PATTERNS: BETWEEN OBJECT AND ARABESQUE

PATTERNS: BETWEEN OBJECT AND ARABESQUE presents artists who in the course of last 40 years have worked with patterns, either in the form of arabesques – organic, intricately ornamental patterns – or structured and simplified, geometric patterns where form and colour establish the work as an independent object. The exhibition starts from the simplified abstract paintings of the 1960=s and presents artists of the >Pattern & Decoration= movement as well as young contemporary artists who have shown a marked interest in working with patterns.

The >Pattern & Decoration= movement originated in the United States it the 1970=s. Their work was characterized by the use of patterns and ornamentation in combination with figurative and abstract signs. Sources of inspiration were Islamic and Maori architecture, quilting and Pop Art.

Artists in the exhibition: Franz Ackerman (D), Polly Apfelbaum (USA), Jesper Christiansen (DK), Poul Gernes (DK), Marianne Therese Grønnow (DK), Jim Hodges (USA), Valerie Jaudon (USA), Alfred Jensen (USA), Joyce Kozloff (USA), Robert Kushner (USA), Jonathan Lasker (USA), Konrad Lueg (D), Agnes Martin(CAN/USA), Lisa Milroy (UK), Robert Rauschenberg (USA), Frank Stella (USA), Fred Tomaselli (USA), Christopher Wool (USA).

The exhibition is produced by Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense.

|Press conference Friday 11 January at 12am | Opening on Saturday 12 January at 5pm.|

Publiacation:

ISBN 951-9355-74-X
Kuvioita: Objektin ja arabeskin välissä/ Patterns: Between objects and
arabesque
Pori Art Museum 12.2.-10.3.2002
Appendix to the exhibition catalogue
Translations by Tomi Snellman
Pori Art Museum Publications 56 / Pori Art Museum Publications 56