Exhibition – John Stezaker at Kemper Museum

John Stezaker

at Kemper Museum

January 27 to April 23, 2012

John Stezaker is organized by the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and Mudam, Luxembourg. The St. Louis exhibition is coordinated by Karen K. Butler, assistant curator. It is the first US museum exhibition of this influential artist’s work.

Breaking through the onslaught of images in contemporary culture, John Stezaker (b. 1949) subverts the familiar through collage in a way that is at once captivating and unsettling. The exhibition reveals his lifelong fascination with the potent force of images, showcasing his investigations into the ways visual language can create meanings that vary dramatically according to context. Stezaker transforms classic movie stills and vintage postcards, magazines, and book illustrations by inverting, slicing, and combining them to challenge and complicate the original connotations. With over ninety works on paper from the 1970s to today, John Stezaker offers an in-depth survey of the artist’s ability to produce compelling new images by juxtaposing disparate images from found photographs.

About the artist

John Stezaker was born in England in 1949, and currently lives and works in London. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in the 1960s, and has since taught at Central Saint Martins School of Art, Goldsmiths College, and the Royal College of Art. Stezaker has exhibited widely across the UK and Europe from the early 1970s to today; recent solo exhibitions include Freiburg Kunstverein (2010); Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen (GAK) (2008); Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2007); Stills Gallery, Edinburgh (2007); and White Columns, New York (2006). Major group shows include Collage: The Unmonumental Picture, New Museum, New York (2008); Tate Triennial 2006—New British Art, Tate Britain, London (2006); The British Art Show 5 (2000); and the 40th Venice Biennale (1982).

(From the museum press material)


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