New Babylon (1963)
3 September 2015
New Babylon (1963)3 September 2015
– Constant
Constant (1920–2005), Cover to New Babylon, 1963. Lithographs, 400 × 380 mm. DMC 1472. The following is excerpted from Constant’s New Bablyon, 1963, and translated by Kenny Stevens. Books full…
Dissecting
25 July 2017
Dissecting25 July 2017
Programme Notes: Drawing Matter, Royal Fine Art Commission Trust, Kingston School of Art Summer School. Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), detail, cast-concrete block, Midway Gardens, Chicago, c.1914. Cast concrete. DMC 1414….
Mario Sironi
27 March 2017
Mario Sironi27 March 2017
Mario Sironi (1855–1961), Architectural Study, c.1925–1938. Pencil and black ink on paper, 175 × 225 mm. DMC 2037.12. Politics as a Pretext for Making Mario Sironi compromised and traumatised in…
Salvador Dalí
28 July 2017
Salvador Dalí28 July 2017
Salvador Dali (1904–1989), Building Study, 1939. Pen and ink and pencil on lined laid paper, 258 × 210 mm. DMC 2701. There is evidence that Salvador Dalí’s enigmatic study for…
Child’s Play: Adolfo Natalini’s ‘Disegni Per Bambini’
31 August 2017
Child’s Play: Adolfo Natalini’s ‘Disegni Per Bambini’31 August 2017
Adolfo Natalini (1941–2020), Detail, Quaderno Americano, p. 3, 1972. DMC 2129. In 1972 Adolfo Natalini spent a few months in the United States. The main event of his visit was…
Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu
7 September 2017
Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu7 September 2017
Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, Carrousel: Trial panels for the painted column at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2015. Wax crayon on six plywood panels, 450 × 220 × 10 mm. DMC…
Behind the Lines 1
22 September 2017
Behind the Lines 122 September 2017
Rex Savidge (1932), Entrance vestibule to civic building, Newcastle, 1957. Photomontage, ink and black and white photographs on Whatman 1956 paper, 585 × 800 mm. DMC 2907. I look at…
Aldo Rossi
30 September 2017
Aldo Rossi30 September 2017
Aldo Rossi (1931–1997), copy by Jesse Reiser, Composition with Modena Cemetery (1972), 1979. Sepia ink and gouache on paper, 712 × 1003 mm. DMC 2287. © Eredi Aldo Rossi. In…
James Wines: Ghost Parking Lot
5 October 2017
James Wines: Ghost Parking Lot5 October 2017
James Wines (1932), Ghost Parking Lot, Hamden Mall, New Haven, Connecticut, 1977. Pen and ink on paper, 348 × 432 mm. DMC 2293. This drawing depicts a site-specific public art…
A.L.T. Vaudoyer
4 May 2017
A.L.T. Vaudoyer4 May 2017
Antoine-Laurent-Thomas Vaudoyer (1756–1846), Preliminary Study, ‘Maison d’un Cosmopolite’, inscribed: ‘Maggio 1782’. Ink, pencil and washes on paper, 115 × 242 mm. DMC 1460. Antoine-Laurent-Thomas Vaudoyer’s Maison d’un Cosmopolite is part…
François Soufflot le Romain: Ruins
9 February 2015
François Soufflot le Romain: Ruins9 February 2015
– Editors
François Soufflot le Romain (1750–1801), section, survey of Temple of Minerva, Rome, 1778. Black ink and grey and red washed, with black pencil detailing on paper, 550 × 445 mm….
presentation concept & diagram memorial & monument DMC elevation survey