RE-STUCK curated by Tony Campbell
Sat, Sep 14
|U.N.O. gallery
Opening reception 6-9pm Sat 14th Sept 2019
ON VIEW
Sep 14, 2019, 12:00 PM – Sep 29, 2019, 11:00 AM
U.N.O. gallery, 2429 St Claude Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117, USA
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them. Max Ernst
Our world is so full of images, it is totally understandable to feel reluctant to add yet more, better still the urge to collect, curate and collage from this image mountain. To tease out new associations, conjure new meanings, setting one image against another, to tear and cut an image out of its time and place to become present in the now.
Although collage history makes a case for China 200BC being the birth place of the medium, modern collage’s invention is attributed to Braque and Picasso’s Analytical Cubism circa 1910. Focusing on media rather than narrative, pasting shape and texture to emphasize flatness. Dadaist Kurt Schwitters used collage like bricks and mortar, building an image, plane by plane. In contrast, in…