Flayed Stone III by Peter Randall-Page, normally located on the grass at the back of Coventry House, is being loaned to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield.  Flayed Stone III will be part of the Peter Randall-Page exhibition, his most extensive to date.  The exhibition starts on the 27th June and runs through to January 2010.

‘Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture’ This major exhibition has recently opened at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, providing a new assessment of the achievements and legacy of one of the foremost figures in the modernist architectural tradition.   

The exhibition draws attention to the breadth of Le Corbusier’s talents, not only was he an original and celebrated architect whose work ranged from individual domestic dwellings to large-scale urban planning schemes, he was also an influential thinker and writer and a painter, engraver, print-maker, muralist, sculptor and furniture designer. 

The University art collection includes a set of ten colour lithographs by Le Corbusier which show an affinity with the work of Fernand Léger with whom he collaborated in the 1920s with the aim of creating a new industrial aesthetic to incorporate art, architecture and mass production technology. The lithographs date from the 1960s and were purchased by the University in 1968.  They are on display in the Ramphal Building, on the first floor balcony. 

The Barbican exhibition, organised in conjunction with the RIBA Trust, runs until 14 May 2009.