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By David Spangler, Spring 2020

 

This end table was made with upcycled vintage vanity components and a new top.

 

London Design Festival 2019 - Bamboo (竹) Ring: Weaving into Lightness

 

“Bamboo (竹) Ring, or ‘Take-wa 竹わ’, is an experiment in the concept of weaving, as explored by Kengo Kuma.

 

Japanese architect Kuma (founder of Kengo Kuma & Associates) has most recently designed the V&A Dundee, his first building in the UK, as well as the New National Stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics along with Taisei Corporation and Azusa Sekkei.

 

Inspired by the John Madejski Garden and curated by Clare Farrow, the doughnut-shaped structure – like a nest or cocoon – has been created by weaving rings of bamboo and carbon fibre together. For Kuma, working with Ejiri Structural Engineers and the Kengo Kuma Laboratory at The University of Tokyo, the installation is an exploration of pliancy, precision, lightness and strength: by pulling two ends, it naturally de-forms and half of the woven structure is lifted into the air.

 

Bamboo has been used traditionally in Japanese architecture in part due to its linearity and flexibility, and as a symbol of strength and rapid growth. The basic component of the structure – a 2m-diameter ring – is made from strips of the bamboo Phyllostachys edulis. By combining carbon fibre, a contemporary material, with the traditional material of bamboo and laminating each ring, the resulting effect achieves a certain rigidity while maintaining the unique material properties and beauty of bamboo – a remarkable, sustainable material that resonates with Kuma’s childhood memories and looks into the future of architecture.

 

Bamboo (竹) Ring, or ‘Take-wa 竹わ’, is intended to be a catalyst for weaving people and place together.

In Partnership with OPPO.

 

Further Support by Komatsu Matere, ANA (All Nippon Airways), and Jayhawk Fine Art.

 

Design Team (Kuma Lab): Kengo Kuma, Toshiki Hirano, Kohyoh Yang, Hiroki Awaji, Tomohisa Kawase

 

Fabrication Team at Komatsu Matere premises in Japan: Alexander Mladenov, Cristina Mordeglia, Luciana Tenorio, Simone Parola, Sarah Wellesley, Valentin Rodriguez de las Cuevas”

 

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Built by Matt Vaughn, Spring 2021

 

This mirror frame was built up from random pieces of scrap molding, siding and whatever else I could find.

Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2,8/28 wide open

The CEMEX Union Jack concrete mixer makes its first delivery in the city. A load of readymix from Gorton plant has gone to the Central Library part of the Manchester Town Hall Complex Transformation.

By David Spangler, Fall 2019

 

This old sewing machine base was in poor shape. David added a reclaimed fir top and brought it back to life.

GARMENTS

EXPERTLY

ALTERED

TAKE IN &

LET OUTS

SHORTENINGS

AND

LENGTHENINGS

NARROWINGS

AND

WIDENINGS

Image © Susan Candelario / SDC Photography, All Rights Reserved. The image is protected by U.S. and International copyright laws, and is not to be downloaded or reproduced in any way without written permission.

 

If you would like to license this image for any purpose, please visit my site and contact me with any questions you may have. Please visit Susan Candelario artists website to purchase Prints Thank You.

London Design Festival 2019 - Bamboo (竹) Ring: Weaving into Lightness

 

“Bamboo (竹) Ring, or ‘Take-wa 竹わ’, is an experiment in the concept of weaving, as explored by Kengo Kuma.

 

Japanese architect Kuma (founder of Kengo Kuma & Associates) has most recently designed the V&A Dundee, his first building in the UK, as well as the New National Stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics along with Taisei Corporation and Azusa Sekkei.

 

Inspired by the John Madejski Garden and curated by Clare Farrow, the doughnut-shaped structure – like a nest or cocoon – has been created by weaving rings of bamboo and carbon fibre together. For Kuma, working with Ejiri Structural Engineers and the Kengo Kuma Laboratory at The University of Tokyo, the installation is an exploration of pliancy, precision, lightness and strength: by pulling two ends, it naturally de-forms and half of the woven structure is lifted into the air.

 

Bamboo has been used traditionally in Japanese architecture in part due to its linearity and flexibility, and as a symbol of strength and rapid growth. The basic component of the structure – a 2m-diameter ring – is made from strips of the bamboo Phyllostachys edulis. By combining carbon fibre, a contemporary material, with the traditional material of bamboo and laminating each ring, the resulting effect achieves a certain rigidity while maintaining the unique material properties and beauty of bamboo – a remarkable, sustainable material that resonates with Kuma’s childhood memories and looks into the future of architecture.

