Collage: Diversions, Contradictions and Anomalies.

 Collage: Diversions, Contradictions and Anomalies.

Collage's integral methods of discordance and displacement have so insistently reflected turbulent developments in twentieth century art, science and geopolitics that our response might be to categorise the whole genre as iconoclasm or subversive fantasy.

Sally O'Reilly

Space and Place

THE PERSPECTIVE OF EXPERIENCE

Yi-Fu Tuan

1959 : Patti Smith

Peace and Noise

Lingering at the threshold between word and image

Cy Twombly

Claire Daigle

Although his work resonates strongly with generations of younger artists, ranging from Brice Marden to Richard Prince to Tacita Dean to Patti Smith, it has a general propensity to polarise its audience between perplexity and unbridled admiration. 

Certainly, the fortuities of a name are being pushed too far here, but what does Twombly do but offer up words in all of their resonance: literal, metaphoric, corporeal, material? His citations often have the vanitas effect of graffiti: ‘Cy was here’. Lingering at the threshold between word and image, Twombly renders visible those things – experience, emotion, the body’s share – that lie beyond the reach of verbal articulation.

Research Material
Photographic Drawings

PETER ZUMTHOR ATMOSPHERES

Architectural Environments
Surrounding Objects
2006 Birkhauser, Basel, Switzerland.