Diann Bauer | Use & Mention | Stephen Laurence Gallery, 26 January - 26 February 2010

Previews Tuesday 26 January, 6-8pm

Curated by John Chilver

An exhibition about collage, featuring works by:

Shahin Afrassiabi / Jesse Ash / Diann Bauer /

Simon Bedwell / Vanessa Billy / Juan Bolivar /

Adam Burton / Tiago Carneiro da Cunha / John Chilver /

Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth / Stuart Cumberland / Hans-Christian Dany /

Annabel Frearson / Freee Babak Ghazi / Ghosts Eat Mirrors /

Jeremy Glogan / Luke Gottelier / Thomas Gruenfeld /

Gerard Hemsworth / Yuichi Higashionna / Emma Holmes /

Gareth Jones / Kerstin Kartscher / Pil & Galia Kolleciv /

Brighid Lowe / Goshka Macuga / Ellen Makh /

Daniel Pettitt / Gunter Reski / Martha Rosler /

Michael Schultze / Heidi Sill / DJ Simpson /

Jack Strange / Michael Stubbs / John Timberlake /

Erika Verzutti / Yonatan Vinitsky / Carla Wright /

The appearance of collage in early twentieth-century art marked an immense

alteration in visual experience. In collage, space and time could be

sliced and spliced in ways previously unavailable to photography or

painting; collage could be additive (placement, juxta-position,

com-position) or subtractive (cut, removal).

Although mainstream visual technologies have today normalized methods that

originated in collage, and although the becoming-orthodox of appropriation

and post-production have homogenised the terrain it traverses, collage

nonetheless still empowers tactics that play at de-skilling while invoking

intimacy, interrupted passivity and subtractive force. A reliance on

dramatic juxtaposition was characteristic of classic modernist collage, as

in Hannah Höch's virtuoso works of the 1920s and 30s. Whatever their

variety, contemporary applications of collage increasingly tend to forego

the method of explosive juxtaposition, often favouring instead an

intricate and implosive thinking.

The exhibition offers a broad selection of current collage-related

activity. Most of the works are on paper but also included are texts and

video. Collage is here understood as a transferable and mutable apparatus

of subtractive plasticity.

Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court,

Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich, London SE10 9LS

For further information please contact the gallery curator David Waterworth:

tel: 0208 331 8260

Gallery Opening Times:

Mon - Fri 10am-5pm. Sat 11am-4pm

Published: Jan 24, 2010, 2:29:47 pm