Digital and video art filled the elegant neoclassical rooms of the 18th century Dover House with Harun Farocki’s video and digital art installations shown alongside the work of Hito Steyerl, the two reflecting on the wider world, a world beyond the comfort of Mayfair, London and the United Kingdom where war and peace exist side […]
You walk up the elegant street in Mayfair in London, full of very expensive fashion houses, and enter through the doorway of a well-proportioned historic 18th century townhouse into a long cool classical entrance hall. You then tentatively push open the doors of the front room at the side and are transported into another world […]
The Austrian Pavilion for the Biennale in Venice was designed by Josef Hoffman for the Giardini in the 1930′s on a commanding and elevated site, in part for impact but also perhaps being aware of the threat (even then) of potential flooding, there having been serious floods in November 1927 and December 1933. This gallery […]
It is almost the last painting you find as you wander through the fine classical interiors of the 18th century former townhouse; – upstairs in the front room overlooking Dover Street in Mayfair you find a painting of a gallery within a gallery - Marcin Maciejowski’s painting of this very room during the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac‘s […]
Continuing the Latin American theme that has been running in several exhibitions in London this summer, Venezuelan artist Alvaro Barrington (born Caracas in and now living in New York) has been at the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Mayfair, but with a twist – not one of his own paintings was on show. Alvaro and Julia […]
The 18th and the 21st centuries come together at the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in London with the Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury (born 1961) and the Austrian/German artist Gerwald Rockenschaub (born 1952). The 18th century architecture of the former home of the Bishops of Ely with its moulded plaster, classical doorways, marble hallway and late flowing staircase is […]
In 1980, Georg Baselitz was asked to represent Germany at the Venice Biennale, along with Anselm Kiefer. In doing so, he started to explore sculpture in addition to his painted works. Roughly-hewn timber, influenced by German folk art and native African carvings marked a new departure and no review of his work of the 1980’s […]
You’ve missed it, but if you were worried about Brexit and the world in general, there was an opportunity to buy a Swiss passport at 37 Dover Street in London for two days, the 5th and 6th of October, for the bargain price of 20 euros (cash, and no pounds accepted). Tom Sachs argues that […]
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Dover Street was the height of London society. Many famous people lived in the Georgian houses including the architect John Nash, the composer Frederick Chopin and the publisher Edward Moxton, while guests in the hotels and clubs included Alexander Graham Bell, Napoleon III, Theodore Roosevelt, Rudyard Kipling and Agatha […]
Within the elegant 18th century architecture of the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Mayfair something is amiss. Downstairs in a room with glimpses out to Berkeley Street, lightbulbs are strewn across the floor, while upstairs in another room with shadowy views of Dover Street, the historic walls are covered in bright yellow wallpaper, each brick of […]
"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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