Landscape & Arts members design and help create new
community garden.

When Southwark Council agreed to the development and construction of Tate Modern it was on the understanding that a Community Garden would be provided as part of the development. This is finally being realised and LAN member Edith Slee has helped design and create some features. She and LAN members Tam Giles, Jane Higginbottom and Arthur de Mowbray have contributed to the Labyrinth and some garden furniture with help and cooperation from Bost and the local community.

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In these works is an order of geometry and measure but there is another inexpressible order arising from intuition, glimpsed in reverie and contemplation…’   

Translated & paraphrased excerpt from a Taller Torres-Garcia Manifesto
 

Four years studying art studies in USA introduced me to the 'isms' of sixties' art, and my instinct guided me to Op and 'Hard Edge'. When I returned to London and met British Constructivists I recognised the significance of my brief time with Jose Gurvich, Tutor at the Taller Torres Garcia. Almost without realizing it, I had absorbed the visionary idealism of the original Constructive movement. It permeated the Taller including  Gurvich, a Jewish refugee from Lithuania..

Constructivism in the UK and USA is widely misrepresented. Its formal strategies are seen as ‘empty formalism’, but to me these should be seen as no different from the explanations of composers and musicologists explaining, say, the intricacies of a Bach fugue. ‘How it is put together’ is only part of a whole which goes beyond the evident strategies.