Ryan Gander: Culture field
Fairfield International is a residential art school conceived by Ryan Gander with collaborator Simon Turnbull. Ryan Gander is an artist who embodies that maddeningly evasive tension between authorship and viewership, carefully balancing the ambiguous question surrounding who drives the narrative: artist or viewer?
When he opened the school he placed posters, here is one 'imagineering' the ida that he was engineering artists and their imagination and creativity, using phrases like 'daydreamers wanted'.
Erno Goldfinger was an architect and furniture designer that is known for his residential towner blocks, part of a government attempt to solve housing shortage after world war 11, his most icons is the 27-floor Balfon tower in east London. ' The boy who always looked up' is Ryan Anders engagement with this leading figure in modernism. The book is shown above, I really like the aesthetic of the book. I'm not too sure on the concept or why it relates to Erno Goldfinger and his tower blocks other than the height. But the graphic language of it is really nice, the carton style, the limited colour pallet and simple layouts work really well in a book this simple.
Goldfinger built a house for him and his family in 1939 and filled the house with Goldfinger's collection of modern art, the house is now owned by national trust who in 2014 invited ran gander to engage with the furniture that Erno designed for 2 willow road, he created new works.
