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LONDON.- Skarstedt London announces its exhibition of seminal early works by American artist Barbara Kruger. The exhibition features Kruger’s large-scale black and white photographs, overlaid with provocative captions in bold Futura type. This group of works, selected from the 1980s, examines the cultural constructions of power, identity and sexuality through their juxtaposition of text and imagery.
http://www.skarstedt.com/exhibitions/2015-02-10_barbara-kruger/
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OXFORD.- Modern Art Oxford presents a major exhibition of new and recent work by internationally acclaimed artist, Barbara Kruger. Her instantly recognisable works incorporate bold slogans, colour and dramatic presentations of text and image, to investigate strategies of power and influence at play in mass media and contemporary popular culture.
Barbara Kruger 28 June - 31 August 2014 Modern Art Oxford http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/barbara-kruger/about/
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"[...] By 1979 Barbara Kruger [...] began to employ found images in her art, mostly from mid-century American print-media sources, with words collaged directly over them. Her 1980 untitled piece commonly known as "Perfect" portrays the torso of a woman, hands clasped in prayer, evoking the Virgin Mary, the embodiment of submissive femininity; the word “perfect” is emblazoned along the lower edge of the image. These early collages in which Kruger deployed techniques she had perfected as a graphic designer, inaugurated the artist’s ongoing political, social, and especially feminist provocations and commentaries on religion, sex, racial and gender stereotypes, consumerism, corporate greed, and power.[...]"
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American artist, Barbara Kruger will present a major new exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, in June. Her recognisable work combines bold lettering, colours and dramatic juxtapositions of text and image, to investigate the machinations of power in popular culture today. The exhibition will comprise a site-specific architectural wrap of Modern Art Oxford's iconic Upper gallery, alongside an installation of classic 1980s paste-up works and a major film presentation in the John Piper Gallery.
Barbara Kruger 28 June – 31 August 2014 Modern Art Oxford http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/future/
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