research extra: Montage

The Stages of Restoration: The use of these vintage images connects the past as an important part of our present. More often than not, we do not know the stories behind these pictures -- leaving us to project our own meaning and history. Alongside these projections, habits and psychological patterns are passed from one generation to the next. When self-defeating habits rise to our consciousness, and more important when we act on changing these routines, we can break free from what confines us. The cut-out silhouettes implies a sense of loss. These open figures are the play of photography whose shapes are framing new environments; it is a frame within a frame. Though we don’t see the people whose bodies are removed, we see their gestures and absences. Not only do we naturally perform those gestures, we learn them.

Meanwhile, the isolated figurines reenter the contemporary world with a new context. These remote figures have accomplished a journey through their dark nights of the soul and now have the capacity to reveal their deeper, truer selves. Once we fully release our past and other collective memories, we create a stronger sense of place. Dedicating oneself to venture through a vulnerable, lonely path leads to shedding light on the subconscious and conscious voices in our minds. Commitment -- to personal growth and healing -- is ultimate freedom.

April Gertler

Arnulf Rainer

Barbara Kruger

Bert Simons

Bobby Neel Adams

Boo Ritson

Carlos Tarrats

Carolle Benitah

Chris Engman

Claire Pestaille

Clunie Reid

Cy Twombly

Dale Yudelman

Daniel Gordon

Danny Ivan

Danwen Xing

David Adey

David Zilber

These days, creative polymaths are commonplace. But have you ever come across a professional butcher-cum-photographer, as happy working in fine dining establishments across Canada as he is wielding a camera? Enter David Chaim Jacob Zilber, whose latest series Empiricism is a colour-heavy exercise in the creation of parallels. Like all photographers, Zilber doesn’t always get it right, but when he does, he really does…

Key words: Parallel - Narrative - Colour - Everyday - Juxtapose - Spliced - Memory

Dessi Terzieva

Dryden Goodwin

Ed Spence

Amazing collaged photographs. Half the image is painstakingly pixellated by cutting the image into tiny squares and reassembling in graded patterns. These already busy scenes are transformed to a sort of digital representation. All the information is still there but representation has been lost through an ordered explosion.

Key words: Pixel - Mosaic - Collage - People - Digital - Square - Pattern - Information - Colour

Ellen Gallagher

ELT Mesens

Emma Spertus

Fong Qi Wei

This series of images are mostly landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes, and they are a single composite made from sequences that span 2-4 hours, mostly of sunrises and sunsets. The basic structure of a landscape is present in every piece. But each panel or concentric layer shows a different slice of time, which is related to the adjacent panel/layer. The transition from daytime to night is gradual and noticeable in every piece, but would not be something you expect to see in a still image.

Key words: Time - Buildings - Sunrise - Sunset - Collage - Dimensions - Transition - Change - Colour - Light - City

Gordon Matta Clark

Grace Weston

Gregory Scott

Gwon Osang

Hannah Hoch

Hayley Warnham

Januz Miralles

Photographer Januz Miralles from Philippines explores the beauty and fragility of the woman’s body with care and delicacy. Mixing photography with drawing and painting techniques, in mostly muted tones (but sometimes with bold strokes of red), he manages to highlight a wide range of emotions both in his subjects.

Key words: Female - Sexuality - Paint - Portrait - Mask - Emotions - Colour - Tone - Body - Beauty

Jared Steffensen

Jens Ullrich

Joachim Schmid

John Clang

John Stezaker

Jonathas de Andrade

Joseba Elorza

This Spanish artist creates surreal photomontage compositions by blending imagery from different times and sources. The resulting narratives are clever, witty and thought provoking.

Key words: Time - Surreal - Narrative - Past - Future - History - Events - Fantasy - Layered - Space

Kazuya Tsuji

Krzysztof Wodiczko

Laura Plageman

Letha Wilson

Levi van Veluw

Levi Mandel

Linder

Lola Dupre

Scotland-based artist Lola Dupre cuts up photographs and collages the snips into mind-bendingly weird and witty deformed portraits. She is a master of scissors, glue, and surrealism. "For me, I take a certain delight in the ready-made colour schemes and the detail of the images I work from."

