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Migrations
Masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection

Migrations : Masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Dorothy Bohm, Torn Poster, South Bank, London, 1984

Dorothy Bohm 1924-2023

Torn Poster, South Bank, London, 1984
photograph on paper
64 x 43.8 cm
framed: 79.8 x 58.8 cm
signed (lower right): Dorothy Bohm
2008-12
© Dorothy Bohm
Photo: Bridgeman images
This close-up photograph of a billboard hoarding is one of a series of works featuring torn posters, graffiti and other urban ephemera, which the photographer captured after observing, then waiting...
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This close-up photograph of a billboard hoarding is one of a series of works featuring torn posters, graffiti and other urban ephemera, which the photographer captured after observing, then waiting (sometimes months) for it to 'mature'. The resulting partly eroded and weather-ravaged poster resembles, in its distressed condition, a strongly coloured and multi-layered collage. Although the original meaning is lost, the possibilities are multiplied as each fragment hints at past dramatic events. The inclusion, for example, of a head thrown back in agony (lower left) from Picasso’s Guernica (1937), expressing his horror at the bombing of the Basque town by Franco’s German allies during the Spanish Civil War, juxtaposed with the face of a woman wearing a soldier's helmet (upper right), is a disturbing intimation of conflict, somewhat offset by fragments of sky and landscape. The torn poster is part of a powerful group of works which represent, as Monica Bohm-Duchen has commented, ‘a palimpsest of contemporary western culture which forcefully conveys its fickleness’.
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Provenance

presented by the artist after her exhibition, 2007

Literature

Sarah MacDougall ed., Interstices - Discovering the Ben Uri Collection Guest curated by René Gimpel (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2020), pp. 10-11.;
Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall, eds., Out of Chaos: Ben Uri; 100 Years in London (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2015) pp. 128-129.
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