Home and Away: Eduardo Paolozzi's General Dynamic F.U.N & photographs of S.E England by Tony Ray-Jon

The exhibition brings together two bodies of work by British artists from the second half of the 1960s which look very different but may have more in common than first appears. General Dynamic F.U.N. is one of Eduardo Paolozzi’s great print series, bringing together clashing images culled from magazines to create bold, provocative collages. The initial celebration of a new fantasy world of advertising and technology gives way to darker undertones of excess, and the sinister impact of the United States, currently embroiled in a war in Vietnam to which Paolozzi and many others were deeply opposed. During the same years, Tony Ray-Jones was drawing on the example of the new American photography that he had absorbed during a protracted stay (returning home in 1965), to celebrate and capture the people, rituals and places (notably coastal resorts in the Southeast, such as Broadstairs and Margate) that provided an authentic, quirky alternative to an increasingly uniform, Americanised world. Beneath the contrast between colourful collages and black and white photographs, we may discern a shared anxiety about the transatlantic relationship and a common feel for surreal juxtaposition.

Suitable for
18+

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/se000216?id=EVENT525464