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Toby Paterson, Black Axonometric 1, 2006.
Toby Paterson makes paintings, reliefs and constructions which explore the relationship between abstraction and reality. He has a keen interest in post-war Modernist architecture which he deconstructs both materially and politically, developing a practice in which some works are almost understandable as architecture, while others are expressions of purely abstract form. "The forms and ideas inherent in architecture inspire my work. I'm particularly interested in the post-war reinvention of cities under the influence of Modernism and am intrigued by what the cultural outcome of that influence has been. Living and working in Glasgow, a city at the heart of the British experience of this phenomenon, my continuing engagement with such a perpetually changing context has informed a broader view about the spaces we inhabit. In a gallery situation, my installations of painting and sculpture allude to existing sites, aestheticised approaches to the construction of architectural space and the social and political motivations responsible for creating the built environment. Whether relating directly to a specific location or representing a hybrid of real and imagined space, the work...
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