One of the highlights of Blain Southern’s 2017 exhibition challenging viewers to think the unthinkable into the future was Paloma Varga Weisz‘s “Still Life” which left the viewer to use his or her imagination for the future of biomedical science. The artist is now back in London at Sadie Coles in Davies Street, with an […]
The Surrealism art movement with its imaginary worlds and creatures, often created by distorting everyday and illogical objects and scenes, developed in the early 1920’s by artists such as Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali and Max Ernst. Exploring the subconscious, there were feminist accusations that the movement often played to masculine stereotypes; on the other hand […]
A century ago, Giorgio de Chirico painted “The Revolt of the Sage” – a ‘metaphysical’ work in which a collection of apparently-unrelated objects were combined together in inconsistent and surreal perspectives to create a new world, a world in which “time did not exist”. At Blain|Southern in London, Simon Moretti and Craig Burnett have curated […]
"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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