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Keith Coventry — Nemo Estate
Keith Coventry

Nemo Estate

2018

A meticulously rendered architectural floor plan rendered in coloured pencil and oil stick, *Nemo Estate* presents the utilitarian layout of a British social housing block with the detached precision of a bureaucratic document. Coventry appropriates the visual language of modernist urban planning, transforming the anonymous geometry of council estate design into a charged aesthetic object. The artist's frame further elevates the work, implicating the institutions of art and architecture in the social conditions such estates were built to address.

Medium
coloured pencil and oil stick on paper mounted on paper, in artist's frame

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Keith Coventry, Nemo Estate, 2018

A meticulously rendered architectural floor plan rendered in coloured pencil and oil stick, *Nemo Estate* presents the utilitarian layout of a British social housing block with the detached precision of a bureaucratic document. Coventry appropriates the visual language of modernist urban planning, transforming the anonymous geometry of council estate design into a charged aesthetic object. The artist's frame further elevates the work, implicating the institutions of art and architecture in the social conditions such estates were built to address.

Medium
coloured pencil and oil stick on paper mounted on paper, in artist's frame
Year
2018
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Monochrome, Bold, Mixed Media, Estate, Social Commentary, Urban, Colored Pencil, British, Architecture, Contemporary

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