>> Raoul Hausmann: Collage Works

Raoul Hausmann, Oaoa, 1965photo: DR 1/6

1st March - 15th December 2010 Recognised as one of the inventors of the photomontage technique, Raoul Hausmann employed collages to express the complex interactions of a world of sound and images.

In the years leading up to 1910, Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971) first began using collage techniques whilst experimenting with "photomontage" . As he later explained in his book Courrier Dada, the word "montage" was "adopted because, in our aversion to playing the role of an artist, we thought of ourselves more as engineers constructing our works."  Dada montage was swiftly adopted and soon enveloped typography and poetry as well as pictorial compositions. This exhibition features work from the Rochechouart Museum Collection spanning the Dada years and later examples of pasted paper assemblages, reflecting Hausmann's broad artistic approach which like collage itself concentrates a multitude of emotions and images in a single picture plane.