About this artwork
Paterson’s works do not deal with the specific. Much rather, they strive for a general approach to representing urban space by employing abstraction and the lack of detail. This is part of a group of works which centre on three cities which were severely damaged during the Second World War: Coventry, Rotterdam and Hamburg. Paterson is interested in the ideal, utopian nature of building designs and the gap that exists between the design and the actual building. In a similar vein, his works are simultaneously ‘realistic’ and clinically abstract.
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artist:Toby Paterson (born 1974) Scottish
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title:Hamburg Relief
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date created:2005
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materials:Acrylic on perspex
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measurements:60.00 x 60.00 x 6.00 cm
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credit line:Purchased with funds from the Cecil and Mary Gibson Bequest 2005
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accession number:GMA 4780
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Toby Paterson
Toby Paterson
Born and still based in Glasgow, Toby Paterson studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1991-95. In 2002 he won the Beck’s Futures Prize and in 2007 was commissioned by BBC Scotland to install an artwork outside their new headquarters at Pacific Quay, Glasgow. Mainly concerned with cities and...