A Kaleidoscopic Journey
Manchester-based artist Liz West, who was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize in 2016, creates site-specific artworks that use vivid colour, light and space to ignite remarkable sensory experiences. Her latest piece,
Hundreds and Thousands, transforms The Tide walkway in Greenwich Peninsula, London, into a kaleidoscopic installation. Here she tells us about the workâs origins and why sheâs fascinated by the science of colour perception.
A: How did you develop your vision for
Hundreds and Thousands?
LW:
Hundreds and Thousands was initially derived from a series of drawings based on the individual human experience of encountering colour. My experiments in colour mixing and blending are influenced by the theory of Josef Albers. Albers’ work led me to focus on the interaction of colours as well as creating careful compositions and spatial balance between geometric elements such as gridded or striped arrangements.
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Exhibition presents Joan Miro s maquette for one of the ceramic murals commissioned for the UNESCO plaza in Paris
Joan Miró (1893 1983), Mur de la Lune (TheWall of the Moon); the maquette for the UNESCO ceramic mural, 1955, gouache, watercolour, ink and pencil on paper laid on masonite, 22.9 x 74.6 cm. Courtesy Dickinson Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Miró: The Wall of the Moon presents Joan Miros superb maquette for one of the ceramic murals commissioned for the UNESCO plaza in Paris, Mur de la Lune (The Wall of the Moon), alongside a complementary selection of Mid-Century paintings and sculpture.
Painted in 1955, the maquette features the celestial shapes that define Mirós most celebrated paintings, and retains its original, vibrant colouring thanks to its exceptional state of preservation. Miró presented the painting to the architect Marcel Breuer, at the completion of the UNESCO project, and it has remained in the Breuer family collection ever since.
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Ema Peter 15/30
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Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Justice Center is a tribal community use facility in the heart of an ancestral indigenous American home
Matt Winquist
In the 22nd article in a series on 20th century artists who shaped Maltese modernism,
Joseph Agius delves into the world of
Harry Alden.
La Pietà
Art history has provided us with numerous examples of artists who are defined by a preferred stylistic choice, sometimes trickling into a thematic disposition as well. One can mention Giorgio Morandi and his still lifes that exude musical silence and metaphysical properties, Carlo Mattioli and his ephemeral trees amid minimal landscapes and Mark Rothko and his exploration of the spiritual through the minimalistic reduction of elements. In Maltese modernism, Harry Alden (1929-2019) stands out as being exclusively and almost religiously devoted to the technique of hard-edge.
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