 

Bamboo (竹) Ring, or ‘Take-wa 竹わ’, is intended to be a catalyst for weaving people and place together.

In Partnership with OPPO.

 

Further Support by Komatsu Matere, ANA (All Nippon Airways), and Jayhawk Fine Art.

 

Design Team (Kuma Lab): Kengo Kuma, Toshiki Hirano, Kohyoh Yang, Hiroki Awaji, Tomohisa Kawase

 

Fabrication Team at Komatsu Matere premises in Japan: Alexander Mladenov, Cristina Mordeglia, Luciana Tenorio, Simone Parola, Sarah Wellesley, Valentin Rodriguez de las Cuevas”

 

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This photo was taken using the Nikon D40x, looking onto the regeneration site in Seaton, Devon, where the Tesco supermarket being built on site is beginning to take shape, with drainage work and foundations being put in, slowly showing a footprint on which the store will sit once built. This photo was taken next to the Tramway, looking east towards Haven cliff in the distance.

 

More photos I have taken of the area since 2008 (when this area looked a whole lot different!) can be found at the blog I have set up: seatonregeneration.blogspot.com

C Barralet, Building Materials, Lea Bridge Rd, Leyton, Waltham Forest, 1994, 94-9f-31

palettes of lovely hand made clay bricks reclaimed for future use

 

from my set showing the demolition of old housing off Wavertree Road in the City of Liverpool, England in 2010

 

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By David Spangler, Fall 2019

 

This old sewing machine base was in poor shape. David added a reclaimed fir top and brought it back to life.

By Matt Vaughn, Spring 2020

 

This table was made with a salvaged Koa legs and welded steel frame.

Travaux de renouvellement du site propre du trolley à Nancy dans le cadre des aménagements pour la ligne 1 du trolley.

 

Pays : France 🇫🇷

Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)

Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)

Ville : Nancy (54000)

Quartier : Nancy Sud

Adresse : boulevard Jean-Jaurès

London Design Festival 2019 - Bamboo (竹) Ring: Weaving into Lightness

 

“Bamboo (竹) Ring, or ‘Take-wa 竹わ’, is an experiment in the concept of weaving, as explored by Kengo Kuma.

 

Japanese architect Kuma (founder of Kengo Kuma & Associates) has most recently designed the V&A Dundee, his first building in the UK, as well as the New National Stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics along with Taisei Corporation and Azusa Sekkei.

 

Inspired by the John Madejski Garden and curated by Clare Farrow, the doughnut-shaped structure – like a nest or cocoon – has been created by weaving rings of bamboo and carbon fibre together. For Kuma, working with Ejiri Structural Engineers and the Kengo Kuma Laboratory at The University of Tokyo, the installation is an exploration of pliancy, precision, lightness and strength: by pulling two ends, it naturally de-forms and half of the woven structure is lifted into the air.

 

Bamboo has been used traditionally in Japanese architecture in part due to its linearity and flexibility, and as a symbol of strength and rapid growth. The basic component of the structure – a 2m-diameter ring – is made from strips of the bamboo Phyllostachys edulis. By combining carbon fibre, a contemporary material, with the traditional material of bamboo and laminating each ring, the resulting effect achieves a certain rigidity while maintaining the unique material properties and beauty of bamboo – a remarkable, sustainable material that resonates with Kuma’s childhood memories and looks into the future of architecture.

 

Bamboo (竹) Ring, or ‘Take-wa 竹わ’, is intended to be a catalyst for weaving people and place together.

In Partnership with OPPO.

 

Further Support by Komatsu Matere, ANA (All Nippon Airways), and Jayhawk Fine Art.

 

Design Team (Kuma Lab): Kengo Kuma, Toshiki Hirano, Kohyoh Yang, Hiroki Awaji, Tomohisa Kawase

 

Fabrication Team at Komatsu Matere premises in Japan: Alexander Mladenov, Cristina Mordeglia, Luciana Tenorio, Simone Parola, Sarah Wellesley, Valentin Rodriguez de las Cuevas”

 

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Local Accession Number: 06_11_002411

Title: Barn and stacks of lumber

Genre: Stereographs; Photographic prints

Date issued: 1850-1920 (approximate)

Physical description: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 9 x 18 cm.

