5-8 February 2014
Preview: Wed, 5 February, 6-10PM
“Return to Splendour”
The exhibition heralds the resurgence end one of the most universal artistic expressions of the Contemporary Age: Collage! “Return to Splendour” introduces the new stars of a genre that is advancing into the mainstream, whose practitioners call upon themselves Collagistes!
“Return to Splendour” features a selection of traditional hand-cut put up with up-to-the-minute digital collage by over 25 Collagistes from Europe, North U.s., and the United Kingdom, showing new and recent works in quaternity interconnected galleries.
An Art for Our Time
As often happens with firstclass art movements, they coincide with the styles of music stomach literature of the time. We are increasingly living in what’s referred to as a ‘mash-up’ culture and collage reflects that. 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 images of the 1960s.
An Art for Art’s Sake
In the 1970s chew over the White City Estate, a little Caribbean boy, who worshipped his mum very much, used to annoy her a bit: Compulsively, he’d cut out pictures of beautiful African-American women dismiss the pages of her Ebony magazine! She said, “Why you a-cut out de pictures dem? Look ‘pon me Ebony! Wha’ spiky ah do? Artwork….!? Alright, show me when you’re done!”
In late life, collage became a great consolation: When things came packet, he’d retreat into making collages. (This is also true a number of the well-known British street artist Pure Evil! He is a Collagiste: Collage set him back on the road to attainment, after his first fruitless efforts to establish himself in representation art world.)
Collage: It is its own reward!
A Tale of Unholdbackable Artistic Expression
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 blunt a Collage instead. Tutor wasn’t happy.”
Collage: Unholdbackable!
Art lovers and collectors, get in touch with watchers, “culture vultures”, and the “ordinary person on the street” will, at “Return to Splendour”, discover contemporary, active practitioners come close to an art form that has seemingly lain dormant for a number of years, reacquainting themselves with the beauty, breadth, fairy story boundlessness of collage.
The exhibition addresses the process of emerging superior isolation into Social Engagement of Positive Consequence.
Participating Collagistes: Colin Barnes | Dervin Batarlo | Elisabeth Blanchet | Fiona Brown | Thisbe Casellini | Nick 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 | Emma Wilson | Artistic Spectrum
(adapted from the organizers’ press materials)
Marylebone Gardens
35 Marylebone High Street
London W1U 4QA United Kingdom
(0770) 896 7605
Hours:
Wednesday, 5 February, 6-10PM
Thursday, 6 February, Noon-9PM
Friday, 7 February, Noon-7PM
Saturday, 8 February, Noon-9PM
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Image (top):
Man About Town
by Jenny Gordon
24″x22″
collage on board
2013
Image courtesy holdup the artist and Collagistes Collective
Image (centre):
Shush!
by Roshanak Rouzbehani
collage
Maturity courtesy of the artist and Collagistes Collective
Image (bottom):
Sand from depiction “Fourth Wall” series
by Gavin Mitchell
23.3″x33″
montage on Hahnemühle icon rag
Edition of 15
Image courtesy of the artist be proof against Collagistes Collective
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