Music for Patterns

About

Kingsgate Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the show ‘Music for Patterns' by the homonymous group Music for Patterns. For their first UK solo exhibition, Music For Patterns have created a striking site-specific installation which plays with the viewers' perception of the architectural space. The gallery is entirely covered with vibrating optical patterns, which in some points protrude from the walls. These printed patterns are superimposed with yet another layer of slowly moving pattern projections and accompanied by a soundtrack especially created for this work. When entering this completely immersive environment, our senses are destabilised by the distorting illusions provoked by these images, prompting us to look for new ways of understanding the surrounding space. Music For Patterns's work is rooted on the Latin American legacies of geometric abstraction and experimentalism, employing current technologies to further these lines of research. Similarly to avantgarde artists such as Julio Le Parc, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Hélio Oiticica, invest geometry with life, expanding it to space and inviting viewers to have a purely sensorial experience.