Ade is a Nigerian born British Artist and a professional Architect based in Bristol. Ade is passionate about the spaces we inhabit and seeks to provide design and placemaking with a phenomenological approach. He seeks to explore this approach in his experiments with drawing and representation.
His work explores the relationship between 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional representations. Using the principle of the hypercube and the axonometric view, he explores the illusion of four-dimensional space. Sometimes the fourth dimension is time, sometimes it is space or sometimes movement. He sees the architectural drawing as an architectural artefact in of itself and therefore a place for endless spatial exploration.
Taking inspiration from Constructivist artists, Lissitzky’s Proun series and Theo Van Doesburg’s De Stijl movement, his current series present abstractions of famous architectural buildings. These drawings invite observers to view a 3 dimensional object in a different way.
In Reconstituted Planes – Villa Savoye 002, Ade is presenting a abstraction of le Corbusiers modernist masterpiece in an abstracted way. Through the extrusion of the first floor plan he uses layering and tracing to provide a re-intepretation and new way of reading the 3-dimensional form.