Magnificent Rural Outbuilding

Pablo Bronstein (1977 - )

Two-part work: pencil, ink and gouache on paper

2010

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: Belgium
    City: Brussels
    Place: British Embassy, UK representation to the EU & UK delegation to NATO
    At first glance, 'Magnificent Rural Outbuilding', a diptych by Pablo Bronstein, takes on the appearance of historic architectural sketches. The yellowed paper, slightly foxed edges and grey and black ink, gives each drawing the patina of age, like long lost sketches discovered for the first time. Decorative curlicues and scrollwork around each sketch adds to the impression that these are 18th-century illustrations.
    The sketch shows a bird’s eye view of a formal garden layout, in which a long straight path leads up to a box-like building at the top of the composition.The building, an unusual synthesis of minimalist and decorative styles, is the subject of the second sketch. Its façade is punctured by two darkened archways which flank a single Doric column, occupying the space where a doorway would naturally be. Rising up above like an improbable neo-classical chimney is a Corinthian column, disproportionately large.
  • About the artist
    Pablo Bronstein was born in Buenos Aires and first studied fine art at the Slade School of Art (2001). He later completed his MA at Goldsmiths College (2004). Since graduating he has held several solo exhibitions including shows in London, Turin, and New York. In 2010 he produced Garden A La Mode, a sculpture for Tate Britain.
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    Places
    England, Lawson Park, Lake District, Cumbria, Grizedale
    Subjects
    Materials & Techniques
    paper (as artists material), gouache (as artists material), pencil, ink, two-part work, drawing (Art object type)
  • Details
    Artist
    Pablo Bronstein (1977 - )
    Title
    Magnificent Rural Outbuilding
    Date
    2010
    Medium
    Two-part work: pencil, ink and gouache on paper
    Dimensions
    diptych - height: 32.50 cm, width: 25.50 cm each
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Herald Street, March 2011
    Inscription
    1 - cr: Perspective View / Showing the / Magnificent Rural / Outbuilding which / houses Poultry as well / as a potting shed and / gardening tools at / the gardens of / lawson Park in / Cumbria ; 2 - bc: Design Elevation for the Facade to a Magnificent Rural Outbuilding in the / Late Regency Style, as is erected at Lawson Park in Cumbria, for the housing / of Poultry, as well as provide shelter for a diverse manner of gardening / implements, such as wheelbarrows, forks, rakes, etc etc stc, and for the / housing of a potter's wheel and clay bin
    Provenance
    Herald Street, London
    GAC number
    18392