Office building, London
2006
Photo: Pablo Bronstein
Pablo Bronstein
Tour of London Postmodern Architecture
‘Focusing on the politics of architectural style during the Thatcher years, the bus tour will investigate a London before the economic crash, highlighting work by architects as great as James Stirling and as unfashionable as Leon Krier. Many of these buildings — having spawned a family of imitations — now blend into the frumpy local high street that they helped to transform; some, such as Charing Cross station by Terry Farrell, have become much-loved monuments to a more optimistic age. The tour will rediscover and reappraise the buildings in light of the architecture boom currently under way in London, and will give a backdrop to the climate that gave rise to the possibility of an international art fair.’
Pablo Bronstein, May 2006
Pablo Bronstein presented an architectural tour of London’s most lauded and most derided buildings of the 1980s and ‘90s, in a work that drew on and developed themes recurrent in his practice. While his intricately rendered drawings fuse the architectural tropes of the 18th century and the 1980s, Bronstein’s more recent architectural interventions — such as his Triennial Plaza for the Tate Triennial 2006 in collaboration with architect Celine Condorelli — draw attention to and choreograph movement through gallery space.
Pablo Bronstein (b. 1977) is an artist living and working in London. Recent group shows include Tate Triennial, Tate Britain (2006), ‘Beck’s Futures’ and ‘London in Six Easy Steps’, both at the ICA, London (2005).
Bronstein’s tour bus schedule and reservations can be confirmed each day at Frieze Art Fair Information Desk from 11am. Access to the tour is included in the Frieze Art Fair admission ticket; however, places are limited.
