In this art exhibition, titled âFaulty Towers',
a diverse group of artists and musicians have
come together to investigate how art, music
and other creative genres incorporate
structures and systems that have direct
parallels with architecture. Towers have
become a re-occurring building type in
virtually every major city around the world.
These often begin life as shiny and
glamorous icons but after a time, unforeseen
constructional and planning defects
sometimes render them unusable - they may
even have to undergo major refurbishment
or need to be completely demolished. Thus
towers often represent both a celebration
and disillusionment about mankind's future.
The creative works that are being displayed
are a mixture of both serious and humorous pieces,
that attempt to engage with the
common underpinnings found in nature and
the environment, with the structural,
mathematical and proportioning systems of
the man-made world. Some of the artists
propose elegant and perhaps impossible new
construction or sometimes deconstruction,
whilst others combine ad-hoc marks, or
hybrid and collaged shapes which mimic
natural generative and regenerative
processes. In this exhibition each artist
explores their own personal reaction to this theme,
leaving the viewer to ponder their
own, inevitably uncertain future
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