Biography

Pattern Nostrum is an artistic duo formed by Chiara Lanzillotta and Stefano Roiz, both Tuscan, from Prato. She is a theatrical costume designer and painter, he is a graphic designer and creator. Together they have given life to a multiform visual art project, able to range from street art to design, but with a very clear and defined language, which uses abstract symbols and patterns (i.e. modules that can be repeated endlessly) as an alphabet. In 2015 they exhibited their first important work at the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art and have since continued their research and creativity around Italy, in private exhibition spaces or in public places.

Philosophy

Pattern Nostrum is a Visual Art project that combines painting with pattern design. A heterogeneous universe of images initially created on canvas, which lend themselves to various applications in the fields of Industrial Design, Fashion Design and Architecture. Pattern Nostrum investigates the nature of the image in contemporary society, reflecting on the dynamic tension that is created between original forms, or idolises their incessant repetition, multiplication and transformation, as a code of signs that can be replicated infinitely and never equal to itself. same. A transversal language that appropriates the combinatorial and decorative logic of the pattern to acquire its perceptive effectiveness and communicative potential. An ever-expanding library of mystical codes, forms that encourage contemplation, detaching from reality, directly involving the user. The expressive intent of Pattern nostrum is to create a deep relationship between user and work, capable of generating a sensitive experience that allows, transcending one’s condition as an individual inserted in the context of the “real”, the overcoming of physicality by producing a mystical tension towards concepts of absolute and mystery, seeking to reveal the fundamental structures of being.

Artwork in Castagno

The mural installation, gilded and three-dimensional, at the Pro Loco, on the wall next to the entrance door, is officially the first “new work” of art created in Castagno di Piteccio after years of inactivity regarding the artistic production of the Open-air museum (the collection stopped in 2004 with the sculpture Recomposition by Mauro Vaccai, located nearby, also at the Pro Loco, next to the steps that mark the entrance to the structure). The creative duo was invited by CCT-SeeCity for the Borgo Museo Festival 2019. On the occasion of the event, Pattern Nostrum actually created two works, one permanent and one temporary: Idolo and Stranianti. Idolo is the mural “in relief” made up of an element – an “idol” in fact – which is outlined as an amorphous presence, an “arche” which represents the seat of the mystery; the alienating effect produces an escape of the work from itself, deforming the usual vision of reality and physicality; the work is proposed in a golden chromatic guise representing the sun, light and the expansion of consciousness where the “divine” is located. Stranianti is instead the intervention of “land art” that coloured the olive garden at the Pro Loco throughout the summer of 2019, from June to October; the installation thus proposed a temporary modification of the natural landscape, offering the user new perspectives from which to observe an upheaval of the pre-existing context; the “alienating” effect produces a momentary isolation, a false and uncertain vision capable of producing new possibilities for contemplation and transformation.