Sunday, October 16, 2005




"Simon Patterson
[Turner Prize] Shortlisted: 1996
Patterson is fascinated by the information which orders our lives. He humorously dislocates and subverts sources of information such as maps, diagrams and constellation charts; one of his best known works is The Great Bear, in which he replaced the names of stations on the London Underground map with names of philosophers, film stars, explorers, saints and other celebrities. By transforming authoritative data with his own associations he challenges existing rationales."

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/history/patterson.htm

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