Pablo Echaurren. Iconoclast. Catalogo della mostra (Londra, 19 marzo-18 maggio 2014). Ediz. italiana e inglese
Silvana Editoriale
London, Estorick Collection, March 19 - May 18, 2014.
Italian and English Text.
Cinisello Balsamo, 2014; paperback, pp. 64, b/w and col. ill., cm 17x24.
(Cataloghi di Mostre).
series: Cataloghi di Mostre
ISBN: 88-366-2836-2 - EAN13: 9788836628360
Subject: Collections,DigitalArt,Essays (Art or Architecture),Graphic Arts (Prints, Drawings, Engravings, Miniatures),Monographs (Painting and Drawing)
Period: 1960- Contemporary Period
Languages:
Weight: 0.285 kg
In his collages, the artist - son of the Surrealist painter Sebastian Matta - assembles scraps of paper, old and new, and cut-out fragments of Futurist newspapers and books, mixing the sacred and the profane through references to both the historical avant-garde and cartoon characters.
Bold juxtapositions that, in the spirit of iconoclasm and love for the paper world, represent the other, dark, desecrating side of bibliophilic activity.
In an ars combinatoria aimed to stun and bewilder, he brazenly mixes the high and the low in surprising pairings, reinterpreting and renewing a genre that the avantgardes themselves had codified.