Colour and geometry are the hallmarks of many of London’s exhibitions with Gary Card’s magical mystery world at Phillips and Borna Sammak’s view of urban life at Sadie Coles HQ. Nearby in Brooks Mews at the back of Claridge’s Hotel, continuing a London focus on Latin Art which has included Oscar Murillo at David […]
By a happy coincidence, two galleries facing each other are, between them, showing the work of four different modern and contemporary artists from Spain and Latin America: Marto Marce, Luis Romero, Jesus Guerrero and Vik Muniz. Brazilian artist Vik Muniz’s bold, colourful abstract geometric ‘Real Pictures’ at Ben Brown Fine Arts, contrast with the more […]
Borders have taken on a stronger political focus in the past few years. If you look at maps of Europe over the past few centuries, borders have been moving all over the place as countries and kingdoms have risen and fallen; the same is true in the UK; Scotland has been in at some times […]
Two dancers dressed in black, with one white spotlight following them on the empty stage. Stripped of elaboration, the performance focusses on their body movements, how the dancers flow, defy gravity and interplay with each other, reinforced by the shadows created from the white light. Every movement is important; each flexing of a muscle, each twitch […]
Strong geometric images in his paintings reflect Venezuelan artist Cipriano Martinez’s initial training as a civil engineer and his experience of working in his uncle’s print shop in Caracas. They depict the conflicting urban landscape of cities where engineers and architects seek to impose a rigorous order but the overall effect is a chaotic assembly […]
The exhibition title “June: A Painting Show” at Sadie Coles HQ in London cleverly conceals the real subject, which is how contemporary artists from around the world portray people at work, at play, in threatening environments or in provocative situations, in a wide variety of colourful, geometric and imaginary settings, some quite surreal and some […]
It has been slow progress, but modern and contemporary Latin American art has started to make an impact in London. There have been solo shows by well-known artists such as the Mexican Gabriel Orozco at the Serpentine Gallery in 2004, Tate Modern in 2011 and also in the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh in 2013. In […]
"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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