Collage and photocollage between Dadaism and Futurism: an exhibition in Bologna

An exhibition on collage and photocollage as a means of expression in Dadaism and Futurism: this is the one that the Cirulli Foundation in Bologna opens from April 16 to Dec. 17. Entitled Cut&Paste. Fotocollage between Dada and Futurism, the exhibition showcases forty works, including collage and photocollage, from the Cirulli Foundation’s collection, representing a reflection in the field of visual research that impassioned the avant-gardes from the 1910s to the 1930s, when continuous formal and aesthetic experimentation led to the search for new expressive techniques that would cancel any reference to the past, going so far as to deny the manual of painting in favor of the choice of poor and ephemeral materials, such as newspaper clippings and photographic fragments, assembled in a seemingly meaningless composition but which, in reality, takes into account only the artist’s sensibility. This is the case with Raoul Haussmann, Kurt Schwitters and Hannah Hoch, artists of Dada-Berlin, for whom collage seems to become the perfect expressive solution to express discomfort with the industrial society of the time, capable of promising prosperity but leading the world to war.

In the Futurist works, the use of photocollage, on the other hand, represents a desire to celebrate modernity through the exaltation of technological innovations and the vital energy they unleash. Among the artists featured are Bruno Munari, Thayaht and Vinicio Paladini, among the first in Italy to use the technique of collage and photomontage. A cameo is dedicated to Jean Cocteau, poet, writer, playwright, screenwriter, director and actor, one of the most prominent figures of the Parisian avant-garde in the interwar period.

Cut&Paste. Fotocollage between Dada and Futurism is part of the exhibition concept The Animated Archive that characterizes all the programming of Fondazione Cirulli, a laboratory of history and culture between archive and exhibition space.

Collage and photocollage between Dadaism and Futurism: an exhibition in Bologna

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