All Review articles – Page 67
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ReviewPit Kroke: Sculptural Architecture - Architectonic Sculpture – until June 29
Pit Kroke’s small-scale sculptures are functionless architectural games – objects in their own right rather than scale models of buildings; instead they constitute an idealized image of a sculptural architecture, forming imaginary connections between the two media.
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ReviewThe House That Herman Built: Jackie Sumell and Herman Wallace - until July 5
What kind of house does a man who has lived in a 6' x 9' prison cell for over 35 years dream of? Not a question many of us could answer; but one that became the starting point for an extraordinary collaborative project between American artist and activist, Jackie Sumell ...
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ReviewLoris Gréaud:Cellar Door (Once is Always Twice)- until June 22
French artist Loris Gréaud’s first UK solo exhibition consists of three almost identical rooms, each drawing on his own interweaving interests in art, architecture and music.
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ReviewRoyal Academy of Arts: Summer Exhibition 2008 – until August 17
Now in its 240th year, the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition 2008, the world’s largest open-submission contemporary art exhibition; continues the tradition of displaying a wide range of recent work by both established and emerging artists in all forms of media including: painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and architecture.
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ReviewRaw: New Brazilian Architecture- until July 18
Curated by the London-based Brazilian architect Ricardo de Ostos and part of the London Festival of Architecture; Raw focuses on the emerging talents in Brazilian architecture- displaying recent projects shown alongside works by more established architects.
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ReviewRoger Hilton: until September 22
This will be the only showing of this major exhibition of the oil paintings of Roger Hilton (1911-1975); widely thought to be one of the best and most adventurous painters of his generation.
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ReviewRichard Woods just can’t help it
Artist Richard Woods, whose first solo UK show opens next month, tells Liz Bury why he delights in the home-made
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ReviewCityscapes on display in Liverpool
Liverpool’s Walker Gallery is hosting an exhibition of artist Ben Johnson’s iconic cityscape paintings.
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ReviewReview: Psycho Buildings - Artists & Architecture
BD reviews the brilliant new exhibition Psycho Buildings: Artists Take on Architecture, which opens this Wednesday to mark the Hayward’s 40th anniversary.
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ReviewDesigners’ Euro-vision
Thomas Muirhead is impressed by a new book exploring the issues of architecture and urbanism in the expanded European Union
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ReviewLiving in the city squeeze
Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa study and celebrate the art of designing imaginative homes for tight urban sites.
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ReviewClaire Barclay: Shifting Ground- until June 29
Camden Arts Centre presents a new sculptural installation by Glasgow based artist Claire Barclay. Partly inspired by the physical nature of the gallery, her new work responds to the architectural features, the light and context of Camden Arts Centre as a place for the production and reception of fine art ...
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ReviewProspects and Interiors: Recent Acquisitions of Sculptors’ Drawings- until August 24
A closer look at amongst other work; the perspective drawings of imagined and real, architectural interiors by leading contemporary sculptors. Featured in the collection are their representations of interior space, both physical and mental with many tackling the difficult task of finding a way to represent space, as matter.
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ReviewHotel Elephant: Reuben Powell- until December 24
Enjoying a place in the sun as one of the London Festival of Architecture’s festival hubs this year; Reuben Powell, artist in residence at the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, has been busily charting the £1.5 billion regeneration of the rapidly changing area- of which he has himself been a ...
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ReviewIntervention/Decoration - until June 21
Drawing on the rich social and architectural fabric of the historic South West town of Frome; artists including Cornelia Parker and Richard Woods impose new structures and artwork on radically different spaces. These range from established galleries to neglected buildings; with the aim of exploring how artists use decoration ...
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ReviewUrban Encounters: Changing Spaces- until June 21
Changing Spaces brings together five photographers whose work addresses the changing nature of urban space. The exhibition reflects on a range of visual styles, narratives and research methodologies drawing on documentary, fine art and landscape practices, in order to investigate how urban space is constructed through the perceptions, intuitions ...
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ReviewSome Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo: Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa - until October 26
London and Tokyo face similar urban development issues, due to their scale, extensive built environment, and existing efforts to grow the city from within; but they occupy cultural contexts and require different and distinct, problem-solving solutions.
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ReviewShow RCA Two: June 25 to July 5
Exhibition by graduating students from the post-graduate courses of Architecture, Animation, Communications, Design, Vehicle Design, Fashion and Textiles at the Royal College of Art. Architecture students will also be taking part in events for London Architecture Festival along Exhibition Road in South Kensington.
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ReviewConstructed: 40 Years of the UEA Collection- until December 14
A major exhibition of the UEA Collection of Abstract and Constructivist Art, Architecture and Design will open at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts this July. Exhibits include architectural models of Stephen Gilbert's House Model 'Neovision' (1955) and a reconstruction of the Vesnin Brothers Pravda Tower, as well as furniture, ...
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Frome, a market town in Somerset, is hosting work by seven artists as part of commissioning agency Foreground’s Intervention/ Decoration project.