ZAHA HADID: EARLY PAITINGS AND DRAWINGS

It is not necessary to introduce this person. Zaha Hadid - the women who conquer man's world, the icon, amazing architect, pioneer and visionary. Her buildings are well known around the world. But she was also an abstract artist, what I could discover by attending exhibition of her works. "Zaha Hadid: early painting and drawings" is organised by Serpentine Gallery in London.

Zaha Hadid was Iraq born arcitect who spend most of her life in UK. Thus, she is known as a British architect. She was the first woman who get the Pizker Architecture Prize in 2004. She also receive the most prestigious British architectural awards. She was called as a "Queen of the curve" because she was creating expressive, fluid forms. Mother of parametricism and icon of neo-futurysm. Zaha Hadid suprised me once again by her work.

The exhibition takes placed in Serpentine Saclary Gallery. The building has special meaning. Namely, the extension to the gallery is one of Zaha Hadid Arhitects first permanent building in central London. The perfect place for the event.

The show focuses on Hadid's early works from 1970s to early 1990s, before her first building - Vitra Fire Station - was erected. I am not an art critic, so I do not have enought courage to share my opinion about the pieces. The most of information I found on www.zaha-hadid.com. Nevertheless, I would like to take you for a walk trough the gallery.

The exebition is opened by "Metropolis" from 1988, technic: acrylic on canvas.

The paintings shows London as a patchwork of a villages, which have evolved and expanded over country. But instead of evenly distributed, these different metropolitan centres now establish new focal point. The red color screams exasperation with the sprawling mess of the city.

Another view of London shows London 2066 from 1991, technic: acrylic on cartridge paper.

A large-scale painting for British Vogue - proposing a radical "shake-up" of the metropolis in both diagrammatic and pictorial terms - a reinvention of open spaces, rail, road, and water networks, air routes and borough configuration - vivid brushstrokes "animating" new proposals, new possibilities, new experiments in urbanism.

Next piece shows the vision of city is Berlin 2000 from 1988, technic: acrylic on cartridge paper.

It is a speculation on the future of Berlin, presented before the fall of the Wall in 1989. In this reimagined Berlin, the wall-zone become a linear park lined with challenging new geometries.

The Vision of Madrid from 1992 takes big area of the show, technic: colour print on white foamex.

Another works on exibition:

Malevich's Tektonik from 1976-77, technic: acrylic on cartridge paper.

Concept and vision for fourteen-level hotel on the Hungerfort Bridge accross Thames river in London - linking 19th century buildings on the north shore with the Brutalist South Bank Complex. Inspired by the Russian Suprematist movement and utilizing the tektonik to create new possibilities for interior space.

Grand Buildings from 1984, technic: acrylic on canvas.

A proposed reinvention of London's most famous square - celebrating the dynamic possibilities of the urban landscape.

The world (89 Degrees), from 1983, technic: acrylic on canvas.

Exited by the possibilities for building created by emerging technologies and ever-changing lifestyles. Zaha Hadid produced a single image which effectively summarises her seven - years journey into the 'uncharted' reaches architecture while working at the Architectural Association. The painting articulates a need to reinvestigate and extend the untested experiments of modernism.

The Peak from 1982-83

Proposal for an architectural landmark to stand apart above congestion and intensity of Hong Kong - centred on the creation of a 'man-made polished granite mountain'.

Very valuable for me was to see the sketch books of Zaha Hadid. If anyone has went trough design process even one time, knows that the very first sketches are not for public view. It is kind of a diary for an artist. Pay attention to the way to high pen - always ready to use.

The show is closing by experimental Virtual Reality (VR) which offers dynamic and immersive insight into the works of Hadid's paintings. The experience is delivered with help of Google Art & Culture.

I hope you enjoyed our walk and even if you are not in London right now, you felt the vibe of exibition.

Today is the last day of exibition, so put your shoes on and run to not be late!