Simon Patterson (B. 1967)

Time Machine

Details

Simon Patterson (B. 1967)
Time Machine
MDF and text
4 x 35 x 1.22in. (11.9 x 89 x 3cm.)
Executed in 1995
Other work by this artist is included in 'Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection', currently on view at the Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.

Exhibited

London, Hayward Gallery, 'Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 1980s and 1990s', April-May 1990.

Lot Essay

Simon Patterson's distinctive working methods involve taking an ordering system that exists within the world and applying it to another set of subjects. "In 'Time Machine', he uses the mechanism of rule to imply a number of possible combinations of relationships. Numbers have been replaced by categories of figures from the Old Testament, philosophers and Darwinian species, so the random combinations reverse the function of the original calculus, providing no answers, only apparent chaos." (A. Gallagher, 'Dimensions Variable' , London 1997, p.95.)

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