{"id":2612,"date":"2014-02-03T01:03:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T06:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2014-02-03T11:36:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T16:36:01","slug":"return-splendour-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/return-splendour-london\/","title":{"rendered":"“Return to Splendour” at Marylebone Gardens, London"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Man<\/p>\n

5-8 February 2014
\nPreview: Wednesday, 5 February, 6-10PM<\/p>\n

“Return to Splendour”<\/p>\n

The exhibition heralds the resurgence of one of the most universal artistic expressions of the Modern Age: Collage!\u00a0“Return to Splendour” introduces the new stars of a genre that is advancing into the mainstream, whose practitioners call themselves Collagistes<\/em>!<\/p>\n

“Return to Splendour” features\u00a0a selection of traditional hand-cut and up-to-the-minute digital collage\u00a0by over 25 Collagistes from Europe, North America, and the United Kingdom,\u00a0showing new and recent works in four interconnected galleries.<\/p>\n

\"Shush!An Art for Our Time<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As often happens with significant art movements, they coincide with the styles of music and literature of the time. We are increasingly living in what’s referred to as a ‘mash-up’ culture and collage reflects this. For eons, people have been making collage, from hand paintings in caves, to Picasso and Braque and their contemporaries; Kurt Schwitters and the Dadaist Movement in the 1920’s; Cubism, Surrealism, Bauhaus and on to Richard Hamilton, Robert Rauschenberg and Sgt. Pepper fueling the Pop Art movement and shaping the imagery of the 1960s.<\/p>\n

An Art for Art’s Sake<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

In the 1970s on the White City Estate, a little Caribbean boy, who loved his mum very much, used to annoy her a bit: Compulsively, he’d cut out pictures of beautiful African-American women from the pages of her Ebony<\/em>\u00a0magazine! She said, “Why you a-cut out de pictures dem?\u00a0 Look ‘pon me Ebony<\/em>! Wha’ you ah do?\u00a0 Artwork….!? Alright, show me when you\u2019re done!”<\/p>\n

In later life, collage became a great consolation: When things came apart, he’d retreat into making collages. (This is also true of the well-known British street artist Pure Evil! He is a Collagiste: Collage set him back on the road to success, after his first fruitless efforts to establish himself in the art world.)<\/p>\n

Collage: It is its own reward!<\/p>\n

A Tale of Unholdbackable Artistic Expression<\/b><\/p>\n

When asked, “When did you make your first collage?” Petra Lea, showing in “Return to Splendour”, answered “Mine was in 6th form. Was supposed to be painting but did a Collage instead.\u00a0Tutor wasn’t happy.”<\/p>\n

Collage: Unholdbackable!<\/p>\n

\"SandArt lovers and collectors, style watchers, “culture vultures”, and the “ordinary person on the street” will, at “Return to Splendour”, discover contemporary, active practitioners of an art form that has seemingly lain dormant for a number of years, reacquainting themselves with the beauty, breadth, and boundlessness of collage.<\/p>\n

The exhibition addresses the process of emerging from isolation into Social Engagement of Positive Consequence.<\/p>\n

Participating Collagistes: Colin Barnes | Dervin Batarlo | Elisabeth Blanchet | Fiona Brown | Thisbe Casellini |\u00a0Nick Cash | Robson Cezar | Maria Christoforatou | Rosemary Cronin | Zach Collins | Yann Faucon | Tony Gohagan (fg) | Jenny Gordon | Gareth Halliday | Lianne Harrison | Jonathan Hood | Adrian Jugaru | Christina Kazakou | Sarah Key | Lauren King | Abena Kissiedu | Gemma Larkin | Petra Lea | Jenny Maria | Peter McAdam | Gavin Mitchell | Claire Palmer | Ruben Rodriguez | Roshanak Rouzbehani | Tamara Staser-Meltzer | Sue Skitt | Amy Templeton | Eric Van Uytven |\u00a0Emma Wilson | Artistic Spectrum<\/p>\n

(adapted from the organizers’ press materials)<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

INFORMATION<\/h3>\n

Marylebone Gardens<\/strong>
\n35 Marylebone High Street
\nLondon W1U 4QA United Kingdom
\n(0770) 896 7605<\/p>\n

Hours:
\nWednesday, 5 February, 6-10PM
\nThursday, 6 February, Noon-9PM
\nFriday, 7 February, Noon-7PM
\nSaturday, 8 February, Noon-9PM<\/p>\n

MAP<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/span>T<\/span>WITTER<\/a>\u00a0| FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n

Image (top):<\/strong>
\nMan About Town<\/em>
\nby\u00a0Jenny Gordon
\n24″x22″
\ncollage on board
\n2013
\nImage courtesy of the artist and Collagistes Collective<\/p>\n

Image (centre):<\/strong>
\nShush!<\/em>
\nby\u00a0Roshanak Rouzbehani
\ncollage
\nImage courtesy of the artist and Collagistes Collective<\/p>\n

Image (bottom):<\/strong>
\nSand<\/em> from the “Fourth Wall” series
\nby\u00a0Gavin Mitchell
\n23.3″x33″
\nmontage on Hahnem\u00fchle photo rag
\nEdition of 15
\nImage courtesy of the artist and Collagistes Collective<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5-8 February 2014 Preview: Wednesday, 5 February, 6-10PM “Return to Splendour” The exhibition heralds the resurgence of one of the most universal artistic expressions of the Modern Age: Collage!\u00a0“Return to Splendour” introduces the new stars of a genre that is…<\/p>\n

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