General notes: Title supplied by cataloger.

Date notes: Date supplied by cataloger.

Subjects: Agricultural facilities; Building materials

Collection: Stereographs

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

Shelf locator: Unidentified

Rights: No known copyright restrictions.

Built by Matt Vaughn, Spring 2021

 

These shadow boxes are made from random scraps of plywood, molding etc and feature sturdy keyhole hangers for wall mounting.

A solid marble column from Caesarea Maritima. The marble in the public buildings of this Herodian city was imported from nearly every corner of the Mediterranean world and includes an astonishing variety of colours.

By Matt Vaughn, Fall 2019

 

This kitchen island was a custom order. Made of reclaimed materials including fir & steel.

By Matt Vaughn, Fall 2019

 

This kitchen island was a custom order. Made of reclaimed materials including fir & steel.

Built by Tim O'Donnell, Summer 2021

 

This rough sawn Fir bookshelf was made with lumber recently salvaged from a home built in 1896. It has been sanded smooth and coated with protective oil.

Serpentine Pavilion 2022 Black Chapel by Theaster Gates

 

“Designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates, the Serpentine Pavilion 2022 Black Chapel draws inspiration from many of the architectural typologies that ground the artist’s practice.

 

The structure, realised with the support of Adjaye Associates, references the bottle kilns of Stoke-on-Trent, the beehive kilns of the Western United States, San Pietro and the Roman tempiettos, and traditional African structures, such as the Musgum mud huts of Cameroon, and the Kasubi Tombs of Kampala, Uganda. The Pavilion’s circularity and volume echo the sacred forms of Hungarian round churches and the ring shouts, voodoo circles and roda de capoeira witnessed in the sacred practices of the African diaspora.

 

Black Chapel is a site for contemplation and convening, set within the grounds of Serpentine in Kensington Gardens. The structure’s central oculus emanates a single source of light to create a sanctuary for reflection, refuge and conviviality. The project mirrors the artist’s ongoing engagement with ‘the vessel’ in his studio practice, and with space-making through his celebrated urban regeneration projects.

 

Drawn to the meditative environment of the Rothko Chapel – which holds fourteen paintings by American artist Mark Rothko in Houston, Texas – Gates has produced a series of new tar paintings titled Seven Songs for Black Chapel. Creating a space that reflects the artist’s hand and sensibilities, seven paintings hang from the interior. In these works, Gates honours his father’s craft as a roofer by using roofing strategies including torch down, a method which requires an open flame to heat material and affix it to a surface.

 

As part of Serpentine’s dynamic summer programme, the Pavilion becomes a platform for live performances and public convenings. An operating bronze bell – salvaged from St. Laurence, a landmark Catholic Church that once stood in Chicago’s South Side – is placed directly next to the entrance. Pointing to the erasure of spaces of convening and spiritual communion in urban communities, the historic bell will be used to call, signal and announce performances and activations at the Pavilion throughout the summer.

 

Gates’ Serpentine Pavilion 2022 Black Chapel is part of The Question of Clay, a multi-institution project which comprised of exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery (September 2021 – January 2022), White Cube (September – October 2021) and a two-year long research project at the V&A. The project seeks to investigate the making, labour and production of clay, as well as its collecting history, through exhibitions, performance and live interventions, with the aim of generating new knowledge, meaning and connections about the material.”

 

All text © Serpentine Gallery 2022, see: www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/serpentine-pavilion-...

Ivy and stems of the maiden grapes with green leaves hanging down along rock wall, Background texture

Travaux de renouvellement du site propre du trolley à Nancy dans le cadre des aménagements pour la ligne 1 du trolley.

 

Pays : France 🇫🇷

Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)

Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)

Ville : Nancy (54000)

Quartiers : Nancy Centre

Adresses : avenue Foch / place de la république

By Matt Vaughn, Spring 2020

 

This table was made with a salvaged Koa legs and welded steel frame.

London Design Festival 2019 - Bamboo (竹) Ring: Weaving into Lightness

 

“Bamboo (竹) Ring, or ‘Take-wa 竹わ’, is an experiment in the concept of weaving, as explored by Kengo Kuma.

 

Japanese architect Kuma (founder of Kengo Kuma & Associates) has most recently designed the V&A Dundee, his first building in the UK, as well as the New National Stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics along with Taisei Corporation and Azusa Sekkei.

