Curated by Marine Pagès & T. van der Stegen
Opening Thursday March 4, 2010 / exhibition until the April 10, 2010
--- Justin Mortimer, untitled 2009, numeric collage, 29,7x21cm
(courtesy de l'artiste)
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CUT is an exhibition dedicated to collage. It aims to highlight the perennity of this technique and encourage discussion on the subject of modern and contemporary collage.
Whether collages use existing images or materials, continuity may be observed in the creative process which systematically deconstructs and reconstructs images or sound. Most artists go about this “assembling” process with no intention of hiding it. But although resources - numeric or not - for collages are now found in greater abundance, the contemporary nature of collages may rest more solidly on content that form. For despite occasional references to pre-war works (dada and surrealism in particular), narrative contents relate closely to the world we live in today.
By gathering the works of 8 artists, the exhibition CUT highlights the importance of this technique which took off almost a century ago and continues to raise interest.
Whether collages use existing images or materials, continuity may be observed in the creative process which systematically deconstructs and reconstructs images or sound. Most artists go about this “assembling” process with no intention of hiding it. But although resources - numeric or not - for collages are now found in greater abundance, the contemporary nature of collages may rest more solidly on content that form. For despite occasional references to pre-war works (dada and surrealism in particular), narrative contents relate closely to the world we live in today.
By gathering the works of 8 artists, the exhibition CUT highlights the importance of this technique which took off almost a century ago and continues to raise interest.