Artist:
Richard Wilson
Title:
Square the Block
Year:
2009
Adress:
London School of Economics
www.richardwilsonsculptor.com:
At the corner of Kingsway and Sardinia Street stands a vertical manufactured corner of a building located in the space offset marginally from the chamfered end wall. The sculptures two edges we’re copied from two chosen vertical areas on the existing buildings two sides, but when placed together made no architectural and functional sense other than matching the cornice work and completing the corner.
The base section appears compressed and twisted as if shunted upwards to free up the walkway.
www.blogs.lse.ac.uk:
If you walk down Kingsway from Holborn Station to the Aldwych you may be slightly taken aback when you glance at the corner of the New Academic Building facing Sardinia Street and Kingsway. While the top of the building looks solid at the base a giant hand or a local earthquake has scrunched the base upwards leaving it to hang in the air.
www.londonist.com:
Wilson says he finds "something beautiful" in destruction, and walking around and below the piece, the abstract beauty, in this otherwise buttoned-up street, is apparent, alongside a sense of unease; passers-by, on noticing it, tend to avoid walking underneath, as if uncertain whether the crushing motion which rendered this mess has quite finished.
www.londonist.com:
The work of Richard Wilson, a sculptor with a track record in buggering around with the harmonious exteriors of buildings — he was last seen pivoting a circular section of a condemned building during the Liverpool Biennale — Square the Block looks like the result of a highly localised earthquake that has crushed a portion of the smooth facade into rubble.
At the corner of Kingsway and Sardinia Street stands a vertical manufactured corner of a building located in the space offset marginally from the chamfered end wall. The sculptures two edges we’re copied from two chosen vertical areas on the existing buildings two sides, but when placed together made no architectural and functional sense other than matching the cornice work and completing the corner.
The base section appears compressed and twisted as if shunted upwards to free up the walkway.
www.blogs.lse.ac.uk:
If you walk down Kingsway from Holborn Station to the Aldwych you may be slightly taken aback when you glance at the corner of the New Academic Building facing Sardinia Street and Kingsway. While the top of the building looks solid at the base a giant hand or a local earthquake has scrunched the base upwards leaving it to hang in the air.
www.londonist.com:
Wilson says he finds "something beautiful" in destruction, and walking around and below the piece, the abstract beauty, in this otherwise buttoned-up street, is apparent, alongside a sense of unease; passers-by, on noticing it, tend to avoid walking underneath, as if uncertain whether the crushing motion which rendered this mess has quite finished.
www.londonist.com:
The work of Richard Wilson, a sculptor with a track record in buggering around with the harmonious exteriors of buildings — he was last seen pivoting a circular section of a condemned building during the Liverpool Biennale — Square the Block looks like the result of a highly localised earthquake that has crushed a portion of the smooth facade into rubble.