Ella Garvey, Marina Iglesias, Lorena Lohr, Lily Macrae, Chris Oh, Aniela Preston, Samo Shalaby, Becky Tucker and Rosa-Johan Uddoh
The exhibition title refers less to its implied mathematical specifics and more generally to Western art and thought of the sixteenth-century, particularly to the values of proportion, beauty, harmony, rationality and the wonder of sacred patterns in the natural world as laid out by notorious humanists such as Vitruvius and Alberti.
‘The golden ratio’ has been a source of fascination throughout the history of art and architecture from Japanese artist Hokusai, to modernist architect Le Corbusier, and this exhibition demonstrates a return to beauty and harmony, revealing a search for order to contrast the discord that is so prevalent in modern life.
