A Sinister Form of Art ; Terry Grimley Reviews Exhibitions Inspired by Brutalist and Utopian Structures

Birmingham Post › December 18, 2007

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The twins Jane and Louise Wilson, born in Newcastle in 1967 and nominees for the Turner Prize in 1999, have an interest in places and structures which have outlived their eras.

Past projects have documented the Greenham Common air base, the former headquarters of the Stasi secret police in East Germany and a modernist pavilion designed by the artist Victor Pasmore for the new town of Peterlee - a symbol of postwar aesthetic aspirations which has now become a target for graffiti and various other antisocial activities.

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A Sinister Form of Art ; Terry Grimley Reviews Exhibitions Inspired by Brutalist and Utopian Structures

Sealander, an exhibition first shown in Zurich and now at Walsall's New Art Gallery, consists of a series of giant black-and- white photographs and a video installation, als...

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