To the outsider, football is a strange sport. While Hank Willis Thomas explored the tribal relationship between football and politics and religion, in quite a benign way, Marcin Dudek’s work is more sinister, as he explores similar relationships, but linked to his own very personal experiences as a teenage member of the Cracovia Football Fan […]
Go to the Louvre and try to see the Mona Lisa and you will find a sea of mobile phones and ipads held up by a hoard of tourists who have walked past stunning – and ignored-masterpieces to reach it. It is therefore not surprising that artists are beginning to reflect on this impact of […]
Two galleries located within minutes of each of other in Mayfair are collaborating on exhibitions by the same artist, American pop-artist Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004). Not only that, but both have opened up new spaces in their galleries, not seen before. Well done, Tom Wesselmann – look what you have achieved. Almine Rech Gallery has moved […]
As the tourists flood into the ground floor of Fortnum and Mason to buy their tea, biscuits or other delicacies as souvenirs of Britain, they should spend a moment and look at the brightly coloured paintings behind the main tilrl, contrasting with the rest of the décor: Scottish artist John Bellamy has invaded Fortnum and […]
Scattered on the grassy lawns adjacent to the formal garden and fountains of Regent’s Park, with the backcloth of John Nash’s elegant regency terraces, a successful initiative of Frieze this summer was the sculpture park where a wide range of strange and wonderful sculpture was on display through the summer by artists including Eduardo Paolozzi, […]
In the centre of Frieze Sculpture 2017 in Regent’s Park was a totem pole made of footballs, one piled carefully one on top of another. Moving from there to a narrow mews in Mayfair, Brook’s Mews, there are more totems, not only footballs, but rugby balls and also cricket bats. American artist Hank Willis Thomas […]
Moving from Christie Mayfair’s exhibition “About the Line” to Christie’s King Street, the preview for this week’s auction on Middle Eastern Modern and Contemporary Sale, reinforces artistry with lines in Mehdi Moutashar’s grid “Zone B 1-8″, Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi’s graphic “Sari Fe Azar” and Monir Farmanfarmaian’s “Heartbeat”. Overall the works show how Middle Eastern art has […]
Human creativity is linked to lines, whether those first markings on a prehistoric pot or a cave wall, the perspective of the columns of the Greek Parthenon, the hieroglyphics of Egypt, the musical scores of Beethoven, the plays of Shakespeare, the distorted shapes in a sketch by Picasso or the optical forms in a painting […]
If it’s October, it must be the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea. Generally more adventurous than its Hampstead cousin, this year there are a number of new galleries from the UK and abroad and a continuation of the trend to use non-traditional materials to create art. Recycled materials are assembled into sculptures of cats, horses, […]
The area around Old Street is the developing Tech-City of London, intertwined with art galleries such as Charlie Smith, Victoria Miro and BEERS London. How appropriate therefore that Italian artist Leonardo Ulian, who combines technology. computing, science and art, should be showing his latest works here. Instead of paint, Ulian uses the everyday components that […]
"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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