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Ancient Reliefs As Form And Forum For Contemporary Art
I visited the British Museum to look at famous examples of historical reliefs and recollect my thoughts. I hoped that a trip down `history` lane would shake things up and help me start afresh with my investigation into reliefs; that this trip would ground my hopeless interest in reliefs and provide me with a perspective to consolidate and validate my ideas on the matter.I knew I had to be around some of the `original` reliefs as if their presence would dictate the answers I was in search of.I was also looking for something personal; a link to my homeland, Turkey, a `local` primer, if you will, that would allow all to make sense. [Click on the title to read more...] |
| Slade School of Fine Art Dissertation - 11.05.2007 |
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Supermodern With Moma
"[...] There is very often less perfection in works composed of several portions, and carried out by the hands of various masters, than in those on which one individual alone has worked. Thus we see that buildings planned and carried out by one architect alone are usually more beautiful and better proportioned than those which many have tried to put in order and improve, making use of old walls which were built with other ends in view." [Click on the title to read more...] |
| Bartlett School of Architecture, Term Paper - 01.04.2006 |
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Paterson`s Riddle
Toby Paterson, the winner of the Beck`s Futures 2002, continues to walk the fine line between architecture and art in his latest work After the Rain commissioned by the Barbicanand exhibited at The Curve Gallery[1].For this new commission, Paterson has responded to the distinctive architecture of The Curve Gallery bringing together large-scale wall paintings, sculptural assemblages and paintings on Perspex in a complex and daringly ambiguous installation.Inspired by his ongoing interest in urban landscapes, After the Rain emerges from Paterson`s current attraction to a trio of cities extensively damaged during the Second World War - Coventry, Rotterdam and Hamburg. Along the tradition of his previous work, Paterson utilizes an inventive language of architectural drawing techniques, city topographies and isolated fragments of buildings, playing on the shift between abstraction and representation together with the manipulation of scale. [Click on the title to read more...] |
| Slade School of Fine Art, Term Paper - April 24, 2005 |
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Landscapes of Thorpe and Hadid
David Thorpe`s recent installation titled The Colonist at Tate Britian and the exhibition of Zaha Hadid`s `paintings` at the Gilbert Collection, Sommerset House both consist of works depicting imaginary landscapes.I choose these two `artists` (although Hadid, laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004 , is an architect by profession) because I am intrigued by their landscapes, designs and compositions, and certain similarities between Thorpe`s and Hadid`s works. [Click on the title to read more...] |
| Slade School of Fine Art, Term Paper - January 10, 2005 |
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