Exhibition
London Design Biennale 2021
01 Jun 2021 – 27 Jun 2021
Somerset House
London, United Kingdom
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Petr Stanický
Exhibition
Petr Stanický: Planes of Perception
1 Jun 2021 – 27 Jun 2021
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- Strand
- WC2R 1LA
- London
- WC2R 1LA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 77a, 91 and 176, while the River Bus Service can be taken to Embankment and Savoy Piers.
- Temple, Covent Garden, Charing Cross and Embankment.
- Charing Cross, Waterloo and Blackfriars.
Event map
As part of London Design Biennale, a site-specific installation by Czech artist Petr Stanický plays with the geometric structures of the West Wing of Somerset House and presents the viewer with different ways of perceiving reality through architecture.
About
Planes of Perception calls for a reassessment of the human axial bodily experience of space in favour of a variation of other options, allowing visitors to perceive reality in a way in which we have forgotten to perceive it in the course of time.
The spatial network of site-specific installations within the West Wing of Somerset House works with distinctive window openings that in a regular way articulate the entire architectural structure, creating a dominant rhythm that permeates as the constant along the entire ground floor of the palace.
The visual intervention works with the interior on several levels. It works not only with the windows and their distinctive geometrical form (elevated hollow block topped with a volute) but also with the specific light vista, constructed in an almost theatrical way.
The object is, therefore, a transformation of the traditional vista from the interior to the outside and seeks to break away from this scheme by expanding the possibilities of perception by the viewer by regrouping space.
Organised by London Design Biennale and supported by University of Tomas Bata Zlin, Ministry of Culture Czech Republic and Czech Centre London
https://www.londondesignbiennale.com/participant/czech-republic
