Cubomania is a
Surrealist technique of making
collages by cutting an
image into squares and reassembling without regard for the original image at random to create something new.
The technique was invented by the
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...
n surrealist
Gherasim Luca
Gherasim Luca (; 23 July 1913 – 9 February 1994) was a Romanian surrealist theorist and poet. Born Salman Locker in Romania and also known as Costea Sar, and Petre Malcoci, he became an apatrid after leaving Romania in 1952.
Biography
Born ...
. Luca introduced cubomania at two exhibitions in Bucharest, in 1945 and 1946, and in small publications.
Luca positioned cubomania as a mix of
Karl Marx's and
André Breton's ideas. It was a critique of the alleged objectivity of social conditions and rejected the tyranny over liberty.
It has been described as a "statistical method".
Penelope Rosemont and Joseph Jablonski have suggested that cubomania can "subvert the enslaving 'message' of advertising and to free images from repressive contexts."
See also
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Cut-up technique
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Surautomatism
References
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Surrealism