Powder Blue Orthogonal Pavilion by Toby Paterson
Portavilion is a portable public art project that will occupy a trail of high profile parks across Central London throughout the summer 2008. A group of highly acclaimed international artists will present their own temporary ‘pavilion’ specially created for a park environment as a celebration of London’s most treasured public spaces.
British artist Toby Paterson’s Powder Blue Orthogonal Pavilion will be situated in Potters Fields Park from 5 July – 28 September 2008. Responding to the adjacent, iconic architecture of Tower Bridge, the GLA building and HMS Belfast, Paterson inserts another strongly graphic form – a wooden, modular structure - into the “town-scape” of the Southbank. The pavilion will be fabricated using Kerto from FinnForest.
Toby Paterson‘s appreciation of architectural forms and structures has developed from skate boarding around abandoned concrete buildings. Inspired by the language of Modernist architecture Paterson’s Powder Blue Orthogonal Pavilion will introduce a new feature into the multifaceted ‘town-scape’ of the Southbank. 
The pavilion is less a discrete ‘building' and more a sculptural collection and arrangement of planes that allow light and space to flow through and between them, setting it one remove from the many functional structures that surround Potters Fields Park.
A summer programme of Portavilion Events has been devised for each pavilion site, including artist talks, dance performances, guided walks and workshops for young people. A Portavilion Symposium will take place at the Greater London Authority, City Hall, London on Friday 18th July 2008 produced in partnership with the Design Museum and Gunpowder Park. The Portavilion project coincides with the London Festival of Architecture 2008.
Further information about the Portavilion Events programme will follow soon….
Web: www.portavilion.com
For press information or images please contact UP Projects on t: 020 7033 3568 e: emma@upprojects.com
Location: Potters Fields Park
From: Saturday, 05 July 2008
To: Sunday, 28 September 2008
More >>