Patrons: private view and curator's tour of 'Zaha Hadid'
Friday 3 February 2017 9 - 10am
Serpentine Galleries, London
Free, booking required. Architecture Patrons only.
Join us for this very special private viewing and curator's tour of rarely seen paintings and drawings by the pioneering and visionary architect, Zaha Hadid (1950-2016).
Zaha Hadid’s Serpentine Sackler Gallery exhibition was first conceived with the artist before her passing and presents her rarely seen early drawings and paintings, influenced by Malevich, Tatlin and Rodchenko. The selected works focus on the period preceding her first built architectural project, the Vitra Fire Station in Germany (1990-1993), as well as her most recent sketchbooks. Taking inspiration from Constructivism, Suprematism and the Russian avant-garde, Hadid used painting and drawing as a design tool, and abstraction as an investigative structure for her architectural proposals.
The exhibition will take place in the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, an extension completed in 2013 and one of Zaha Hadid Architects’ first permanent buildings in central London.