Crisis Commission at Somerset House
By Language Centre tutor Amanda Adorni, May 2012
UAL Language Centre students visited the Crisis Commission at Somerset house this month. Contemporary artists were asked to create a work that represents ‘homelessness’ – and they are all on show for free at Somerset House, London. The pieces will then be auctioned at Christie’s in London on the 3rd May, and all the money will go to the charity Crisis, who support homeless people in the big cities in England – http://www.christies.com/events/?event=crisis-commission-benefit
The students liked all the works but the one that stood out was the one by Anthony Gormely. It is a wooden figure which could almost be a piece of street furniture and yet it also looks like a person. You can see the artist talking about it in the short video found here -http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/crisis
The other interesting thing about our trip was Fernando Casasempere’s courtyard installation of 10,000 ceramic daffodils, to represent the beginning of spring. http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/out-of-sync
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
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