Circa Magazine – Art and Architecture

CIRCA is Ireland’s leading magazine for the visual arts and visual culture. The Autumn issue of CIRCA Art Magazine, themed on Art and Architecture, is now on sale.
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Art and Architecture Architecture into paint
Blaise Drummond and Toby Paterson, two artists who paint but who have consistently shown a fascination with the built environment, conversed recently by e-mail about their work and the ideas that guide them.

The house on the hill
Emma Mahony explores a unique project in Los Angeles by Jorge Pardo, where art and architecture are inseparable.

Tracking the urban animal
Marjetica Potrc, winner of the Guggenheim’s prestigious Hugo Boss Award, has been described as an urban anthropologist. Despite a formal architectural training her approach is far from formal and often nonlinear. Here artist Aisling O’Beirn and Potrc discuss various strategies and such diverse issues as gated communities, upgrading of the core unit, technology close to the body and, more recently, urban animals.

The challenge of space
Gemma Tipton considers the architecture of contemporary art museumsGemma Tipton considers the architecture of contemporary art museums Features Who owns images: science or art?
We think of artists as masters of the visual, but others may have a better claim. Here James Elkins reports on recent conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

House style
Sarah Pierce is the third Artistic Director at Arthouse in as many years. Orla Ryan asks her about her plans to make a difference.

Where prejudices can be dispelled
Joe Wilson continues our series of art-education articles with a look at the drawing class.

Moderna Museet
For CIRCA, Fina Kearny has looked at the Tate Modern, the Pompidou Centre, MUHKA in Antwerp, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She concludes her series on museums of modern art now, with a look at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Venice reports On the other side of open
Now that the show’s up and running, how does the Republic of Ireland’s commissioner for Venice view the experience?

Venice Triumph
David Blamey and Paul O’Neill summarise what Venice is all about. Projects Double Bar, by Katarina Matiasek

Yikes!, by Marjetica Potrc

Bungalow Blitz, by Aoife Mac Namara, Andrew Kearney and Paul Antick