Paintings and Drawings of Gordon Picken

Different places in the urban landscape trigger memories of a shared past. But buildings are not important just because they are buildings. Memories are attached to places because of the social and political meanings people link to their physical form and aesthetic beauty. These buildings, “are store houses for these social memories because streets, buildings, and patterns of settlement, frame the lives of many people and often outlast many lifetimes.” Individuals are able to make these specific connections with buildings because they see familiar characteristics in architecture.

Memory and Identity: Destruction and Rebuilding- Gregory Dowell 

Gordon Picken showing at The National Museum, Kragujevac, Serbia. His exhibition is entitled 'Drawing on Memory' and runs from 15th  - 30th September 2017.

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Gordon Picken's show 'Drawings' at the Balkan Bridges Gallery (Galerija Mostovi Balkana), Kragujevac, Serbia.
Night of the Museums, 16th May - 3 June 2015.