- Venue
- Library Gallery
- Starts
- Thursday, February 28, 2008
- Ends
- Sunday, March 9, 2008
- Address
- Edwards Lane (off Church Street) Stoke Newington London N16 OJ
- Location
- London
An exhibition of work by 15 visual artists responding to the possibilities and the rich history of pattern. Pattern is the organising force uniting the work but within that framework, a wide range of possible approaches are explored in a variety of media. Pattern is as old as time. As a means of ordering the visual it has consistently proved itself capable of reinvention and reinvigoration. Now it underpins much of our visual experience, not least due to the ubiquity of digital imagery, with the world mediated by unperceived patterns of pixels. Pattern occurs in representation in surprising and unexpected ways as this exhibition demonstrates. As curator Simone Pereira Hind explains: ‘Pattern is fascinating for its contradictory nature. It has the power to mesmerise or to utterly fade into the background. It can entice or repel, create a sense of order or disorder.’ The grid, that most pared down form of pattern, was a paradigm of modernism, standing for, among other things, order, calm and the rational. Nowadays its structure provides an opportunity for play, exuberance and chance. Pattern is just as likely to be chaotic, toying with the irrational and flirting with decoration.
