Kurt Schwitters at BAM

Kurt Schwitters at the Berkeley Art Museum

through Nov 27, 2011

During my art history class at City College of San Francisco, i learned about Kurt Schwitters and his process and I've been fascinated with his work ever since. He would walk and collect bits of garbage and use these pieces for his collages. His work is inspiring and lovely. From the BAM website:

Schwitters integrated forgotten pieces of urban waste—train tickets, scraps of fabric, candy wrappers, old wire, and fragments of newsprint. In a wet paste of flour and water spread over his paper ground, the artist would move and shuffle scraps of paper, integrating all the parts into a single fluid action. He added color, manipulating tones and harmonies. Exhibition curator Isabel Schulz argues that Schwitters thought of collage as an extension of painting, focusing on the overall structure of the composition and the relational values of the color harmonies.

BAM Gallery Entrances

2626 Bancroft Way and 2621 Durant Ave

Between College and Telegraph