{"title":"Simon Patterson","description":"\u003cp\u003eSimon Patterson (born 1967, Leatherhead) is a British conceptual artist whose practice centres on the displacement of language and systems of classification. Studying at Goldsmiths College in the late 1980s, Patterson came to wide attention with \u003cem\u003eThe Great Bear\u003c\/em\u003e (1992), a lithograph that reproduces the London Underground map with station names replaced by the names of philosophers, saints, footballers, film stars and other figures — reorganising a familiar navigational system into an absurdist taxonomy of cultural authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work established the terms of a practice that has continued to explore what happens when one ordering system is substituted for another: star charts renamed after Italian painters, airline timetables rewritten with the names of comedians, football league tables replaced by historical figures. The substitution is always precise and the source always legible, which is what allows the displacement to register as both comic and unsettling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublications connected to Patterson’s practice — catalogues, artist books, and printed matter — are themselves often sites where language is reorganised, and where the gap between a system and its contents is made visible on the page.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"package-holiday-new-british-art-ophiuchus-collection-hydra-1997","title":"PACKAGE HOLIDAY: New British Art in the Ophiuchus Collection. Hydra Workshop, 1997","description":"\u003cp\u003eHydra, Greece: The Hydra Workshop, 1997. Exhibition catalogue published for \u003cem\u003ePackage Holiday: New British Art in the Ophiuchus Collection\u003c\/em\u003e, 26 July–30 September 1997, The Hydra Workshop, Hydra. Organised by Pauline Karpidas and Sadie Coles. Landscape softcover, staple-bound. Colour photographs and illustrations throughout. 21 × 15 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. Pronounced vertical handling crease through the wrappers, with rubbing, scattered surface marks, small abrasions and wear to the edges and corners. Light handling internally; complete and firmly bound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1997 Pauline Karpidas and Sadie Coles brought fifteen London-based artists to the Hydra Workshop, a former boat-repair space on the island’s harbour. \u003cem\u003ePackage Holiday\u003c\/em\u003e was their first exhibition there together and established the model for the annual programme that followed: artists, curators and galleries temporarily relocated to Hydra, with a publication produced for each presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition assembled Don Brown, Peter Doig, Tracey Emin, Angus Fairhurst, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Sarah Lucas, Paul Noble, Chris Ofili, Richard Patterson, Simon Patterson, Georgina Starr, Sam Taylor-Wood, Nicola Tyson and Gillian Wearing. Each artist was represented by a single work from the Ophiuchus Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue borrows the visual language of a holiday brochure: uninterrupted blue covers, panoramic views of Hydra, a row of packed suitcases and bright blue headings. Simon Patterson’s \u003cem\u003eThe Great Bear\u003c\/em\u003e faces Damien Hirst’s \u003cem\u003ePemoline\u003c\/em\u003e; Sam Taylor-Wood’s \u003cem\u003eFive Revolutionary Seconds IX\u003c\/em\u003e extends across the gutter; works by Richard Patterson and Georgina Starr appear as another unlikely pair. A private collection, a London gallery network and a generation of British artists are condensed into one small travel document.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cover wear now interrupts the continuous blue surface, leaving the catalogue with visible evidence of the movement its title proposed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Hydra Workshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53986478457170,"sku":"PACKAGEHOLIDAY-HYDRA-CAT-1997","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Brown_Dan._Doig_Peter._Emin_Tracey._Show_catalogue_Package_Holiday_Hydra._1997.jpg?v=1783901135"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/simon-patterson.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}