Toby Paterson
dal 27/1/2012 al 28/4/2012
Segnalato da
27/1/2012
Toby Paterson
Le Grand Cafe' Centre d'art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire
Quotidian Aspect. Paterson's works (wall paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures) evoke the architecture of post-war towns, with their ration of the anonymous buildings that the artist has a particular affection for.
A key figure in the British art scene that appeared in Glasgow a decade ago, Toby Paterson
willingly describes himself as a landscape painter. His works (wall paintings, drawings, collages,
sculptures) nevertheless exclusively evoke the architecture of post-war towns, with their ration of
the anonymous buildings that the artist has a particular affection for.
Influenced by his skateboarding, which allowed him to develop a hypersensitivity to textures and
structures, and by his in-depth knowledge of modernist architects, he proposes a reading of the
city that, even if it has sources in images and in documents, always evinces a personal
interpretation. His universe thus exhibits a singular mix of poetic abstraction and physical
experience, a voyage at the whim of ‘suspended’ spaces. His work invents a complex space-time,
both referential and cleared of all material constraints, and draws a mental landscape in perpetual
reconfiguration.
Opening on januray 27th, 6 :30
Le Grand Café – Centre for contemporary art
Place des Quatre z’Horloges – Saint-Nazaire
Open from Tuesday to Sunday : 2 p.m / 7 p.m
And Wednesday : 11 a.m to 7 p.m
Free entry