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Source: en.wikipedia.org
John Stezaker is fascinated by the power of images and questions the authority of pictures found in books, magazines, postcards and encyclopaedias by directly intervening into their ordinary status. John Stezaker simple yet disconcerting modifications toy with the subconscious and the surreal. Through the handcrafted act of splicing together, inverting, or simply adjusting an image Stezaker embarks upon ’a process that cuts it off from its disappearance into the everyday world’.
1949 Born in Worcester and he Lives and works in London, Stezaker has been centrally influential in a number of developments in art over the last three decades; from Conceptual Art, New Image Art through to the contemporary interest in collage. Showing first as a part of the British Conceptual Art group in ’The New Art’, 1972. This fascination is translated into alterations, deletions, visual concordances and juxtapositions of disparate sources, intuitively creating new images, relationships, characters and meanings. Stezaker’s investigations continue to develop in this exhibition of new works that concentrate specifically on the portrait.
Stezaker’s interest in the concept soon gave way to a long-term fascination with the image, finding new aesthetic allegiances with the image through working with found photographs and printed matter. The glamorous and carefully posed faces are subtly transformed into otherworldly, uncanny beings.
1949 Born in Worcester and he Lives and works in London, Stezaker has been centrally influential in a number of developments in art over the last three decades; from Conceptual Art, New Image Art through to the contemporary interest in collage. Showing first as a part of the British Conceptual Art group in ’The New Art’, 1972. This fascination is translated into alterations, deletions, visual concordances and juxtapositions of disparate sources, intuitively creating new images, relationships, characters and meanings. Stezaker’s investigations continue to develop in this exhibition of new works that concentrate specifically on the portrait.
Stezaker’s interest in the concept soon gave way to a long-term fascination with the image, finding new aesthetic allegiances with the image through working with found photographs and printed matter. The glamorous and carefully posed faces are subtly transformed into otherworldly, uncanny beings.
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