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Unsquare Dance

Print
2021 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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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Object type
TitleUnsquare Dance (series title)
Materials and techniques
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
Dimensions
  • Height: 14.5cm
  • Width: 10.3cm
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.
Collection
Accession number
E.912:16-2022

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Record createdDecember 7, 2022
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