 

Inspired by the John Madejski Garden and curated by Clare Farrow, the doughnut-shaped structure – like a nest or cocoon – has been created by weaving rings of bamboo and carbon fibre together. For Kuma, working with Ejiri Structural Engineers and the Kengo Kuma Laboratory at The University of Tokyo, the installation is an exploration of pliancy, precision, lightness and strength: by pulling two ends, it naturally de-forms and half of the woven structure is lifted into the air.

 

Bamboo has been used traditionally in Japanese architecture in part due to its linearity and flexibility, and as a symbol of strength and rapid growth. The basic component of the structure – a 2m-diameter ring – is made from strips of the bamboo Phyllostachys edulis. By combining carbon fibre, a contemporary material, with the traditional material of bamboo and laminating each ring, the resulting effect achieves a certain rigidity while maintaining the unique material properties and beauty of bamboo – a remarkable, sustainable material that resonates with Kuma’s childhood memories and looks into the future of architecture.

 

Bamboo (竹) Ring, or ‘Take-wa 竹わ’, is intended to be a catalyst for weaving people and place together.

In Partnership with OPPO.

 

Further Support by Komatsu Matere, ANA (All Nippon Airways), and Jayhawk Fine Art.

 

Design Team (Kuma Lab): Kengo Kuma, Toshiki Hirano, Kohyoh Yang, Hiroki Awaji, Tomohisa Kawase

 

Fabrication Team at Komatsu Matere premises in Japan: Alexander Mladenov, Cristina Mordeglia, Luciana Tenorio, Simone Parola, Sarah Wellesley, Valentin Rodriguez de las Cuevas”

 

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Réalisation d'un centre thermal et aquatique comprenant des espaces de stationnement et une résidence hôtelière dans le cadre du projet Grand Nancy Thermal.

• Réhabilitation et extension de la piscine intérieure.

• Réhabilitation et extension du bâtiment de la piscine ronde.

• Création de nouveaux bassins extérieurs.

• Création d'espaces verts et de stationnements (découverts et souterrains).

 

Pays : France 🇫🇷

Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)

Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)

Ville : Nancy (54000)

Quartier : Nancy Sud

Adresse : rue du Maréchal Juin

Fonction : Piscine

 

Construction : 2020 → 2023

Architecte : Architectures Anne Démians / Chabanne & Partenaires

Gros œuvre : Bouygues Construction

PC n° 54 395 19 R0043 délivré le 20 septembre 2019

 

Niveaux : R+3

Hauteur maximale : 26.66 m

Surface de plancher totale : 16 547 m²

Superficie du terrain : 37 248 m²

Built by Matt Vaughn, Spring 2021

 

This is an up-cycle of the orphaned drawer section of an old roll top desk. I welded a base from concrete form stakes and bed rails and made a case for the drawers from plywood covered in bead board. To top it off I used a piano lid which has beautiful boo matched mahogany veneers.

iPhone NYC - GW Bridge tower through a rainy windshield

London Design Festival 2019 - Bamboo (竹) Ring: Weaving into Lightness

 

“Bamboo (竹) Ring, or ‘Take-wa 竹わ’, is an experiment in the concept of weaving, as explored by Kengo Kuma.

 

Japanese architect Kuma (founder of Kengo Kuma & Associates) has most recently designed the V&A Dundee, his first building in the UK, as well as the New National Stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics along with Taisei Corporation and Azusa Sekkei.

 

Inspired by the John Madejski Garden and curated by Clare Farrow, the doughnut-shaped structure – like a nest or cocoon – has been created by weaving rings of bamboo and carbon fibre together. For Kuma, working with Ejiri Structural Engineers and the Kengo Kuma Laboratory at The University of Tokyo, the installation is an exploration of pliancy, precision, lightness and strength: by pulling two ends, it naturally de-forms and half of the woven structure is lifted into the air.

 

Bamboo has been used traditionally in Japanese architecture in part due to its linearity and flexibility, and as a symbol of strength and rapid growth. The basic component of the structure – a 2m-diameter ring – is made from strips of the bamboo Phyllostachys edulis. By combining carbon fibre, a contemporary material, with the traditional material of bamboo and laminating each ring, the resulting effect achieves a certain rigidity while maintaining the unique material properties and beauty of bamboo – a remarkable, sustainable material that resonates with Kuma’s childhood memories and looks into the future of architecture.

 

Bamboo (竹) Ring, or ‘Take-wa 竹わ’, is intended to be a catalyst for weaving people and place together.

