{"id":14542,"date":"2023-11-01T11:39:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T15:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=14542"},"modified":"2024-01-08T15:32:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T20:32:23","slug":"paint-outs-cut-outs-tear-up-erasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/paint-outs-cut-outs-tear-up-erasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Paint Outs, Cut Outs, Tear Up Erasures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Page from Heath and Woodland Birds<\/em> by Daniel Lehan
7″x4.3″; cut-out erasure from a series of ten erased Ladybird books; 2022. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

COLLAGE ON VIEW<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Lehan: Paint Outs, Cut Outs, Tear Up Erasures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

at the Bower Ashton Library in Bristol, United Kingdom
1 November-5 December 2023<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Lehan writes about this work:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first erasure texts I made were on the front pages of the METRO<\/em> newspaper. I can\u2019t remember if I had seen any erasure work prior to this–I was aware of those documents–often those of the government–that are censored with blocked out text, but, I think, that was all. I wondered if it was possible, to find in the headline story of the METRO<\/em>–describing a national or world event–words I could use to record my thoughts or actions for that particular day, just like a diary, covering up the “unwanted” words with white paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hastings & St Leonards<\/em> by Daniel Lehan
6.5″x5.9″; book-cut erasure; 2023. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This process took time, constantly re-reading the article, finding words that fell into the right order to make sense. When this happened (and this was mostly possible) the found words \u2018cut to the chase\u2019 and highlighted a poignant moment. Since then I have erased texts, occasionally images, in a variety of ways, with paint, erasers, pens, by tearing and with scissors, and removing text with scalpel blades. Made erasures by using a typewriter with no ribbon, the metal keys damaging \/ destroying the text and sometimes the paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with erasures, I am taken with the idea and process of absence, the absence of something that was. A challenge is to create texts which alter the sense and meaning, even the subject, of the source material. One I have in mind is–to take, say, a car manual and create from this a love story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This exhibition includes erased books: A Guide to the National Gallery<\/em>, a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds book of birds, several guidebooks, Ladybird books–erased photographs and French texts, typewriter erasures, and an erasure of the Holy Communion Service. The Nose<\/em> by Nikolai Gogol has been “totally” erased with each and every word cut from this short work, and each one placed in a box, with the invitation to then re-use these words to create a new text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(text adapted from material provided by the artist and the venue)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COLLAGE ON VIEW Daniel Lehan: Paint Outs, Cut Outs, Tear Up Erasures at the Bower Ashton Library in Bristol, United Kingdom1 November-5 December 2023 Daniel Lehan writes about this work: The first erasure texts I made were on the front…<\/p>\n

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