Where Function Ends: Responses to The Architecture

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Taunton, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Full time

**Alex Hartley, Liz Nicol and Oliver Sutherland Where function ends: Responses to the architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton, 14 July - 27 October 2019. To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), Hestercombe Gallery presents new work by three artists that responds to the legacy of the man whose designs transformed the Hestercombe site.**:
Liz Nicol,
_Thiepval_, gelatin silver print, 2019
**Alex Hartley, Liz Nicol and Oliver Sutherland**:
**_ Where function ends_** Responses to the architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens**:
**Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton 14 July - 27 October 2019**: To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of
**Sir Edwin Lutyens** (1869-1944), Hestercombe Gallery presents new work by three artists that responds to the legacy of the man whose designs transformed the Hestercombe site. The Formal Garden at Hestercombe, built for the Portman family between 1904 and 1908, is one of the finest and most ambitious examples of Lutyens’ garden design partnership with Gertrude Jekyll. Artist in residence
**Oliver Sutherland** has been recording this garden and holding conversations with members of the gardening team at Hestercombe throughout 2018-19. Using contemporary technologies including 3D scanning and motion capture, as well as sound recording and writing, he has been exploring the sculptural and poetic relationship between Lutyens’ design and the overlaid planting devised by Jekyll, looking at the ‘destructive’ way in which the form of the garden is maintained by acts of pruning and clearing. In a moving image work that layers performance, sound and written narratives, Sutherland explores the Formal Garden as a technological space, akin to the simulated spaces found in the worlds of films and gaming, but only obtainable through excessive labour. Lutyens and Jekyll’s scheme for Hestercombe deployed a design language they developed from the Arts and Crafts tradition, but with its striking geometry and the imposing Orangery - Lutyens’ first entirely classical building - signals the direction Lutyens’ architecture was to take in the 20th century. An installation by internationally-renowned artist
**Alex Hartley** will explore the contested relationship between Lutyens’ architecture and Modernism, the dominant architectural language of the mid 20th century. As part of his series
_The Houses_, Hartley will create new works for Hestercombe, depicting iconic British Modernist houses. These will be shown alongside items from the Hestercombe archive, original drawings by Lutyens on loan from the Royal Institute of British Architects and Drawing Matter, and photographs by Gertrude Jekyll. Through a sculptural intervention in the gallery, the work aims to interrogate the British public’s apparent lack of enthusiasm for modernism in contrast to the reception of and attachment to Lutyens and his architecture, and will propose connections, overlaps and dead ends in this history. Photographer
**Liz Nicol** has developed her ongoing research into acts of commemoration by making a body of work about Lutyens’ designs for the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission. The Commission was set up during the First World War to deal with the scale of the losses during that conflict and the collective need to recover, bury and commemorate the dead. Lutyens, in consultation with his collaborator Jekyll, was a key force in establishing the design language for the war cemeteries and memorials that were constructed along the Western Front and all over the world, and which are still maintained according to his exacting standards. However, despite their quality and scale, this work is still little known in this country. Nicol has visited the cemeteries designed by Lutyens and his Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval, and explored the ways in which he developed his ‘elemental mode’, inspired by the orders and rules of Classical architecture, to articulate private and public acts of remembrance on a monumental scale. Curator Kate Best said: “This exhibition brings together the work of three outstanding artists with a group of Lutyens’ original sketches and plans, including some of those for Hestercombe, to explore his architecture at Hestercombe and beyond. The 150th anniversary of Lutyens’ birth marks the perfect point for us to look at Hestercombe’s rich history in a wider context and consider Lutyens’ work afresh through the eyes of contemporary artists. “Lutyens is considered by many to have been the greatest British architect, and his output in designing houses, gardens, public buildings, war cemeteries and New Dehli was extraordinarily prolific. In the Edwardian era he was celebrated by a rich elite, but his delight in the ‘high game’ of Classicism and his insistence that ‘Architecture, with its love and passion, begins where function ends’ was seen in antithesis to the International Style of Modernism tha

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