Collage describes both the technique and the resulting work of art in which pieces of paper, photographs, fabric and other ephemera are arranged and stuck down onto a supporting surface … The term derives from the French term papiers collés (or découpage), used to describe techniques of pasting paper cut-outs onto various surfaces. It was first used as an artists’ technique in the early twentieth century … Collage can also include other media such as painting and drawing, and contain three-dimensional elements.
CUTTING EDGE: COLLAGE IN BRITAIN1945 TO NOW
27 MARCH 2020 AT 16.00–18.30
28 MARCH 2020 AT 10.00–17.00
Since the Second World War, collage has provided artists working in Britain with a complex and critical mode of creative practice.
From the fractured aesthetics of brutalism and the borrowed motifs of Pop to the countercultural graphics of punk, the subversive ephemera of feminist collectives, and the layered poetics of self-exile and transnational identity, collage has offered a vital means to repurpose the visual and textual materials of a common culture.
At key moments of socio-political struggle, collage has been mobilised to suggest alternative viewpoints, to dismantle dominant narratives, and to offer searing and satirical forms of critique.
Cutting Edge: Collage in Britain, 1945 to Now locates collage at the vanguard of artistic production. It poses new questions about the materialities and technologies of collage, as well as the methodologies and historiographies through which we encounter it today.
An international array of speakers present fresh perspectives on collage as process and as object, and on its contribution to modern and contemporary visual art in Britain and beyond.
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/conference/cutting-edge-collage-britain