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Replete with numerous exhibition spaces including a double-height project space, offices for the two organisations that manage the centre, a café and even a library, Rivington Place is a new landmark on the British art scene. |
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The UK's first permanent structure dedicated to cultural diversity in the visual arts, already it has an impressive selection of events lined up, beginning with the diasporic exhibition 'London is the Place For Me' which opens the centre on Friday. With an enticing cultural diversity inherent to both Autograph ABP
and the International Institute of Visual Art who are behind the centre,
it is somehow apt that their exciting new home be designed by the prodigious
Ghanaian-parented, Tanzanian-born, London-based 'conceptual architect'
David Adjaye. |
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Compared to his £14.5 million Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo and last year's Stirling-nominated £12 million Whitechapel Idea Store, the £8 million for Rivington Place might seem paltry. But as London's first publicly-funded building of its kind since the Hayward was unveiled almost 40 years ago, the concrete-latticed, saw-tooth-roofed edifice is as much an iconic addition to Adjaye's legacy as to the future of British international visual and photographic art. Rivington Place - Private press launch today, open to the public from Friday with London is the Place For Me |
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