John stezaker

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The 11th edition of the SP-Arte fair opens April 9 in São Paulo, with a VIP preview on April 8. The fair will include 159 galleries from around the world, including blue-chip outfits like David Zwirner, Gagosian, and White Cube, and a solid helping of Brazilian galleries. Below, a look at the works they will […]

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John Stezaker

Mask CCV by John Stezaker

John Stezaker’s surreal, handmade collages—comprised of film stills, publicity portraits, and postcards collected from thrift stores and bookshops—are masterful studies in contradiction. They are familiar and nostalgic, but also unexpected and strange. Like a Coen Brothers film or Flannery O’Connor short story, they walk that compelling line between comedy and tragedy.

John Stezaker is a British conceptual artist born in 1949. For the past fifty years, Stezaker has been making some of the most arresting and disturbing collages from found photographs, postcards, book plates, and magazines. A graduate of Fine Art from the Slade School of Art, London, Stezaker reacted against the trend for bright, … Continue reading "Face Values: The Surreal and Disturbing Collage Portraits of John Stezaker"

www.likeyou.com - CUT - Cris Brodahl, Bruce Conner, John Stezaker, Martin Westwood - The Approach - GB-London

This first major exhibition of John Stezaker offers a chance to see work by an artist whose subject is the power in the act of looking itself.