Exhibition Cut ’n’ Paste: From Architectural Assemblage to Collage City

Cut ’n’ Paste: From Architectural Assemblage to Collage City at New York?s MoMA is an installation that traces the historical evolution of collage, starting from its definition as an artistic process that illustrates the specific condition of modernity .

Collage is an often overlooked and yet fundamental and often used technique of architectural and urban landscape representation. A tool that enables architects to represent the real world in their projects by juxtaposing references, graphics and images, directly evoking lifestyle and cultural conditions as first theorised by architectural critics Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter in the 1970s.

The installations drawn from the MoMA collection and trace a path that connects Mies van der Rohe early photomontages to the avant-garde works of artists and photographers, through to the reprise of the collage technique in digital rendering in contemporary architectural representations.

(Agnese Bifulco)

Titel: Cut ’n’ Paste: From Architectural Assemblage to Collage City
Location: MoMA - New York USA
Dates: 10 July - 1 December 2013
Images courtesy of MoMA

www.moma.org

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