Art of Assemblage: Redwing Gallery, PZ.
Assemblage: A work of art, (Usually Three Dimensional), that combines various objects into an integrated whole.
The Redwing Gallery in Penzance is pleased to host an exhibition of discarded objects and images given new meaning and narrative purpose by artists a-tuned to, and able to comment upon, the poignant potential of the waste within today’s consumer culture.
The works of art on view have been created almost entirely from pre-existent cast offs and objects found.
Here, the artist’s contribution has been to make links between objects and things, putting them together and tearing them apart, juxtaposing them, either to suggest a story or to point to a higher reality.
Joseph Cornell talked of Rauschenberg’s ‘Combined Paintings’; “…the painted surface combined with objects affixed to the surface”.
In this exhibition there is a desire to give worthless objects a new life, a greater value. As such it is a branch of ‘Arte Povera’ and designates a kind of creativity which, in contrast to the technologized world around it, seeks to achieve a poetic statement with the simplest of means.
There is a total uniqueness in each piece because of the very nature of the choice of unrelated objects. No two artists would choose the same objects or even assemble them in the same way.
These artists usually have a desire for a subversion of the standard conventions within art and ask us to look closer for meaning in the world around us where ever we may be.
The Art of Assemblage runs at Redwing currently and is certainly well timed as international interest in this type of art is now well documented and received in the global Auction Houses.
Read more on Vaughan Warren (RAS) at Redwing here:
https://penwithlit.wordpress.com/category/art-exhibition-reviews/
Assemblage: A work of art, (Usually Three Dimensional), that combines various objects into an integrated whole.
The Redwing Gallery in Penzance is pleased to host an exhibition of discarded objects and images given new meaning and narrative purpose by artists a-tuned to, and able to comment upon, the poignant potential of the waste within today’s consumer culture.
The works of art on view have been created almost entirely from pre-existent cast offs and objects found.
Here, the artist’s contribution has been to make links between objects and things, putting them together and tearing them apart, juxtaposing them, either to suggest a story or to point to a higher reality.
Joseph Cornell talked of Rauschenberg’s ‘Combined Paintings’; “…the painted surface combined with objects affixed to the surface”.
In this exhibition there is a desire to give worthless objects a new life, a greater value. As such it is a branch of ‘Arte Povera’ and designates a kind of creativity which, in contrast to the technologized world around it, seeks to achieve a poetic statement with the simplest of means.
There is a total uniqueness in each piece because of the very nature of the choice of unrelated objects. No two artists would choose the same objects or even assemble them in the same way.
These artists usually have a desire for a subversion of the standard conventions within art and ask us to look closer for meaning in the world around us where ever we may be.
The Art of Assemblage runs at Redwing currently and is certainly well timed as international interest in this type of art is now well documented and received in the global Auction Houses.
Read more on Vaughan Warren (RAS) at Redwing here:
https://penwithlit.wordpress.com/category/art-exhibition-reviews/