George Grosz, 1922

The exhibition ‘Photomontage Between the Wars (1918-1939)’ takes stock of the first moments of this photographic technique, defined by the constructivist Gustavs Klucis as ‘the artistic development of one or more photographs into a single graphical interface to obtain a unitary composition’. In contrast to the process of abstraction of the first avant-garde, the Dadaists used photograph cutouts to reintroduce reality in art. This is how the photomontage process emerged. Its communicative potential, combined with the easy reproduction, led to its rapid spread to areas of everyday culture, such as the commercial environment in the West or political propaganda in communist countries... [+]