty two boxes scattered around the different rooms containing apparently-meaningless objects which had been collected by the previous occupant. What would you do – call the local refuse collection team, take the boxes to the local charity shop, or keep and care for them? If you are an artist or a […]
“She Came to Stay” is a novel published by French author Simone de Beauvoir in 1943 as a fictional account of her and Jean-Paul Sartre‘s relationship with Olga and Wanda Kosakiewicz. Set in Paris on the eve of and during the Second World War, the novel explores many existentialist concepts such as freedom, angst and the other. Rook and […]
This year’s programme “Sculpture in the City” provides city workers and visitors with the opportunity to see 14 sculptures set against the background of the historic and modern buildings of the City, from St. Botolph without Bishopsgate to the north to Leadenhall Market in the south. 13 of the artworks have been installed; the 14th will […]
The Lightbox has been running the Young Curators programme since 2006 for young people aged 13 to 19 who are interested in art and would like to learn more about how museums and galleries work, perhaps considering a future career in the arts. The Young Curators who participated this year had four sessions with artist Stuart Simler to […]
In 2011, The Lightbox in Woking held a successful exhibition on British Pop Art. It has now gone further with its new exhibition that looks at international Pop Art in American and Europe. Yet again, the Lightbox has achieved an exhibition of international quality. Curator Michael Regan has brought together works by a many well-known […]
British artist Justin Hibbs (born 1971) in his exhibition “Alias_Re_Covered” uses painting, objects, drawing, screens, folded sculptures and architectural forms to explore his ideas of space and how it flows across, and connects with, a range of different materials, and shapes, old and new, and also how sound can enrich the experience, with a soundtrack specially produced […]
Never has copper wire been used so imaginatively. The Wellcome Collection’s new exhibition displays over 100 items by the French-British sculptor and film-maker Alice Anderson, all entirely mummified and transformed in copper. The gallery staircase, a bottle of coke, windows frames, computer parts, ropes and a plethora of other objects, wrapped in copper wire, glisten […]
The American artist Roni Horn (born 1955) has two exhibitions this summer, “Butterfly to Oblivion” at the 2015 Foundation Vincent van Gogh in Arles, France and “Butterfly Doubt” at Hauser & Wirth in London, England. Horn is an American sculptor, installation artist, draughtsman, photographer and writer. She studied at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence […]
Fitrovia in London has a new and different piece of architecture. Now able to be seen in its finished state, the unique undulating façade designed by Ian Ritchie Architects announces the arrival of the new Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London (UCL), a partnership between the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and the Wellcome Trust to establish […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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