In Partnership with OPPO.

 

Further Support by Komatsu Matere, ANA (All Nippon Airways), and Jayhawk Fine Art.

 

Design Team (Kuma Lab): Kengo Kuma, Toshiki Hirano, Kohyoh Yang, Hiroki Awaji, Tomohisa Kawase

 

Fabrication Team at Komatsu Matere premises in Japan: Alexander Mladenov, Cristina Mordeglia, Luciana Tenorio, Simone Parola, Sarah Wellesley, Valentin Rodriguez de las Cuevas”

 

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Walter Shaw, employee for 50years, turned the kiln at the CEMEX Barrington cement works for the last time before the plant is demolished. Walter worked at the plant when the kiln was first started on 21st May 1964 and was the Works Manager. He was accompanied at this final get-together by 31 ex-employees who ranged in age from Matthew Drayton, 31 who worked at the cement plant for 8 years through to 97 year old Harry Mulberry, with 51 years service. Barrington cement plant opened in 1927 and stopped production in November 2008.

  

By David Spangler, Spring 2020

 

This end table was made with upcycled vintage vanity components and a new top.

 

By Matt Vaughn, Spring 2020

 

This table was made with a salvaged Koa legs and welded steel frame.

By David Spangler, Spring 2020

 

This end table was made with upcycled vintage vanity components and a new top.

 

By Matt Vaughn, Spring 2020

 

This table was made with a salvaged Koa legs and welded steel frame.

Built by Matt Vaughn, Spring 2021

 

This little shelf was made to fit in tight spaces and is made from random wood scraps. The steel legs are welded from old concrete form stakes and the top is salvaged bleacher board.

Built by Matt Vaughn, Spring 2021

 

This mirror frame was built up from random pieces of scrap molding, siding and whatever else I could find.

Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission.

© rogerperriss@aol.com All rights reserved.

Serpentine Pavilion 2022 Black Chapel by Theaster Gates

 

“Designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates, the Serpentine Pavilion 2022 Black Chapel draws inspiration from many of the architectural typologies that ground the artist’s practice.

 

The structure, realised with the support of Adjaye Associates, references the bottle kilns of Stoke-on-Trent, the beehive kilns of the Western United States, San Pietro and the Roman tempiettos, and traditional African structures, such as the Musgum mud huts of Cameroon, and the Kasubi Tombs of Kampala, Uganda. The Pavilion’s circularity and volume echo the sacred forms of Hungarian round churches and the ring shouts, voodoo circles and roda de capoeira witnessed in the sacred practices of the African diaspora.

 

Black Chapel is a site for contemplation and convening, set within the grounds of Serpentine in Kensington Gardens. The structure’s central oculus emanates a single source of light to create a sanctuary for reflection, refuge and conviviality. The project mirrors the artist’s ongoing engagement with ‘the vessel’ in his studio practice, and with space-making through his celebrated urban regeneration projects.

 

Drawn to the meditative environment of the Rothko Chapel – which holds fourteen paintings by American artist Mark Rothko in Houston, Texas – Gates has produced a series of new tar paintings titled Seven Songs for Black Chapel. Creating a space that reflects the artist’s hand and sensibilities, seven paintings hang from the interior. In these works, Gates honours his father’s craft as a roofer by using roofing strategies including torch down, a method which requires an open flame to heat material and affix it to a surface.

 

As part of Serpentine’s dynamic summer programme, the Pavilion becomes a platform for live performances and public convenings. An operating bronze bell – salvaged from St. Laurence, a landmark Catholic Church that once stood in Chicago’s South Side – is placed directly next to the entrance. Pointing to the erasure of spaces of convening and spiritual communion in urban communities, the historic bell will be used to call, signal and announce performances and activations at the Pavilion throughout the summer.

 

Gates’ Serpentine Pavilion 2022 Black Chapel is part of The Question of Clay, a multi-institution project which comprised of exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery (September 2021 – January 2022), White Cube (September – October 2021) and a two-year long research project at the V&A. The project seeks to investigate the making, labour and production of clay, as well as its collecting history, through exhibitions, performance and live interventions, with the aim of generating new knowledge, meaning and connections about the material.”

 

All text © Serpentine Gallery 2022, see: www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/serpentine-pavilion-...

London Design Festival 2019 - Bamboo (竹) Ring: Weaving into Lightness

 

“Bamboo (竹) Ring, or ‘Take-wa 竹わ’, is an experiment in the concept of weaving, as explored by Kengo Kuma.

