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© TRACEY EMIN. All rights reserved, DACS 2013. Photo: KERRY RYAN.
José Chávez Morado, 'Carnaval en Huejotzingo (Carnival in Huejotzingo)' (detail), 1939. Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 96.5 cm. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Loyal Davis © DACS 2013.
Sidney Nolan, 'Ned Kelly' (detail), 1946. Enamel paint on composition board. 90.8 x 121.5 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Gift of Sunday Reed, 1977.
Richard Rogers Partnership, Lloyd’s of London, 1978-86. © Richard Bryant / arcaidimages.com & Piano + Rogers, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1971-77. © Francois Le Diascorn / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
15 February 2011
At the Geological Society, Piccadilly
Antony Gormley RA Photo by Oak Taylor Smith 
The Hayward Gallery Photo by Richard Bryant / arcaidimages.com
As part of the lecture series ‘Critic’s Choice: London’s Most Important Building’, sculptor Royal Academician Antony Gormley has nominated The Hayward Gallery as London’s most important building due to its extraordinary skull-like character. He sees it as ‘a complete structure in which all the load-bearing pillars, lintels and floors are modulated into a building that is cast in one piece. It becomes like a piece of sculpture, like an Eduardo Chillida cast alabaster block, out of which spaces have been hacked and hewn.’
Respondents include: Piers Gough RA and Christopher Woodward.
6.30–8pm; followed by a drink
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