LONDON.- Over 40 new works by emerging artist Hormazd Narielwalla will be featured in his second solo exhibition in the UK presented by Saatchi Art. At the Foundry Gallery in London until 10 June, Body Architecture brings together large-scale collages inspired by vintage tailoring patterns.

Hormazd Narielwalla’s art is in its essence a meditation on the human condition. His unique collages take as their starting point the classic brown paper of discarded Savile Row tailoring patterns and reinterpret the human form building on the legacy of Cubism. Narielwalla transforms these sartorial blueprints into vital, contemporary artworks, breathing life into obsolete patterns created for a person long dead. Freed from function these patterns can be seen as abstract drawings in their own right and, like architecture, as outlines for spaces to contain and define the human body.

In these new works Narielwalla explores this connection with architecture, inspired by Le Corbusier, who in turn looked to the buildings of classical architects such as Vitruvius, in appreciating the relationship between the proportions of the human body and architecture, both aesthetically and functionally.

“For this new body of work I wanted to explore the relationship between the physical body and architectural landscapes with particular reference to India where I grew up,” said Narielwalla.

“Tailoring patterns are geometrical abstractions that represent the body in sections, not unlike the modular system of Le Corbusier’s buildings in Chandigarh. The artworks become a metaphor for our bodies and the architectural spaces we live in.”

Rebecca Wilson, Chief Curator at Saatchi Art, commented: "We are thrilled to be presenting Hormazd’s new exhibition in London at a gallery, fittingly, run by Le Lay Architects. His new works bring to the fore the spaces in between things, on both a literal and metaphorical level, causing us to think about our relationship to the environment around us and the structures that define us."

Body Architecture brings together new large-scale works in three of Narielwalla’s ongoing series: collages based on 1970s luxury lingerie designs (‘Lady Gardens’), antique magazine inserts (‘Le Petit Echo de la Mode’) and 1920s tailoring manuals (‘Hungarian Peacocks’).

The show will be on view at the Foundry Gallery until 10 June, 2016.