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Viewing The Line – London’s free public art walk

When The Line launched nine years ago it was London’s first dedicated public sculpture trail. Connecting three boroughs (Newham, Tower Hamlets and Greenwich) and following the Greenwich Meridian, it runs between the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and The O2 on Greenwich Peninsula. The Line features an evolving programme of art installations – both loans and commissioned works – and plays host to projects and events.

The permanent artworks visitors can encounter along the Waterworks River include Anish Kapoor’s bold red ArcelorMittal Orbit, Carsten Höller’s The Slide, and Antony Gormley’s Quantum Cloud. The Wick’s personal highlights also include Serge Attukwei Clottey’s totemic, five-metre tall Tribe and Tribulation and Yinka llori’s Types of Happiness, a collection of patterned chairs representing different kinds of happiness.

The Line remains a jewel in London’s cultural crown, a perfect way to explore the city, nature and heritage, all at once, and for free. The whole walk takes about 4 hours, but there are plenty of spots to stop on the way. The app also gives great insights from the artists to accompany your visit.

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Viewing A new exhibition explores how artists are employing tech and machinery to enthralling effect

Technology and machinery have become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, but how have these contemporary tools impacted the way we see and experience the world? An ambitious group exhibition at LVH Art takes on the topical theme exploring perception and the ways artists over the last century have used visual tricks on the human eye to prompt questions about mechanical and technological intervention.

Artists included range from Andy Warhol, who preempted the possibilities of technology in his creative process, to artists like Nate Lowman, who mines mass produced images and transforms them to create paintings, sculptures and installations that have a strange familiarity (see a 2023 oil painting of stacks of boxes of Tic Tacs). Also included is WangShui, who employs AI “as a kind of oracle”, as critic Brian Droitcour put it, in videos and installations that seek consciousness-shifting.

Housed in a vast, brutalist warehouse on Curzon Street, Mayfair, Double Take is the latest ‘What’s Up’ exhibition curated by the suave, London-based independent art advisor and collector, Lawrence Van Hagen. Van Hagen’s surveys, which he has been organising since 2016, have become known for mixing up established, major names with emerging, rising stars in unusual and unexpected settings. Double Take promises to be just as worthy of a visit – just be sure to book, as viewings are by appointment only.

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Dates
30 May 2024 — 22 June 2024
Bringing these two artists and their chosen materials together is a way of finding connections between the age-old practices of weaving and ceramics, both involving intensive physical labour. Specifically in the woven works of Hazard and in the ceramic vessels of Yasunaga, both artists engage in radical acts to bring their artworks to life, in an attempt to dissociate their chosen mediums from associations with function. Yasunaga, for example, employs glaze as his primary material from which he builds his sculptural works, using fire as a sculpting tool. Each glazed piece is then prepared for firing by burying it under protective layers of sand and kaolin which organically fuse together in the kiln.

Hazard, meanwhile, presents works from a new series, begun in 2017, exploring the Japanese notion of boro boro – referring to textiles that have been stitched, patched, mended or rewoven together. In her works, Hazard introduces woven Japanese paper into her small-format weavings. “One might think they are veils meant to conceal, but they are actually transparent, lightweight. You can see the woven pattern behind the veil.” Hazard explains. “The veils are meant to convey a sense of nobility, of preciousness to a set of techniques usually associated with discards and poverty.”


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