Marriage (Film Portrait Collage) XXVIII

细节

John Stezaker (B. 1949)
Marriage (Film Portrait Collage) XXVIII
gelatin silver print collage
11 5/8 x 9 3/8in. (29.6 x 23.8cm.)
Executed in 2007

来源

Karsten Schubert, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008.

展览

London, Saatchi Gallery, Out of Focus: Photography, 2012 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
London, Saatchi Gallery, Black Mirror: Art as Social Satire, 2018-2019, p. 82 (illustrated in colour, p. 83).

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荣誉呈献

Stefano Amoretti

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拍品专文

John Stezaker’s practice re-examines the photographic image’s role as a document, souvenir and symbol of modernity. For his ‘Marriage’ series, Stezaker spliced together publicity shots of classic film stars; like the Exquisite Corpses of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, these photo-collages become uncanny, chimeric figures. In Marriage (Film Portrait Collage) XXVIII, Stezaker joined together a man and a woman at the mouth, and the work’s title alludes to this fusion. As the artist explains, ‘My work has been about an abandonment to the fragment … I think I started a long time with an idea—that there are too many images in the world and I needed to find a way to negotiate the space between images, but I couldn’t give myself any kind of agenda as broad as that anymore.’ Stezaker’s collages have been exhibited at the Netherlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, the Centre de la Photographie Genève, Geneva, and the Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, among others.

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