This exhibit examines one of Shwitters' most daring and innovative figures of the international avant-garde. His art extended to almost every area of avant-garde practice—collage, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and sculptural environment (prefiguring installation art). The exhibition, organized by the Menil Collection, explores the relationship between collage and painting—as well as color and material—in the artist’s work. In addition to a reconstruction of the first version of his monumental seminal installation, Merzbau, which was destroyed by Allied bombs in 1943, Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage includes approximately eighty assemblages, reliefs, sculptures, and collages made between 1918 and 1947.
Tickets included with museum admission. Admission prices:
FREE: BAM/PFA Members; UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff;
Children (12 & under).
$10: Adults (18-64).
$7: Non-UC Berkeley students; Senior citizens (65 & over); Disabled persons;
Young adults (13-17).
Berkeley Art Museum Location/Entrances:
2626 Bancroft Way
2621 Durant Avenue
Between College and Telegraph
Phone number: (510) 642-0808
Wednesday-Sunday; 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
