Simon Patterson
dal 7/6/2005 al 17/7/2005
Segnalato da
7/6/2005
Simon Patterson
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
High Noon. An exhibition encompassing a range of media including painting, wall drawing, installation, sound, sculpture and film. The show takes the form of two distinct but complementary presentations. A selection of early pieces can be seen alongside others not exhibited before in the UK and new work.
Ikon presents High Noon, a major exhibition by British artist Simon Patterson, encompassing a range of media including painting, wall drawing, installation, sound, sculpture and film. Organised in collaboration with The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, the show takes the form of two distinct but complementary presentations. A selection of early pieces can be seen alongside others not exhibited before in the UK and new work.
Nominated for the Turner Prize in 1996, Patterson has established an international reputation for work involving wordplay in order to manipulate notions of identification and classification. The artist links distinct categories or systems through analogy, with language playing a key role.
High Noon features Patterson’s seminal work The Great Bear, (1992). In this piece, the artist has substituted the names of the stations on the London Underground map with prominent figures from various walks of life. For example, the Northern Line is named after film actors, the Jubilee Line after footballers. This renaming reveals a complex range of associations, from the obvious to the absurd – some wittily apparent such as Leicester Square, at the centre of London’s theatre-land being changed to Laurence Olivier and the triangular interconnections of lines at Paddington replaced by Pythagoras. The Great Bear demonstrates Patterson’s fundamental proposition, whereby seemingly random logic is applied to subvert conventional thinking often manifested in the formats of maps, charts and diagrams.
A new commission, Time Piece is an evocative, beautifully shot video work. It features two fob watches swinging in and out of synchronisation, their motion taking place against soundtracks of alternate male and female breathing, increasingly urgent through physical exertion. The result is extremely erotic,
surprisingly, given the subject matter.
UGC will be hosting Time Piece, alongside selected main features, as part of the film programme. It will be shown with different movies each week. Please contact the box office for details. UGC Five Ways Cinema, Broad Street, Birmingham. Telephone 0121 643 0631. Daily, throughout June/July from Friday 3 June
As part of High Noon, Simon Patterson will also present Landskip, a series of coloured smoke grenades, detonated to produce a sequence of spectacular explosions. Plumes of green, blue, red, violet and yellow will dramatically animate the otherwise serene landscape of Winterbourne Botanic Garden. Landskip will take place on Tuesday 7 June, 3.30 - 5.00pm. Children FREE, adults £2. Winterbourne Botanic Garden, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham.
The exhibition is supported by The Henry Moore Foundation, The Elephant Trust and The Foyle Foundation.
Private view drinks sponsored by Beck's
Ikon Gallery
1 Oozells Square
Birndleyplace
Birmingham
B1 2HS