Galerie Simpson is delighted to launch this unique couple of gravure prints.
Stezaker appropriates publicity shots of film stars from the 1930s and 1940s. Cutting and juxtaposing the images once intended to communicate glamour and familiarity, Stezaker's couple is distinguished by an air of disquiet; redolent of alienation they are caught in a witty photographic limbo. His intervention is both subtle and brutal.
Polymer Gravure on Hahnemuhle 300 gsm, and on a paper size of 40.5 x 47 cms, they are published in an edition of 125.
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John Stezaker graduated from the Slade School of Art in 1973. He was recently the subject of a major retrospective at The Whitechapel Gallery, London (2011). Until 2006 he was Senior Tutor in Critical and Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art in London.
His first work with collage were photomontages he made at the Slade in 1968; he arranged fragments from the background of adverts into a Mondrian-like grid. He moved from photomontage to collages which he has been working on since the early 70s (his work was included in New Art show of 1972 at the Hayward Gallery). He explains 'To me, montage approaches the world of photographic images as if they’re kind of particles of speech, and tries to combine them as words to make meaning. My position is the opposite, it’s about the total illegibility of images.'
He has been compared to Bataille, Debord, Surrealism (The Independent said post neo-surrealist) and been recognised as a key influence on the YBAs and contemporary art. His source material includes 1930s and 1940s publicity shots of film stars, vintage landscape photographs and topographical images of Prague from second-hand book shops in Hampstead (deposited by Jewish emigrees). He is recognised not only for the theoretical depth of his work but also its delicacy and poetry. He says 'you can only get a feeling of the inviolable purity and sanctity of the emulsion of a photograph by violating it'
John Stezaker is represented by The Approach Gallery.
2012
Out Of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery, London
2011
John Stezaker (solo show), Whitechapel Gallery, London, touring to Mudam, Luxembourg and Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
2010
John Stezaker: Silkscreens (solo show), Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
Lost Images (solo show), Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany
Tabula Rasa (solo show), The Approach, London
HEAD, The Approach, London
2009
Richard Grey Gallery, Chicago
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Friedrich Petzel, New York
2008
Masks, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia
Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf
Fumetti, GAK- Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen
2007
Two part show: Marriages, Karsten Schubert, London
Masks, The Approach, London
The Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
Project Room, Yvon Lambert, Paris
2006
John Stezaker (solo show), The Approach, London, UK
Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, Germany
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA
Bridges and other Metaphors, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK John Stezaker,
White Columns, New York, USA
2005
Archiv & Erzählung [Archives and Narration]: John Stezaker and T.J. Wilcox, Kunstverein Muenchen, Munich, Germany
Cut, The Approach, London
2004
The Third Person Archives and Other Works, The Approach, London
Interview coming soon.
Dominic Eichler, John Stezaker, Frieze Magazine Issue 136 (January-February 2011)
Laura Cumming, John Stezaker; Moving Portraits, The Guardian (3oth January 2011)
Brian Dillon, John Stezaker, What a Carve Up, The Guardian ( 29th January 2011)
Dan Kidner, John Stezaker, Frieze Magazine (12th December 2007)
'Untitled' 2007 & 'L' 2007 (Pair of prints)
Polymer Gravure | |
Edition of 125 | |
Hahnemuhle 300 gsm 40.5 x 47 cms |
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