 

Japanese architect Kuma (founder of Kengo Kuma & Associates) has most recently designed the V&A Dundee, his first building in the UK, as well as the New National Stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics along with Taisei Corporation and Azusa Sekkei.

 

Inspired by the John Madejski Garden and curated by Clare Farrow, the doughnut-shaped structure – like a nest or cocoon – has been created by weaving rings of bamboo and carbon fibre together. For Kuma, working with Ejiri Structural Engineers and the Kengo Kuma Laboratory at The University of Tokyo, the installation is an exploration of pliancy, precision, lightness and strength: by pulling two ends, it naturally de-forms and half of the woven structure is lifted into the air.

 

Bamboo has been used traditionally in Japanese architecture in part due to its linearity and flexibility, and as a symbol of strength and rapid growth. The basic component of the structure – a 2m-diameter ring – is made from strips of the bamboo Phyllostachys edulis. By combining carbon fibre, a contemporary material, with the traditional material of bamboo and laminating each ring, the resulting effect achieves a certain rigidity while maintaining the unique material properties and beauty of bamboo – a remarkable, sustainable material that resonates with Kuma’s childhood memories and looks into the future of architecture.

 

Bamboo (竹) Ring, or ‘Take-wa 竹わ’, is intended to be a catalyst for weaving people and place together.

In Partnership with OPPO.

 

Further Support by Komatsu Matere, ANA (All Nippon Airways), and Jayhawk Fine Art.

 

Design Team (Kuma Lab): Kengo Kuma, Toshiki Hirano, Kohyoh Yang, Hiroki Awaji, Tomohisa Kawase

 

Fabrication Team at Komatsu Matere premises in Japan: Alexander Mladenov, Cristina Mordeglia, Luciana Tenorio, Simone Parola, Sarah Wellesley, Valentin Rodriguez de las Cuevas”

 

All text Copyright of www.londondesignfestival.com

Serpentine Pavilion 2022 Black Chapel by Theaster Gates

 

“Designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates, the Serpentine Pavilion 2022 Black Chapel draws inspiration from many of the architectural typologies that ground the artist’s practice.

 

The structure, realised with the support of Adjaye Associates, references the bottle kilns of Stoke-on-Trent, the beehive kilns of the Western United States, San Pietro and the Roman tempiettos, and traditional African structures, such as the Musgum mud huts of Cameroon, and the Kasubi Tombs of Kampala, Uganda. The Pavilion’s circularity and volume echo the sacred forms of Hungarian round churches and the ring shouts, voodoo circles and roda de capoeira witnessed in the sacred practices of the African diaspora.

 

Black Chapel is a site for contemplation and convening, set within the grounds of Serpentine in Kensington Gardens. The structure’s central oculus emanates a single source of light to create a sanctuary for reflection, refuge and conviviality. The project mirrors the artist’s ongoing engagement with ‘the vessel’ in his studio practice, and with space-making through his celebrated urban regeneration projects.

 

Drawn to the meditative environment of the Rothko Chapel – which holds fourteen paintings by American artist Mark Rothko in Houston, Texas – Gates has produced a series of new tar paintings titled Seven Songs for Black Chapel. Creating a space that reflects the artist’s hand and sensibilities, seven paintings hang from the interior. In these works, Gates honours his father’s craft as a roofer by using roofing strategies including torch down, a method which requires an open flame to heat material and affix it to a surface.

 

As part of Serpentine’s dynamic summer programme, the Pavilion becomes a platform for live performances and public convenings. An operating bronze bell – salvaged from St. Laurence, a landmark Catholic Church that once stood in Chicago’s South Side – is placed directly next to the entrance. Pointing to the erasure of spaces of convening and spiritual communion in urban communities, the historic bell will be used to call, signal and announce performances and activations at the Pavilion throughout the summer.

 

Gates’ Serpentine Pavilion 2022 Black Chapel is part of The Question of Clay, a multi-institution project which comprised of exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery (September 2021 – January 2022), White Cube (September – October 2021) and a two-year long research project at the V&A. The project seeks to investigate the making, labour and production of clay, as well as its collecting history, through exhibitions, performance and live interventions, with the aim of generating new knowledge, meaning and connections about the material.”

 

All text © Serpentine Gallery 2022, see: www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/serpentine-pavilion-...

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