DAVID MABB

DAVID MABB

At the William Morris Gallery

Lloyd Park, Forest Road

Walthamstow, London, E17 4PP

020 8496 4390 

London, United Kingdom

27 June to 27 September 2015

Open Wednesday to Sunday, 10am - 5pm; free

William Morris and Russian artist El Lissitzky both wanted to change people’s lives through their art. Whilst Morris saw beauty in the past, Lissitzky sought a new visual language for the future.

In his latest work, British artist David Mabb celebrates the utopian ideas of these two men through their seminal book designs: Morris's Kelmscott Chaucer and Lissitzky's For the Voice, a revolutionary book of poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky considered one of the finest achievements in Russian avant-garde bookmaking.

Comprising 30 canvasses, Announcer takes over the gallery space, interweaving and contrasting the two designs so that Morris and Lissitzky's graphic s are never able to fully merge or separate.

William Morris Gallery: http://www.wmgallery.org.uk/

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‘Human Herbs’ – a song by Cold Hands & Quarter Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au-vyMtfDAs

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