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Indexing the weight of cumulative history, the “Imprint” collage exhibition is the first of a new series at SomoS charting innovations in this technique. It will present international artists who explore new dimensions and expand the medium’s possibilities and associations.
The “Imprint” collage exhibition is the first of a new series at SomoS Art House charting innovations in this technique. It will present international artists who expand the medium’s possibilities.
“Imprint” presents the work of two young collage artists, David Woodward (Canada) and SomoS Summer 2015 Artist in Residence Ingrid Bittar (Brazil). The presentation traces how the artist's inventive use of heritage and history, nostalgia and retromania allow for very current and relevant work.
Apart from formal similarities, and a joint interest in employing crafting techniques, both artists share the ability to make subversive and imaginative use of public historic and vintage imagery to create very personal and intimate narratives.
David Woodward:
David Woodward uses vintage source material for a very contemporary discourse. Indexing the found imagery that illustrate and symbolize the givens of this world, Woodward adds his own objects of importance to this collage mix, completing and subverting official narratives with personal, poetic and sly recombinations.
The Jealous Curator noted: "His color palettes are gorgeous, the compositions are fantastic, and his image choices are the perfect combination of strange, delicate, creepy and lovely"
Ingrid Bittar:
Ingrid Bittar’s detailed figurative collage work reflect on the formation of identity, and the things that happen inside a home. An obsessive collector of vintage print material, Bittar employs imagery from the worlds of three generations: children, parents and grandparents. A cumulative, sometimes almost literally top-heavy crushing sense of heritage is a recurrent part of the baroque narrative of the artist’s collages.
Also presented are Bittar's "Mappings," new crafty works which visually trace the lineage of her collages.
Dates:
Exhibition Duration: October 2 - 17 2015
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 2-7pm
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 1st, 2015
Venue:
SomoS
Kottbusser Damm 95
10967 Berlin - Germany
About SomoS
Berlin art house SomoS (somos-arts.org) provides space and resources for presentation and production of the arts. SomoS organizes its own cultural events and closely works with artists, organizers and curators to realize their projects. It is SomoS' mission to create an international open framework for innovative arts, exhibitions, education and creative cooperation.
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