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Gagosian is pleased to present an exhibition of recent collage by more than fifty artists, many of whom have created works specifically for this occasion. Fit to Print exposes the artist’s compulsion to react to the steady stream of information that the print media delivers on a daily basis. The works on view range from meditations on formal composition to personal perspectives on current events.
All works included in this exhibition have been made since January 2000, illuminating the vast extent to which contemporary artists around the globe share an interest in the myriad forms of printed media while working within the traditional definition of collage. A thoroughly modernist invention, collage first appeared in the work of Picasso and Braque and was embraced by the international Dada movement as a mode of political critique. Whether referring to autobiography, disposable pop culture, or actualities of global politics, the artists in this exhibition acknowledge the legacy of past practice by immediately utilizing mass-distributed, readymade print materials, and incorporating them directly into their work.
Picasso’s ability to unite formal and political concerns on the eve of World War I resonates in today’s moment of global turmoil and is acknowledged at the onset of the exhibition by the inclusion of a single, rare Picasso, Bottle and Glass (1912). As one of the first examples of collage ever made, the work, with its simple yet radical gesture of incorporating primary physical objects rather than painted representations, continues to inspire.
Today, images of vilified political figures juxtaposed with provocative text fragments critique contemporary events in real time and evoke the structures engineered by Hannah Hoch and her contemporaries.
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Artists
Dexter Dalwood
Tom Friedman
Gelitin
Mark Grotjahn
Mike Kelley
Sherrie Levine
Josephine Meckseper
Albert Oehlen
Steven Parrino
Pablo Picasso
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