“Collage: The Unmonumental Picture”: Jan 19

Saturday, January 19, 3pm
The New Museum, 235 Bowery

Chief Curator Richard Flood leads a conversation with three artists from “Collage: The Unmonumental Picture.” Mark Bradford, Christian Holstad, and Wangechi Mutu

Through collage, video, photography, and installation, Mark Bradford explores public space by excerpting and recomposing its contents to create abstract compositions whose grids, lines, and fields of color flicker with the visual and informational juxtapositions that characterize the urban experience.

Referring both to the mainstream and subculture, Christian Holstad’s collages often depict erotic couplings of gay men whose bodies are composed of decorative patterns and textures extracted from magazines. These intimate scenes are set in unexpected or even contradictory surroundings. This juxtaposition of at least two kinds of decadence and desire serves to both charge conventional environments and cheerfully normalize same-sex erotic activity.

Wangechi Mutu’s wall paintings, collages, and installations make reference to race, politics, fashion, and African identity.

*This event is free with Museum admission but tickets are required. Please request a ticket for this event in person at the Visitor Desk the day of the event. Advance reservations are not available.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/116