CUTTERS2010.

Collage is in no way a new medium. Lots of artists have practiced this art form in the past few centuries. However, as today's world edges closer to chaos with all its imagery and overflow of information, collage enjoys a newly found place among certain ways of expression.

CUTTERS2010, a group exhibition curated by James Gallagher, reaffirms the new recognition of collage with recent collage works of thirteen international artists. Using varied techniques and materials, each of the artists exploits the formal and ideological power of found images and they create a range of work with it that depict everything, from social commentaries to personal confessions and surrealist fantasies.

The exhibition shows us the work of different collage artists. You can behold Valero Doval's delicate vintage, Erik Foss's dirty girls, Sophie Kern's magical worlds, Matt Lipp's provocative silhouettes and many more. You can even see the work of pool gallery artist and CUTTERS curator James Gallagher, called private moments, composed of his own signature that includes vintage sex manuals and antique flea market findings.

Collage is an unexpected way of processing the world around us. Collage is the recycling, reinterpretation and reprocessing of our collective past, present and future.

CUTTERS2010
May 12th - July 15th 2010
Pool Gallery, Berlin

Written for BLEND.