COLLAGE ON VIEW
Romare Bearden & Nancy Grossman at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York, New York, USA via 2 November 2024. “Romare Bearden & Nancy Grossman: Collage in Dialogue” is an exhibition targeted on the creative alternate between two main innovators of the medium. Although Bearden was a era older than Grossman, the artists initiated their collage practices inside a 12 months of one another—Grossman in 1962 and Bearden in 1963—and shared essential developments of their approach via a steady dialogue. Introduced collectively via the cultural milieu fostered by their seller on the time, Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, the 2 artists remained shut buddies till Bearden’s dying, forging a significant rapport that formed their practices and lives. Learn Extra
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Kolaj Journal, a full colour, print journal, exists to point out how the world of collage is wealthy, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing historical past and tradition, collage artists forge new pondering. To grasp collage is to reshape one’s pondering of artwork historical past and redefine the canon of visible tradition that informs the current.