Private Equity Commissions

The Details

*Consultancy has managed and developed the contemporary art collection for this private equity company’s Mayfair office since 2013. In 2020, *Consultancy developed a series of site-specific commissions for the company’s new premises, with  works from Angelika Loderer, Claire Hooper and Abigail Reynolds.

Angelika Loderer, Untitled (ZZZ), 2019
Working in the spaces surrounding a grand internal staircase, Loderer's site-specific sculpture works with the secondary materials involved in the casting process. Usually discarded after its use has been expended in the foundry, the moulding sand the artist chooses to work with becomes the medium for her fragile sculptures. Made from valueless waste materials and apparently ephemeral, the sculptures sit in opposition to the opulent permanence of the staircase.

Claire Hooper, Untitled, 2020
Hooper approaches the multi-storeyed building as a whole with her commission, deliberately linking incongruous spaces like the staff canteen and the boardroom through her series of murals applied to staircases and internal columns. Working with a palette of colours inspired by London, Hooper applies several painting techniques for the commission, including airbrushing, blowing and stencilling as well as a few visual tricks like the Roman ‘unswept floor’, in which the detritus of a banquet was recreated in mosaic to the delight of guests.

Abigail Reynolds, This Our London, 2020
The title of the work is taken from a 1948 book of the same name, from which images have been taken to populate the alcove spaces. Establishing formal and conceptual connections with the office and its position in Marylebone, the two pieces extend architectural details in the original photographs to meet design elements in the building’s glass and fretwork. The images are distorted by the layers of glass that contain them, obscuring the documented architecture and creating confusion about how old the photographs may be.