Whitechapel Gallery in London Presents Keeping it Real: Material Intelligence

LONDON.- The Whitechapel Gallery presents the work of a generation of artists who make a direct link between art and everyday life, in the fourth and final display of works from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Greece. The exhibition includes artists such as Paul Chan, Arturo Herrera, Martin Kippenberger, Seth Price and Kelley Walker who use existing images as a material in their work. Whether by taking cuttings from newspapers or using common technologies such as desktop scanners, they heighten the physicality of their chosen images by cropping, distorting and layering them. Works on show include Martin Kippenberger’s collages combining reproductions of iconic Pop Art works by Roy Lichtenstein taken from a Deutsche Bank calendar with cut-outs from a German nudist magazine and Arturo Herrera’s abstract collages which incorporate segments of his

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