After what seems like an absolute age, this weekend we’ll have the City Gallery open once more.
Having not seen many pictures or plans, I’ve little idea what is going on inside the doors, so can tell you nothing:
Yesterday we had a rather interesting talk from Sam Kebbel of Kebbell Daish Architects, discussing Joanna Langford’s The Beautiful and the Damned – a piece currently installed in the Michael Hirschfeld Gallery.
The artwork creates an ethereal urban skyline, pieced together from the glowing windows of unbalanced buildings, with a sharp scale shift provided by the odd street lamp. This is all constructed from the soft glows of backlit computer keyboards, and the odd street level LED – producing a memorable, sublime image of the urban landscape. (more in the introduction)
The stunning use of materials is a great neighbour…
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