Two artists, from two different generations, 40 years and 6000 miles apart, Enrique Brinkmann (b.1938 in Spain) and Verónica Vázquez (born 1970 in Uruguay) but you wouldn’t recognise the space between them, the works complement each other so well. Brinkmann’s work is 3-dimensional, abstract, creating patterns and images from unusual materials such as old nails and […]
Two of the most moving of the works in ‘Materia’ are Girjesh Kumar Singh’s architectural sculptures made of bricks and mortar saved from homes destroyed in conflicts in his hometown of Uttar, Pradesh, reminding us both of the suffering and destruction which sadly still goes on in many parts of the world, but also that, […]
On a wall are shelves of different glass jars and urns, which could be something from a very expensive perfumery in Bond Street. Here they are different, more poignant; each contains the ashes of a books belonging to an imaginary Library of Alessandria, a counterpoint to the Library of Alexander which burnt down in the […]
Inside the glass box is a perfectly-ordered and immaculately-tidy artist’s studio. Outside, in the landscape of a second box, is a world of chaos with a solitary figure smoking a cigarette as he looks over a sea of objects and bodies broken and scattered around him. Order and chaos; creation and apocalypse; – Argentinian […]
Steel which seems to break free of its physical limitations as spirals burst out, twisting and interconnecting with themselves, their forms repeated in shadows dancing on the walls. A heavy material appears lightweight; a solid material appears fluid; an inert material seems to be alive, happy in the modern white gallery environment of Rosenfeld Porcini or in the elaborate […]
A long thin sliver of ground floor and basement, not much wider than a London alley, with windows on three sides facing onto a yard and out to the two adjacent streets. Rathbone Street and Newman Street, north of New Oxford Street in London. Not perhaps the most obvious space for an art gallery, given […]
"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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