2011-04-25

Exhibitions: John Stezaker @ Whitechapel Gallery

By making collages from classic movie stills, vintage postcards and book illustations British artist John Stezaker (born 1949) gives old imanges a new meaning.
His famous "Mask" series gave me the impression of glamourous life of celebrities still connecting with nature and everyday life. It gave me impression that despite fame, wealth, fashion and exceptional life style, people pictured in the images are still down to earth and not that far from nature. We do not connect with nature that much these days, nor really think of it while trying to manage everyday life, although work of John Stezaker made me stop and think, rather than run again.

John Stezaker Mask XXXV, 2007, collage

Although, despite really original idea and quite impressive finals, I wouldn't say that this is the work I admire or it wakes some new ideas up in my head. The originality and aproach is very impressive, leaves one to think of so many different things, unfortunatelly it faded as soon as I left the gallery.. We all do have our priorities, likes and dislikes, and I might be very wrong or silly to critisize. And to put my very own opinion aside - at the end of the day this work is worth seeing.


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