A selection from our personal archives: John Stezaker – Masks | 2008
Published by Ridinghouse in association with The Approach
56 pages
21 x 26,8 cm
English
The works that the British artist John Stezaker (b. 1949, Worcester) has been creating since the mid-1970s make use of film stills and portraits of actors found in secondhand bookshops, pictures taken from vintages books and old postcards. At their root lies the fascination that the found image can wield, thus reversing the usual hierarchy between artist and artwork: “Images find me rather than the other way round”, as John Stezaker is fond of repeating. Like his Mask series, in which postcards depicting landscapes, grottoes and waterfalls cover, mask-like, the faces of film actors, his collages and image fragments are hallmarked by minimal modes of intervention: cropping, inversion, superposition, juxtaposition, etc.
Published on the occasion of John Stezaker: Masks at The Approach W1, London in 2008.
(from saint-martin-bookshop)
