Perhaps because he is Canadian, photographer Jeff Wall seems to enjoy showing vast natural spaces, with just a few human figures, sometimes in surreal settings such as olive harvest workers sleeping out in the open under the blue skies near a prison where thousands sleep enclosed in cells and surveyors laying out the boundary in […]
Eight sets of smokey mirrored glass panels sit beneath the square lighting grid of the gallery. Set on a grey carpet to give the impression that they are floating, the 6ft square sheets of glass are not joined but their free-standing arrangement gives the impression of cubes, with multiple reflections of visitors bouncing from cube […]
The White Cube aesthetic of gallery design, with white walls, white lighting and highly polished concrete floor comes alive when the art is reflected in the floor, creating a further dimension to the experience for the viewer, like watching lights playing in a dark pond of water or floodlit buildings along the River Thames, the […]
The American artist and sculptor Larry Bell (born 1939) is a leading member of the Californian “Light and Space” movement, creating work which explores the relationship between light and colour, solidity and translucency and art and the viewer through the sculptural and reflective properties of his compositions. ‘2D-3D: Glass & Vapor’ is Bell’s fourth solo […]
At the Cini Foundation in Venice in 2013, Marc Quinn exhibited five huge sea shells from his series “The Archaeology of Art” which, set against water, looked as if they had been washed ashore. At the White Cube Gallery in Bermondsey, London, the highly polished floors of the gallery take on the reflective character of […]
At PACE Burlington Gardens in London, the Israeli artist Michael Rovner is showing her work “Panorama”. Many artists experiment with video work and it achieves success through innovation, shock or a new slant on life; Rovner succeeds because her work is a 21st century interpretation of painting or drawing, they are complex but simple and […]
Adding to the display of Latin American art in London at the Lloyds Club, the White Cube Gallery in St James has the first exhibition in London by the Argentinian artist Christian Roso. Christian was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1982 and now lives and works in Vienna and Los Angeles. His clean restrained […]
A good piece of planning by the White Cube Gallery, sees a new installation “399 Days” by Rachel Kneebone, the British sculptor, providing an excellent contrast to the parallel exhibition by Gilbert & George which fills the rest of the Gallery. In the central room of the gallery is just one sculpture – a white […]
"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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