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View of the North Exhibition Gallery
Photo by Gareth Gardner
Artists' models
Photo by Gareth Gardner
Model for Adjoining Rooms 1989
Wood, MDF, card, poly carbonate, paint, acrylic sheet
15 x 54 x 15 cm
Derwent London plc
Model for Interlocking Chairs 1994
MDF, card, paint, acrylic sheet
15 x 60 x 15 cm
Derwent London plc
Model for Burnt Interlocking Chairs 1997
MDF, card, paint, acrylic sheet
15 x 60 x 15 cm
Derwent London plc
These models show the working methods of Langlands & Bell: they produce their sculptures in the form of models, much as Soane produced models of his buildings.
Façade Berlin
Photo by Steve White
Façade Berlin 1999
Wood, glass, paint, lacquer
112 x 98 x 13 cm
Christina and Dimitri Goulandris Collection, London
This work depicts another of Le Corbusier’s Unite d’habitation buildings – this time the one in Berlin.
Frozen Sky (Night & Day)
Frozen Sky (Night & Day) 2000
2 screen process prints on Somerset satin 300 gsm
70 x 66 cm (each)
Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
Each print comprises a circle composed of airport codes.
Air Routes of Britain (Night & Day)
Air Routes of Britain (Night & Day) 2000
2 screen prints on Somerset satin 300 gsm
70 x 55 cm (each)
The artists
Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
This pair of prints visualises air routes to and throughout Britain.
Air Routes of Europe (Night & Day)
Air Routes of Europe (Night & Day) 2002–20
Archival pigment print
100 x 100 cm (each)
The artists
This pair of prints visualises air routes to and throughout Europe. When seen together, Frozen Sky and the Air Routes prints represent the ways in which the technology of air travel collapses space and time and allow ideas to accelerate.
Front Kitchen Back to top
Installation photos by Gareth Gardner. Photo of Wind Dried Whippet: Langlands & Bell
Traces of Living 1986-2020
Beech, MDF, found objects, glass, AC lacquer
Installation: chairs: 92 x 45 x 45 cm (each); table: 90 x 137 x 74 cm
The artists
Originally made in 1986, this version of Traces of Living uses two chairs from the original work paired with a table of the same dimensions as Soane’s kitchen table and two newly made chairs. The tabletop’s vitrine is filled with objects that originated in the East End: a bird, a gravy boat, a plate with melted candles, a rat in a loaf of bread, and a yellow brick, which alludes to Soane’s humble origins as the son of a bricklayer. Two of the chairs contain models of the basement of the National Gallery and the basement of the Soane Museum.
Wind Dried Whippet 1982
Desiccated dog carcass
67 x 107 x 15 cm
The artists
Langlands & Bell have often integrated found objects into their practice as a way of reflecting trauma. This work was found in a market stall on Brick Lane and is a naturally dried and mummified whippet. In life, the whippet was probably an East End racing dog. It was common practice to mistreat the animals by locking them away once they were past their racing prime, and it is thought that this may have been the fate of the whippet on display.
Rear Kitchen Back to top
Photo by Gareth Gardner
The House of Osama bin Laden 2003
Interactive computer animation/data projection
The artists
This work is a digital model that reconstructs Osama bin Laden’s former house at Daruntah, Afghanistan. Langlands & Bell were commissioned to go to Afghanistan in 2002 in the aftermath of 9/11 to document the war. The House of Osama bin Laden was rendered using hundreds of photos and measurements the artists took when they visited the house which was occupied by the Hizb-i-Islami militia at the time, and uses the Quake games engine to explore it – visitors to the Museum may use the joystick to navigate their way through the digital model. This work is the central part of the eponymous trilogy of art works about the conflict shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2004.
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Photo by Gareth Gardner
The Burnt Madonna 1985
Charred oak
125 x 40 x 35 cm
The artists
This work is a found object salvaged from an arson attack at a Roman Catholic church in Suffolk, St Pancras, Ipswich, on Christmas Day in 1985.
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2018-19 A Contemporary Conversation
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Photo by Gareth Gardner
Burnt Interlocking Chairs 1997
Charred beech, glass
92 x 92 x 64 cm
The artists
This work consists of two discrete chairs, merged to form a single object, burnt like The Burnt Madonna.
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Photos by Gareth Gardner
Grand Tour 2020
Wood, lacquer, glass
Installation: 92 x 800 x 45 cm; chairs: 92 x 45 x 45 cm (each)
The artists
Along with the new version of Traces of Living in the kitchens and Globe Table in the Breakfast Room, this is one of three works that was made specially for the show. Sir John Soane undertook the Grand Tour as part of his architectural education, and this work represents a Grand Tour that Soane might take were he alive today. In addition to showing works of architecture that Soane actually visited, such as the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli and La Scala opera house in Milan, it also shows projects such as the Generali Tower in Milan, by Zaha Hadid.
Buildings depicted:
- Villa Farnese, Caprarola. Giacomo Barozzi. 1530
- Bourse de Commerce : Collection Pinault (Conversion). Tadao Ando. 2020
- Kunsthaus Zurich (Extension). David Chipperfield. 2018
- Teatro alla Scala, Milan. Marliani, Nosetti, Fe. 1778
- Kunstmuseum Basel (Extension). Christ Gantenbein. 2016
- The Temple of Vesta. Lucius Gellius. 100 BC.
- Generali Tower, Milan. ZHA. 2018
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Globe Table
Photo by Gareth Gardner
Globe Table 2020
Wood, lacquer, resin
120 (h) x 110 (dia) cm
The artists
This work takes the form of a historic globe in a table, whose dimensions have derived from Soane’s breakfast table. Soane depicted similar tables in the drawings that his office produced. However, instead of showing the countries of the world, the globe that Langlands & Bell have created depicts the air routes of the world. Visitors to the Museum can move the globe in all directions to reveal different views.
Virtual World, Medal of Dishonour
Photo by Gareth Gardner
Virtual World 2009
Struck and enamelled silver
7.5 (dia) cm
The artists
“Virtual World", the medal installed in the Museum’s pistol case was commissioned by the British Museum for the exhibition Medals of Dishonour in 2009. The face (obverse) has three concentric rings which contain categories of codes: airports (black), NGOs involved in disaster relief (blue) , and banned organisations and security agencies (red). The rear (reverse) shows top level domains (internet country codes).
www.
Photo by Gareth Gardner
www. 2000
Laser-etched optical glass
10 x 10 x 10 cm
The artists
Like the Globe Table, this work illustrates a network of communication described by by the world's principal air routes.