Mashup: the Birth of Modern Culture/ Vancouver Art Gallery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmbsJ5t0vcg&app=desktop
“Something happened 100 years ago that changed the way we think about art and the way we see the world. The last time this happened they called it the Renaissance, this time we’ve called it MashUp.”

From the moment that Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque undertook the revolutionary gesture of adding a rectangle of floral wallpaper, a newspaper headline or a scrap of sheet music to their compositions, they initiated an immediate and fundamental shift in European art.

The resulting explosion of mashup strategies employed across media and movements offers the clearest evidence of the relevance of this process to the growth of visual culture during the 20th century. From Marcel Duchamp to Jean-Luc Godard, Liz Magor to Isa Genzken, artists of diverse disciplines have adopted and reworked this creative strategy. Taking over all four floors of the Vancouver Art Gallery, this ground-breaking exhibition will offer an international survey of mashup culture, documenting the emergence and evolution of a mode of creativity that has grown to become the dominant form of cultural production in the early 21st century.
Organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Daina Augaitis, Chief Curator/Associate Director, Bruce Grenville, Senior Curator, and Stephanie Rebick, Assistant Curator, with the assistance of an international team of contributing curators.
4TH FLOOR
Early 20th Century: Collage, Montage and Readymade
at the Birth of Modern Culture
PABLO PICASSO TO HANNAH HÖCH
February 20–June 12, 2016

3RD FLOOR
The Post-War: Cut, Copy and Quotation in the Age of Mass Media
ANDY WARHOL TO DARA BIRNBAUM
February 20–June 12, 2016

2ND FLOOR
Late 20th Century: Splicing, Sampling and the Street
in the Age of Appropriation
KEITH HARING TO BARBARA KRUGER
February 20–May 15, 2016

1ST FLOOR
The Digital Age: Hacking, Remix and the Archive
in the Age of Post-Production
DJ SPOOKY TO HITO STEYERL
February 20–May 15, 2016

Presenting Sponsor:
The Keg
Generously Supported by:
Artworkers Retirement Society
Joy Chao and John Henshaw
Sherry Killam
Visionary Partner for Scholarship and Publications:
The Richardson Family

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