10 x 10 : drawing the City
Small exhibition in new galleries at Somerset House of drawings
of London by various artists which were to be sold at Sotheby’s to raise money
for Article 25, a development and disaster relief charity.
The premise of the exhibition was that a square mile of the
West End had been divided into 100 squares and each artist was allocated a
square to create an art work inspired by it.
It was a mix of standard views and new takes on subjects
such as Mary Bowman’s overlaying of a map of her square on a photograph of
barrels.
I loved a picture of the old War Office on Whitehall by Joseph
Robson done in sections of photographs, drawing and watercolour and pieced together to form a
picture of the whole building. Also Richard
Portchmouth’s view of the corner of Sir John Soane’s house with a reflection of
Lincoln’s Inn outside in a convex mirror.
Another interesting picture by Michelle Mossessian showed
the view up through buildings shown as the space they made against the sky
rather than the buildings themselves.
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