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Sinta Tantra: Your Private Sky. Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London

“Your sky may be surfaced inside with sections of global map, with Zenith of sky, and oriented accurately to the north…
Sun clock in day
 Star clock in night.”  Buckminster Fuller, manuscript for Your Private Sky, 1948 Sinta Tantra’s exhibition Your Private Sky at Kristin Hjellegjerde London, draws inspiration from the life and work of the American … Continue reading

Michael Pinsky – Pollution Pods

Pollution Pods are a series of five interconnected geodesic domes which contain carefully mixed recipes emulating the relative presence of ozone, particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide, which recreate the pollution from London, Beijing, São Paulo, New Delhi and Tautra in Norway. Forming a ring in the centre of the Somerset House … Continue reading

Alberto Burri – Cretto di Burri, Sicily – Architecture, Sculpture, Space

Alberto Burri, 1915-1995, is recognised as a central figure working in Arte Povera, concerned with the integrity of poor and unorthodox industrial materials such as jute sacking, metal, plastic, tar, sand, glue and fire. He also combined architecture, sculpture and space in the  creation of one of the largest landscape artworks in Europe. The Cretto di Burri … Continue reading

Roy Adzak, architect of the inversion

To spot Roy Adzak’s tomb in Montparnasse cemetery, in Paris, is to look for the confusing marks of the past, epitomised by a small bronze pyramid in which is cut on each face the silhouette of a disproportionately large man, as if human and godly orders had been inverted. Adzak (1927-1987, born Roy Wright), a … Continue reading

EDIFICE, COMPLEX, VISIONARY, STRUCTURE, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. 6 January – 3 February 2018

EDIFICE, COMPLEX, VISIONARY, STRUCTURE, at the Sean Kelly Gallery, New York is a group exhibition featuring gallery artists who engage with the construct of architecture in their practices in a variety of ways. Their work explores how our concept of architecture describes physical structures, references the design of organic and man-made systems, and explains plastic concepts. The … Continue reading