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| Mano Poderosa Collages,
1994. |
| Mixed-media
collage, 36 x 24 inches |
| One
of five collages. |
| Private
collection, Mexico City, Mexico |
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| Ringsby became
very interested in collage art while studying art history at a private
college in northern Britain. There he created Homage to Schwitters,
1987 in response to the prolific Dada artist Kurt Schwitters
and his collages of discarded paper he called Merz (trash).
This giant collage, 15 x 6 x 1 feet, was made of a random assortment
of images on paper, with a particular interest in political, religious
and war imagery in Ringsby's studio in York, England. Carrying on
his interest in Dada imagery in Chicago, Ringsby created five collages
with the same general idea as before for the Mano Poderosa
installation. In this series of collages Ringsby focused on layering
Dadaist, martial, geopolitical and Mexican religious images. |
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