Robert Longo: Searchers SHOWNews Weekly Arts Bulletin

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Searchers by Robert Longo at Thaddaeus Ropac

Acting on his own desire to produce art grappling with multiple possible meanings while looking to previous bodies of work such as his famed Men in the Cities series, Robert Longo's Searchers exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac challenges the way we consume and interpret images in the digital age. Referencing Sergei Eisenstein's Soviet Montage Theory as well as John Berger's seminal 1972 text, Ways of Seeing, the exhibition re-visits Longo's 1980s 'Combine' collages, mimicking Rauschenberg's own (another Thaddaeus Ropac artist), not only in name but in style, too.

Taking collage and the entire Combines series to a new plane, each new work measures 7.5 metres in width and is composed of five panels, each of which is made up of charcoal, video, painting, sculpture and photography to intentionally skewer the way we interact with viewing images in the 21st century.