Key words: Portrait - Surrealism - Collage - Found Imagery - Famous - Iconic - Repetition - Media

Ludmila Steckelberg

Lynette Miller

Maria Aparicio Puentes

Photographer: Rachel L. Hudson

Photographer: Claudio A. Troncoso Rojas.

Photographer: Berta Pfirsich

Photographer: Alessandra d'Urso

Maurizio Anzeri

Michael Macku

Michael Mapes

Michael Mapes creates elaborate specimen boxes by dissecting photographs and then compartmentalizing individual fragments within plastic bags, glass vials, magnifiers, in gelatin capsules and on insect pins. The boxes exist in an uncanny area between photography and sculpture, functioning both as portraits and as fascinating scientific canvases that make you question the the logic behind the organization of each piece.

Key words: Specimen - Display - Fragments - Dissects - Explode - Science - Portrait - Organise

Neil Barrett

Odette England

Oliver Herring

Paul Butler

Philip Kwame Apagya

Philipp Igumov

Richard Galpin

Richard Vergez

Rob + Nick Carter

Rob Mulholland

Robert Gligorov

Robert GLIGOROV
Untitled (octopus with bird)
2001
Cibachrome on aluminium
Ed. of 3
60 x 68 cm
23.6 x 26.8 inches

Robert GLIGOROV
Focus
2006-07
Digital print on aluminium
Diptych
Ed. of 3
various sizes

Robert GLIGOROV
Proiettile
2006-07
Digital print on aluminium
ed. of 3
various sizes

Robert GLIGOROV
The Diver in Elena's House
2002
Cibatransparency on lightbox
Ed. of 3
125 x 125 cm

Courtesy of the artist and Aeroplastics contemporary, Brussels

Rosangela Renno

Ruth Van Beek

Van Beek uses found photographs, amateur family photographs, newspaper clippings and magazine tears in her work, in which she tries to create something that never existed before. “I try to make the animals come to life again by cutting and folding the paper,” she says. “I restrain them in a new shape. This way I turn them into creatures that are silent like stones, but are also showing a tension.” Van Beek’s work represents a more controlled, more intimate breed of collage work. Hibernators cuts and folds common domestic pets and animals into creatures that exist somewhere between photography and collage. Through van Beek’s handy work, the facial features of the animals are often removed—further abstracting them from a sense of space. With the loss of distinguishing features, the altered animals begin to take on new identities.

Key words: Animals - Pets - Domestic - Surreal - Features - Abstract - Identity - Familiar - Strange - Creatures

Ryuta Iida

Key words: Portrait - Layered - Time - Movement - People - Texture - Distort

Sabrin Gschwandtner

Samuel Stern

Key words: Layered - Portrait - Weave - Double - People - Angle - Expression - Movement

Scott Hazard

The objects I make serve as devices for poetic awareness. Looking into them creates an atmosphere of in-betweenness which helps frame the small extractions and resonances of the world featured in each work. Commonplace elements in the natural and built worlds provide points of origin for helping people gain insights and understandings of the landscape around them. My work incorporates extractions from sites in urban and pastoral landscapes, whether the material extracted is local stone or wood, video, or photographs.

Key words: Collage - Torn - In-between - Distance - Portal - Escape - Layered - Space - Hole - 3D

Shaun Kardinal

Shawn Huckins

Slinkachu (blog)

Stephen j Shanabrook & Veronika Georgieva

Suellen Parker

Thomas Robson

Thomas Robson Remixing Fine Art with Appropriation Art to confront received aesthetics and critically re-appraise imagery in a visually saturated world. Art Manifesto: Exploring the role of Artistic Provocateur, attacking the boundaries between graphic design & fine art by subverting and re-contextualising imagery with dramatic visual interventions.