“Collage: Moving Beyond Paper”
29 January-26 March 2016
At its origins in the early 20th century, collage offered a new perspective on what constituted art; the union of scraps or patches with a painted surface proposed a methodical reexamination of the relation between painting and sculpture. Whereas early Cubist works may have been examples of objects deconstructed in order to understand their physical, planar relationships, papiers collés were three-dimensional objects constructed of disparate physical materials on flat surfaces.
During the twentieth century artists continued to experiment with collage technique and the materials they used—from photomontage of Berlin Dada in the 1920s and 1930s to British pop artists of the late 1950s and early 1960s who relied heavily on fragments from popular print culture.
“Collage: Moving Beyond Paper”, curated by Kathryn Koca Polite, at Krannert Art Museum features late-twentieth-century works from the permanent collection, placing emphasis on the continual evolution of collage, beyond traditional cutting, gluing, and reassembling of images on paper or canvas. Works by Arman, Jess, Don Baum, Willie Cole, Jenni Lukac, and recently conserved work by Frank Stella, for example, invite visitors to explore issues of materiality through the work of artists experimenting with three-dimensional assemblage.
Works on view include collage and assemblage by Samuel M. Adler, Arman, Don Baum, Willie Cole, Francois Deschamps, Victor Ekpuk, Nancy Grossman, Jess, Kenneth Kerslake, Jenni Lukac, Robert Motherwell, David Salle, Salvator Scarpitta, Frank Stella, John Stezaker, Allen Stringfellow, Andrew Topolski, and Ulfert Wilke.
(text adapted from the gallery’s press materials)
INFORMATION
Krannert Art Museum
College of Fine and Applied Arts
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
500 East Peabody Drive
Champaign, Illinois 61820 USA
(217) 333-1861
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Image:
Street Smarts II
by Allen T. Stringfellow
collage and watercolour on paper
Gift of John and Dorothy Gardner 2014-8-1
Courtesy of Krannert Art Museum, Champaign