Submitted by WA Contents

Focus on Alex Chinneck’s theatrical architecture

United Kingdom Architecture News - May 28, 2015 - 10:46   3490 views

Focus on Alex Chinneck’s theatrical architecture

Take my lightning but don't steal my thunder, an installation in Covent Garden; image via Telegraph/Luxury

A bold new installation at the ever-evolving Greenwich Peninsula puts the work of this visionary British artist in the spotlight.

There is a terrace house whose entire redbrick front, as if too exhausted to hold itself up anymore, has slipped away from its frame and lies slumped in its own front garden. A Vauxhall Corsa is going nowhere, because the tarmac it’s on has curled right up and over, leaving it suspended, cartoon-like, completely upside-down. A historic building in Covent Garden market is sliced through the middle, its upper half entirely dislocated, mysteriously floating above the base it’s no longer attached to. Welcome to the magical, mysterious, theatrical world of Alex Chinneck, where normal life gets picked up, turned inside out, shaken and put back the wrong way – on a truly massive scale........Continue Reading

> via Telegraph/Luxury