{"id":2247,"date":"2026-09-04T17:10:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preview.museum-frieder-burda.de\/ausstellung\/ray-johnson\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T18:44:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:44:39","slug":"ray-johnson","status":"publish","type":"ausstellung","link":"https:\/\/www.museum-frieder-burda.de\/en\/ausstellung\/ray-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"RAY JOHNSON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The presentation on the mezzanine of Museum Frieder Burda shows some 20 collages by the American artists Ray Johnson (1927-1995).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His breathtaking works, forerunners to pop-art, have yet to become known to a broader audience but as the founder of mail art, this important artist enjoys a reputation among experts and practitioners as a legendary outsider. After completion of his studies at the famous avant-garde Black Mountain College in North Carolina, Johnson moved to New York in 1948. Basing his work on examples of Dadaist collages, he began developing his own playful moticos, small-scale collages in which he plays out formal processes of abstraction with tender drawings, newspaper and magazine cuttings, brands and trade marks and other random elements, compressing them into scurrilous material treasures. 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