Nathan Sawaya’s ‘Art of the Brick’ exhibition has come to London in the form of a giant playroom capturing and animating youth, art and creativity through LEGO bricks. Beginning with replicas of classic art works such as Rodin’s sculptures and iconic paintings such as Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earing, Sawaya projects LEGO as a material with the ability to match such works. The sense of endless possibility in creativity is present throughout the exhibition (even right to the very end where a LEGO playroom featured, allowing the public to create their own LEGO sculptures)
A favourite from the exhibition was ‘Swimmer’ (above) with the use of lighting, the sculpture exudes fluidity like water itself, which is pretty remarkable considering the piece is made up of small LEGO bricks. What i find most impressive about Sawaya’s work is how he takes these geometric forms and pieces them together to create human expression and emotion; proving LEGO bricks to be a tool for opening up to limitless creative expression.
Illica 