Dulwich Picture Gallery, to 11 May 2014 The career of David Hockney RA has been notable for his work across a broad range of artistic techniques and processes: from
the photocollages of the 1980s to the recent iPad drawings, unveiled here at the RA back in 2012.
Hockney's involvement with the depiction of space is traced in this exhibition from the 1960s, through
his photocollages of the 1980s and the Grand Canyon paintings of the late 1990s, to the recent paintings of East Yorkshire, many of which have been made en plein air.
My favorite discovery was a suite of colorful bar graphs charting women's labor productivity, souped up with
photocollages of climbing high - rises and satisfied workers: a rather more inventive kind of data journalism.
«They were inventive with it,» he says of the designers» witty transformation of Gravity's Rainbow — his 1999
photocollage of leaves, pills, and flowers — into printed necklaces on a dress of black silk.
Not exact matches
Yayoi Kusama, Self - Obliteration (Net Obsession Series)(c. 1966),
photocollage on paper, 8 ″ x 10 ″; courtesy The Whitney Museum
of American Art
Jane Hammond conducts inquiries into the construction
of meaning through her paintings, printmaking, and
photocollages.
An untitled
photocollage c. 1975 — 76 sees a ghostly hand against a black background above an overflowing basket propped up by a silhouetted cutaway; the totem - like form makes the organic uncanny, which is one
of the artist's prevailing motifs.
In the mid-19th century, a sudden cultural mix
of early photography, science à la Darwin and fantasy by way
of Lewis Carroll fueled an ironic response from certain educated Victorian ladies, whose pastimes included scrapbook diaries, parlor games (such as exquisite corpse) and — as on vivid display at the Met —
photocollaged family albums.
The resulting photographs and
photocollages reveal Albers's innovative, if understudied, approach to photography and also underscore the importance
of seriality within his overall body
of work.
Through paint, collage, and sculpture, she is locating herself within three histories she has inherited —
of being black,
of being a woman, and
of being an artist working within the largely white, chauvinistic modernist vocabulary
of photocollage and abstract painting.
This publication reproduces each
of the
photocollages Albers made at the Bauhaus, presenting the scope
of this achievement for the first time.
The catalogue reproduces nearly 200 works, including 12 works in glass produced between 1921 and 1932; nearly 30 photographs and
photocollages, many
of which are previously unpublished; a selection
of woodcuts and gouaches, and several items
of furniture; the seven record sleeves Albers designed for Command Records (with their classic gatefold sleeves, which Albers helped to conceive); the paintings for which he is so well known; and a selection
of theoretical texts.
Arguably the least familiar aspect
of his extraordinary career was his inventive engagement with photography, only widely known after his death, including his production
of approximately 70
photocollages that feature photographs he made at the Bauhaus between 1928 and 1932.
In October 2006, the National Portrait Gallery in London organised one
of the largest ever displays
of Hockney's portraiture work, including 150 paintings, drawings, prints, sketchbooks, and
photocollages from over five decades.
The
photocollages form something
of a gateway to the show's last three exuberant galleries and the expansive landscapes, interiors and, most recently, views
of the intensely blue wraparound terrace above the pool and garden
of Mr. Hockney's Los Angeles home.
The highlight
of this work is undoubtedly the
photocollages featuring photographs he made at the Bauhaus between 1928 and 1932.
Seductive and seduced bodies
of the past, absurdly rendered in the
photocollage Circa ’87 (2013), in which Leckey has cut - and - pasted himself, stripped down to his shorts and sat at a snare drum, as an oddly scaled - down figure surrounded by an admiring throng
of big - haired 1980s ladies.
In these
photocollages Titova uses photographs
of social protesters rejected by mass media for which they were originally made and photographs taken by the military in conflict sites to question the relationships between the lived environments, institutional power and the production
of identity through the optics
of historical narration.
If you're looking for an excuse to get out
of the house, MoMA is showing Nan Goldin's The Ballad
of Sexual Dependency and an exhibition
of Josef Albers» Bauhaus - era experimentations with
photocollage.
The Museum
of Modern Art announces the release
of One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus
Photocollages of Josef Albers, the first publication to reproduce all 70
photocollages created by Josef Albers at the Bauhaus using photographs he made between 1928 and 1932.
Yet Albers's engagement with modernist photography remained largely hidden until after his death, and it is only now that the entire series
of unique
photocollages the artist produced at the famed art school — before he and his wife fled Nazi Germany for the US — has been published together, many for the first time.
One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus
Photocollages of Josef Albers celebrated the landmark acquisition and the publication
of an accompanying catalogue which focuses exclusively on this deeply personal and inventive aspect
of Albers's work and makes many
of the
photocollages available for the first time.
Featured works include Ivekovic's historic single - channel videos, performances and sculptural installations as well as a selection from Double Life (1975 - 76), her celebrated series
of 64
photocollages.
Como Comiendo Mamon, 1993
Photocollage One
of a kind Image size: 10 in.
Also on view at the AGO this summer: Drama and Desire: Artists and the Theatre, opening June 19; Playing with Pictures: The Art
of Victorian
Photocollage, opening June 5; and The Storyteller, opening June 9.
It is worth noting here that Barbara Kruger was already using illustrations she found in mass media geared to a wide audience for her b & w
photocollage works at the start
of her career in the 1970s.
Alongside a host
of her celebrated
photocollages from the 1980s and a four - channel video work
of 2004, she is for the most part presenting new installations in Bregenz that have been especially conceived for the unique Kunsthaus architecture.
Works like Untitled (Tripod series)
of 1975 (E1182) and the 1973
photocollage Untitled (E2338) clearly harken back to the anthropomorphic machines
of dada and surrealism.
One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus
Photocollages of Josef Albers, a new installation featuring 16
photocollages, is on view at The Museum
of Modern Art, while the book
of the same title by Sarah Hermanson Meister, with 140 pages and 120 colour and duotone illustrations, is published by MoMA and by Thames & Hudson outside the US and Canada.
His commentary on Cambodia's current «landscape» is the 10 - meter - long
photocollage Empire, a monochrome panorama
of temple ruins which dominates STPI's main gallery.
Based in America for much
of his adult creative life, his reputation rests on his fine drawing skills, as well as his innovative work in the field
of printmaking and
photocollage.
in her latest exhibition, which consists
of a new installation, two video projects, and highlights
of her early
photocollages.
Albers on film 3 January MoMA New York celebrates Josef Albers» extensive, relatively unknown
photocollage work in «One and One is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages
of Josef Albers».
Experimenting with photography in the mid-1970s, Hockney went on to create his famous
photocollages with Polaroids and snapshot prints arranged in a grid formation, pushing the two - dimensionality
of photography to the limit, fragmenting the monocular vision
of the camera and activating the viewer in the process.
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