Marina City in London art fair

October 9, 2012 – (Above) The Forum, a digitally altered image created in 2012 by 31-year-old London artist Tom Leighton. It will be among contemporary art images on display this weekend at this year’s Multiplied, an art fair hosted by Christie’s, the fine art auction house in London. (Click on image to view larger version.)

Besides Chicago’s Marina City, the image combines real architecture from other cities. Last year, in an image displayed at Artropolis, Leighton placed Marina City between what is now the Kemper Building and the Statue of Liberty. Familiar cities in Leighton’s works, according to the art magazine Art of England, “are deconstructed and retranslated, disregarding the constraints of physical possibilities, akin to a memory.”

Leighton is represented by The Cynthia Corbett Gallery of London.