„Es gibt keine Tyranneien, die nicht versuchen, die Kunst einzuschränken, weil sie die Macht der Kunst sehen. Kunst kann der Welt Dinge sagen, die sonst nicht geteilt werden können. Kunst vermittelt Gefühle.“

- Volodymyr Selenskyj, Präsident der Ukraine

Kerry James Marshall

(c)image: Courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, and Koplin Del Rio, CA
Untitled (Nude), 1982
Collage , 12.7 x 10.2 cm
paper

Between 1978 and 1985 Marshall produces a variety of collages. Here the emphasis is mainly on form, surface and structure. But in this abstract working-method, he also treats images with a specific significance, mainly derived from fragments of words on labels.

These early collages have not often been seen. Indeed, this is the first time that the Nude collages have been presented in a public exhibition.