A new London event to put in your diary this month is Paving Space, an unconventional encounter between maths, art and skateboarding.
This exhibition presents film, sculpture and photography, documenting a series of performances, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Institute of Contemporary Art of Singapore and Sainte-Croix Museum in Poitiers.
The project originated with Carhartt WIP approaching Isle Skateboards to work on a collaborative collection. Isle, which started in 2013, has always prided itself on artist-led, conceptually driven ideas.
Carhartt WIP and Isle could think of no one better than artist and fellow skateboarder, Raphaël Zarka.
When they approached Zarka, he had been researching the work of 19th Century mathematician Arthur Moritz Schoenflies. Schoenflies – a master of geometry and crystallography – had developed his own three dimensional models that specifically captivated Zarka’s attention, inspired with their sculptural potential.
The exhibition invites you to view Zarka’s large scale reconstructions of Schoenflies’ models re-appropriated in a way never imagined before.
Date: Thursday, November 17th at 6pm-10pm.
Address: Protein Studios, 31 New Inn Yard, EC2A 3EY London, United Kingdom
