ETON COLLEGE DRAWING SCHOOLS
THE ART OF ARCHITECTURE

HELENE KAZAN
Thursday 20th April – Saturday 29th April
Private View on Saturday 22nd April – 6.30pm till 9.00pm

‘a marker of time and labour that explores the sociology of space’
Flash Art, Summer 1999, Sarah Sze, John Slyce.

This exhibition focuses on the effect that structures or buildings have on an individual, its community and therefore its culture. Relating back to the origin of civilisation, architecture was used as a way to bring people together or even to control. As culture has developed through growing globalisation it is these structures that now hold such resounding importance to a person and their sense of origin. The buildings around us signify the places that we inhabit; from where it is we come from.

In this exhibition Helene Kazan has taken the basic principals of Architecture and has manipulated them in an artistic context to answer some of these questions. Like an architect she begins the process with a drawing that later forms the blue print for the three dimensional structure or installation. Using the qualities of the materials, like tracing paper and glass for layering, like Photoshop.

Helene Kazan graduated Wimbledon School of Art with First Class BA Hons in 2004, and has since exhibited in and around London. Growing up around Eton was what informed this exhibition. Experiencing it for many years as both an outside and inside spectator created the focus on the characteristics of a building you would encounter both as an outsider and an insider i.e. windows and doors. Recreating normally mundane characteristics, to form abstract new structures.

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