Exhibition
The Brutalist Playground // Assemble and Simon Terrill
28 Apr 2016 – 29 May 2016
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 09:30 – 17:30
- Friday
- 09:30 – 17:30
- Saturday
- 09:30 – 17:30
- Tuesday
- 09:30 – 17:30
- Wednesday
- 09:30 – 17:30
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 21 Castle Street
- Aberdeen
- AB11 5BQ
- United Kingdom
Peacock Visual Arts is delighted to host The Brutalist Playground by recent Turner Prize winners Assemble, and artist Simon Terrill, exploring post-war design for play, as part of Look Again Visual Art & Design Festival.
About
Peacock Visual Arts is delighted to host The Brutalist Playground by recent Turner Prize winners Assemble, and artist Simon Terrill, exploring post-war design for play, as part of Look Again Visual Art & Design Festival.
Brutalism was an architectural movement of the 1950s-70s, which aligned with a new socialist agenda. Buildings were fortress-like in form, often of grand monolithic scale and designed to bring function to the flow of people populating them. As such, Brutalism was predominately found in municipal buildings, educational institutions, shopping centres and high-rise housing. It is from the high-rise housing schemes and their surrounding social spaces and playgrounds that The Brutalist Playground takes its inspiration.
By recreating the post-war playground structures in soft pastel coloured foam The Brutalist Playground is an immersive and climbable installation – fun for all ages!
The installation was originally commissioned in 2015 by the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) and is accompanied by a film made by Simon Terrill using archival images from the RIBA’s archive
The Brutalist Playground is the centrepiece of Aberdeen’s Look Again Festival 2016, which celebrates bringing the very best in visual art and design to the city.
