28 November at 8pm
The Palace Emporium, 37 White Rock, Hastings
Photology presents, for PhotoHastings 2016, two talks by two leading artists in Photomontage whose parallel paths (both were born in 1949 and studied at The Slade) describe very different journeys.
John Stezaker in conversation with writer & critic John Slyce
Taking classic movie stills, vintage postcards and book illustrations, Stezaker makes collages to give old images a new meaning. By adjusting, inverting and slicing separate pictures together to create unique new works of art, Stezaker explores the subversive force of found images.
Whitechapel Gallery, 2011
John Stezaker (British, b.1949) is one of the leading artists in contemporary photographic collage and appropriation. Employing vintage photographs, old Hollywood film stills, travel postcards and other printed matter, Stezaker creates seductive and fascinating small-format collages that bear qualities of Surrealism, Dada, and found art. Indeed, in referring to the large compendium of images he has collected, Stezaker asserts that the images “find him,” not the other way around. With surgical-like precision, Stezaker excises, overlays and conjoins distinct images to create new personalities, landscapes and scenes.
John Stezaker studied at the Slade School of Art, and taught Critical and Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art in London. In September 2012, he was awarded the Deutsche Börse photography prize. Stezaker’s work has been exhibited internationally since the 1990’s and has been adopted in renowned museum collections around the world such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Saatchi Collection, London, and the Tate Modern, London.
Richard Gray Gallery Chicago, 2016.
Image Credit: John Stezaker. Mask XXXV, 2007
Information: John Stezaker | John Slyce
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