John Stezaker once said “so much emerges from what I destroy” (Buck, L., 2011 p.36). This could have come from the mouth of Gordon Matta-Clark. Stezaker’s collages seem to come out of the surrealist imagination: they are fragmentary and dream-like and created from found images. These dream-like and unsettling narratives drew from film stills, glamorous publicity shots from the golden age of Hollywood and postcards.
John Stezaker Untitled (For Angus) Film Still Collage II, 2009
Old Mask IV 2006
Mask XXXV, 2007
Carla Sorell notes that “in the Mask series old portraits are mixed with found postcards, placed precisely over the face in such a way that the void created by the landscape become somehow representative of the subjects psyche” (Sorrell, C., 2011 p.21).
Sources:
Buck, L., (2011), “So much emerges from what I destroy” Art Newspaper 20 No220 Jan 2011 p.36
Sorrel, C (2011) “The Face Beneath” Crafts no228 Ja/F p.20-21
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