Was it a happy accidental coincidence or was it a plan that there should be exhibitions by the Hungarian artist Dora Maurer (born 1937) at Tate Modern and, a 15 or 20 minute walk away, at the White Cube in Bermondsey? Art aficionados needed to start at the retrospective at Tate Modern and then continued to White Cube to view three geometric mathematical series of works created over the last 30 years – ‘Overlappings’, ‘Quod Libet’ and ‘IXEK’, but when you look at them, you wonder if they were by the same artist, the white works created with informal rectangular overlapping planes being so different to the precise flowing curving coloured geometries that fly off the wall, and also not shown at the exhibition in Tate Modern. The common link is mathematics, geometry and proportion.
Ian Caldwell
"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