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United Kingdom
Sculpture, Acrylic on Other
Size: 16.5 W x 6 H x 16.5 D in
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Exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, London. New buildings vs old buildings of London. All pieces are to scale. The original 'Morals of Chess' was an essay by the American philosopher Benjamin Franklin published in The Columbian Magazine in December 1786. He compares chess to life and writes that foresight, circumspection and caution can be learnt from the game. After describing the effects chess can have on one's perception of life he describes a set of moral rules that a chess player should hold. The discourse for Karl’s work is based on taking the philosophies and etiquette described in the essay and applying it to the creation of new buildings in London. When one sets out to design a new building foresight, circumspection and caution should be applied. They are qualities the architect requires in great abundance. Their architecture should observe its surrounding rules and be executed with skill and humbleness. Are the buildings of London at war with one another? Or are they part of the same, ambient dysfunctional, family? Reds: Rook - Big Ben Knight - Tower Bridge Bishop - Oxo Tower King - St Paul Cathedral Queen - Westminster Abbey Bishop - Wesminster Cathedral Knight - Tower Bridge Rook - Christ Church Spitalfields Pawns - Tower of London Blacks: Rook - BT Tower Knight - Walkie Talkie Bishop - Gerkin King - The Shard Queen - Canary Wharf Bishop - Cheese grater Knight - Heron Tower Rook - Strata Tower Pawns - Thames Barrier
Sculpture:Acrylic on Other
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:16.5 W x 6 H x 16.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
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Karl Singporewala RWA RIBA is an architect and artist living and working in London, UK. He is also an elected Royal Academician at the Royal West of England Academy of Art. Karl’s art work focuses on scale, emotions, and witnessing. Using Computer Aided Design, laser cutters, photo etching and 3D printers to communicate ideas, follies and symbolism; his output usually takes the form of a series of maquettes or scale architectural models. Karl currently presides on the RWA Academician Council and the Exhibitions Advisory Committee. In 2023, he was a selector and curator in the 170th Annual Open Exhibition at the Royal West Academy, Bristol. Karl was awarded 1st prize for excellence in art and architecture by visiting professors from Nagoya University, Japan and University of Seoul, South Korea in 2007 and voted the HIX art award People’s Choice winner in 2014. His art work also won the inaugural Royal West Academy Art Prize for a work by a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic artist at the 168th Autumn Exhibition in 2020.
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