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ndy Cheese ‘The Lightness of Being’ resin
bronze at 100 Leman Street EC1 until the
beginning of July 2014. Photo courtesy of Artful
them in public corporate spaces
such as atria and reception
areas.
She rotates the art every 6
months to keep the space
refreshed. Flowers are regularly
changed she says, so how much
more important to enhance the
reception of your business by
changing the art.
A harmonious stimulating
office maximises creativity,
productivity and well-being. The
best artists are inventors,
explorers and paradigm-shifters.
What better way to keep ahead
of the times than to be
surrounded by new visions.
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Paolo Veronese
by Alessandra
Zamperini. 252pp, c.300 ills,
Thames & Hudson hbk, £60
Launched to coincide with the
major show at the National Gallery
in London, ‘Veronese: Magnific-
ence in Renaissance Venice’ (until
15 June), Zamperini’s scholarly,
large format book is translated
from the original Italian. For such
a great colourist and master of
crowd scenes, the blurb phrase
‘sumptuous volume’ is absolutely
spot on here and entirely appro-
priate for this artist, whose paint-
ings are done full justice by the
excellent reproductions – ‘lavishly
illustrated’ indeed.
AA
Matisse: The Chapel at Vence
by Marie-Thérèse Pulvenis de
Séligny. 224pp, 200 col. ill,
RA Publications hbk, £60
This lucidly written book surveys
Matisse’s compact yet transcen-
dent Chapel at Vence from all
possible angles. 1940s’ encoun-
ters with a nun and monks – and a
1930 Tahitian experience of sky
commingling with sea – helped
inspire Matisse to create ‘a church
full of gaiety’. Photos of subtle art-
istry describe marvellous details
like iridescent indigos and yellows
(cast by windows with radically
attenuated natural forms based on
papercut studies) staining the
marble floor. The interplay bet-
ween elegantly austere Stations of
the Cross drawings on ceramic
panels on one wall, and the
glowing fluidity of stained glass on
another, is movingly evoked.
Philip
Vann
Most painters will sympathise
with my joy at liberating space in
my studio when Penny
Macfarlane, of
Oil and Water
Gallery
, asked me to show 20
works for 3 months at Wedlake
Bell, a firm of solicitors in
London. After a little research, I
noticed a thriving symbiosis
between corporations, galleries
and new services to exhibit
rotating artwork in office spaces.
Katie Henry who started
Art in
Offices
2 years ago to help
companies fill empty office walls,
already has a range of venture
capitalists, hedge funders and
lawyers on her books. She can
change the art every 3 to 12
months to keep the walls fresh
and the workspace dynamic,
providing contemporary art at
affordable prices. Abstract land-
scapes with a hint of a tree or
something recognisable seem to
be most popular, she says.
By contrast, since 2009
Mikhail Zaitsev of
Hay Hill
Gallery
has successfully shown
very large sculptures which
cannot fit into his gallery in big
prestigious London business
centres; he has 3 sculptures 4
metres high on display at present
in the heart of Mayfair at Berkeley
Square House. He says he has
sold many such huge sculptures
over the years, one being
recently shipped to Latvia.
Mikhail also encouraged Elena
Polycarpou to start her own
business a few years ago.
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