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Barbara Kruger, Untitled (We are your circumstantial evidence), 1981
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Exhibition
Barbara Kruger: Early Works
10 Feb 2015 – 11 Apr 2015
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 23 Old Bond Street
- London
- W1S 4PZ
- United Kingdom
Skarstedt London is delighted to announce its forthcoming 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. Made in the 1980s, these works examine the cultural constructions of power, identity and sexuality through their juxtaposition of text and
imagery.
About
Drawing on her background in graphic design, Kruger adopts the same visual tools mass media use to disseminate social and political stereotypes. With an emphasis on layout, format, typeface and typography, the two-dimensional planarity of these photo-collages
simulates the flat surface of printed media. Appropriating images from photographic annuals and magazines, Kruger not only challenges the status of the photograph as a record of truth, she also subverts the illusions and aspirations of a modern American culture projected by these images through her explicit slogans.
