The reticence of warehouses and the opulence of banks. An interior after the Byzantine-influenced Italian Gothic manner of the Bristol Byzantine, 2023, by Giles Round.
One of a series of commissions for the transformation of Bristol Beacon, commissioned by the Bristol Music Trust and Bristol City Council.
Giles Round has created an architectural installation within the Atrium of the historic Lantern building.
Round says: “The artwork is integrated into the architecture of the Lantern space. My desire from the beginning was to embed the work into the fabric of the building.
“Following research into the history of the building and the extraordinary architecture of Bristol, specifically the Bristol Byzantine, the design references the polychromatic decoration used on the façade. It is in part a portrait of the building itself.”
Giles Round (b. London) is an artist currently living in St Leonards-on-Sea with more-than-human companion Philip Seymour Hoffman Round. Following a year spent in an imaginary relationship with late artist Félix González-Torres, Round fled London during the mass exodus. Round works across disciplines – including art, design and architecture – through a wide range of techniques and approaches. Often taking the form of long-term, open-ended projects in which exhibitions themselves become the medium, Round’s works have at times produced organisations and companies as artworks. Through these, the artist creates conceptual frameworks to interrogate the role of the artist as an agent of transformation. For example, Round’s ongoing work, The Art Direction of the Noguchi Museum (2018–) is an enquiry into the role an artist might play as an embedded part of institutional and design teams, but also of society’s infrastructures and organisations at large.
Field Art Projects were appointed by Bristol City Council to develop and deliver a series of artist commissions that play a key role in ensuring the iconic building is rejuvenated with artists’ voices at its heart, bringing the art of music-making to life in visual form. Field Art Projects worked with the Bristol Music Trust and their Design Team for the second phase of refurbishment of the Bristol Beacon.
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