Catalog of the double exhibition dedicated to Pattern & Decoration, in 2018 at MAMCO and in 2019 at the Consortium Museum.
The exhibition Pattern, Crime & Decoration presents an innovative American artistic movement that began in the mid-1970s and disappeared in the 1980s. Established by artists, often considered to be the last organized artistic movement of the 20th century, it chronologically overlaps the end of modernism and the beginning of postmodernism, rejecting the rigid precepts of modernist formalism and enthusiastically adopting decorative patterns and non-Western art forms. Deeply rooted in feminism, it includes many female artists, seeking to emphasize forms of art and crafts often overlooked and considered to belong to the domestic or decorative sphere, such as tapestry, patchwork, wallpapers or embroidery.