The Hayward presents Psycho Buildings: Artists Take on Architecture In London
As the highlight of the Hayward’s 40th anniversary season, ten artists from around the world transform the entire gallery in Psycho Buildings: Artists Take on Architecture, running until August 25 in London.
The Hayward’s huge spaces are filled with artist-designed architectural environments, which spill onto the three outdoor sculpture terraces, radically altering the interior and exterior of the gallery. Inside a village made from 250 doll’s houses and a room frozen in a moment of explosive disaster are amongst the installations that both enchant and disconcert visitors. Outside on the gallery’s sculpture terraces, installations include a huge iridescent observatory and a working cinema will alter the exterior face of The Hayward.
The ten artists are: Atelier Bow-Wow (Japan), Michael Beutler (Germany), Los Carpinteros (Cuba), Gelitin (Austria), Mike Nelson (UK), Ernesto Neto (Brazil), Tobias Putrih (Slovenia), Tomas Saraceno (Argentina), Do Ho Suh (Korea), Rachel Whiteread (UK).
Borrowing its title from a book by the artist Martin Kippenberger, the exhibition brings together the work of artists who create habitat-like structures and architectural spaces that are mental and perceptual spaces as much as physical ones.
The exhibition invites visitors to immerse themselves in a series of ten atmospheric, enthralling and unsettling installations. Combining architectural and artistic design with the use of light, colour and smell to trigger responses, these dynamic constructions actively encourage viewers to become adventurous participants.
For more information visit www.southbankcentre.co.uk/psycho
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