Unsquare Dance
Print
2021 (made)
2021 (made)
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This suite of prints was created for 'Playtime', an exhibition by Charlie Warde reimagining the potential of our built environment. Described by the artist as 'an attempt to readdress Jacques Tati’s eponymous 1967 critique of Modernism in which Monsieur Hulot bumbles his way through a cold, immovable and unrelenting Modern Paris'. From November 2021 to February 2022, Warde invited 10 artists, architects, curators and art writers to play with his modular paintings and sculptures. This suite of 16 prints are the same design as a series of magnetically backed paintings of the same title, each depicting a hyper realistic, three-dimensional slab of recently demolished Robin Hood Gardens concrete in varying states of neglect. The idea was to rearrange them in any number of configurations by the players. Warde considered the paintings as sculptures, or “Free Standing Paintings”, made according to Le Corbusier’s Modulor Rule. All of the elements were rebuilt on a weekly basis to explore different possibilities and outcomes, and the results were accessible online live via high definition CCTV cameras, bringing a digital element into the project also.
Object details
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Title | Unsquare Dance (series title) |
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Brief description | Screenprint by Charlie Warde from a suite of 16 entitled 'Unsquare Dance'. Britain, 2021. |
Physical description | Screenprint, each signed and numbered 1 in pencil by the artist on the reverse |
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Credit line | Given by Tim Travis in memory of Eileen Travis |
Summary | This suite of prints was created for 'Playtime', an exhibition by Charlie Warde reimagining the potential of our built environment. Described by the artist as 'an attempt to readdress Jacques Tati’s eponymous 1967 critique of Modernism in which Monsieur Hulot bumbles his way through a cold, immovable and unrelenting Modern Paris'. From November 2021 to February 2022, Warde invited 10 artists, architects, curators and art writers to play with his modular paintings and sculptures. This suite of 16 prints are the same design as a series of magnetically backed paintings of the same title, each depicting a hyper realistic, three-dimensional slab of recently demolished Robin Hood Gardens concrete in varying states of neglect. The idea was to rearrange them in any number of configurations by the players. Warde considered the paintings as sculptures, or “Free Standing Paintings”, made according to Le Corbusier’s Modulor Rule. All of the elements were rebuilt on a weekly basis to explore different possibilities and outcomes, and the results were accessible online live via high definition CCTV cameras, bringing a digital element into the project also. |
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Accession number | E.912:16-2022 |
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Record created | December 7, 2022 |
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