The S|2 gallery in London, which is part of, but across the road from, Sotheby’s main auction house, curates a programme of unusual and often relatively-unknown modern artists with the best exhibitions showing two different artists side by side who compliment and/or contrast with each other through the two floors of galleries in the modern building […]
It’s the week in London when the three main auction houses have sales of a wide range of 20th century and contemporary art. While it is impossible to be comprehensive – I did not spot any work by Cuban artist Wilfredo Lam for example – the three auction houses do provide an outstanding exhibition between […]
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 […]
There has been a feast of German art in London this year. In the spring, three exhibitions – at the British Museum, the Gagosian and the Royal Academy – illustrated different facets of one of Germany’s most famous living artists, Georg Baselitz. This autumn, there are major retrospective exhibitions on Anselm Kiefer and Sigmar Poke […]
"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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