Agustin Coll Exhibition

August 2024

THE CHARACTER OF THE METROPOLIS
An exhibition by Agustin Coll
1-31 August

Agustin is interested in the narrative and expressive capacity of architecture, along with
how it echoes the history and identity of our ever-changing built environment.
This exhibition brings together a selection of his playfully subversive technical drawings,
where cinemas in bowler hats hang alongside schematics of sword-wielding museums,
bringing life into fabricated structures that walk the line between the android and the
anthropoid.

These metropolitan characters appear to him during his exploratory walks and cycle
rides in his adopted home of London, and are influenced by land art, video games and
avant-garde architectural groups such as Archigram.

Born in Barcelona, Agustin moved to London in 2008 to study at Camberwell College of
Arts and has lived in South East London for the majority of that time, with a studio in
nearby Loughborough Junction.

His architectural art has been featured in the Architects’ Journal, shortlisted for a World
Illustration Award, longlisted for the prestigious Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, and
will be on display at the Barbican Library in 2025