Jess (Collins): Piling Up The Rectangles. Paintings, Paste-Ups and Puzzle Collages
Tibor de Nagy is pleased to present Jess - Piling Up The Rectangles an exhibition of Paintings, Paste-Ups and Puzzle collages. This will be Jess's seventh exhibition with the gallery. 2023 marked the centenary of the artist's birth.
The exhibition focusing on Jess's collages and paintings presents the two mediums which the artist pursued in equally singular fashion. Jess's collages which he called Paste-Ups, because of their scrapbook nature, have their origin in the 1950s when he became aware of Max Ernst's collages and the writing of James Joyce. Each collage is made from his collection of images reflecting his sources and influences. Over the decades, this collection grew in volume and complexity to become an enormous personal archive or as he called it a 鈥渃onstellation鈥� which he added to continually.
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Tibor de Nagy is pleased to present Jess - Piling Up The Rectangles an exhibition of Paintings, Paste-Ups and Puzzle collages. This will be Jess's seventh exhibition with the gallery. 2023 marked the centenary of the artist's birth.
The exhibition focusing on Jess's collages and paintings presents the two mediums which the artist pursued in equally singular fashion. Jess's collages which he called Paste-Ups, because of their scrapbook nature, have their origin in the 1950s when he became aware of Max Ernst's collages and the writing of James Joyce. Each collage is made from his collection of images reflecting his sources and influences. Over the decades, this collection grew in volume and complexity to become an enormous personal archive or as he called it a 鈥渃onstellation鈥� which he added to continually.
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A good portion of the exhibition is devoted to Jess鈥檚 鈥淭ranslations,鈥� a series which tiptoes carefully between artifact and art-piece.
