Every summer, an artist is invited to create a Summer Pavilion for the space next to the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. The most striking one of recent years was the Jean Nouvel installation of 2010 which was a mad red perspex construction. The current one, however, is a little more subdued.
This year’s summer pavilion is the brainchild of Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei (who exhibited at Somerset House earlier in the year with his ‘Circle of Animals‘) and is co-designed by Herzog & de Meuron. The pavilion comprises a raised disk which has a thin layer of water on it reflecting the sky, with a subterranean cork-lined space beneath it where people can sit and relax in comfort – it’s very sheltered, which was a godsend today as once again it was pouring down with rain! As you can see from the photographs below it’s proving to be a very popular attraction.
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