All Things Art & Photography
Many people have worked in this vein of collaging pictures through the history of art. See David Hockey’s wonderful collages… While the technique is not new these images by Sohei Nishino are particularly ambitious.
Diorama Map /Rio de Janeiro via the artist web site
The Venice Biennale or La Biennale as it is better known in Italy opens today June 1, 2013.
55th International Art Exhibition: The Encyclopedic Palace
1st June > 24th November 2013
The title chosen by curator Massimiliano Gioni for the 55th International Art Exhibition is Il Palazzo Enciclopedico / The Encyclopedic Palace. Massimiliano Gioni introduced the choice of theme evoking the Italo-American self-taught artist Marino Auriti who “on November 16, 1955 filed a design with the US Patent office depicting his Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), an imaginary museum that was meant to house all worldly knowledge, bringing together the greatest discoveries of the human race, from the wheel to the satellite. Auriti’s plan was never carried out, of course, but the dream of universal, all-embracing knowledge crops up throughout history, as one that eccentrics like Auriti share with many other artists, writers, scientists, and prophets who have tried – often in vain – to fashion an image of the world that will capture its infinite variety and richness.”
via the Venice Biennale web site
The Folk Artist Marino Auriti and his creation.
Ryan Adams with Laura Marling – Oh my sweet Carolina
Music Break: Ryan Adams Laura Marling
There are just not enough photo surrealist’s in the world for my liking and the young and untrained Toshiko Okanoue is one of the best. In 6 years she knocked out over 100 works and had a couple of shows in Tokyo in the 1950’s. She then stopped making art abruptly after marrying (the not so remarkable) painter Kazutomo Fujino.
Her photo-collages as she says,
“…fit my dreams. Those scraps of my fantasies turned into strangely interesting things, – things I would not have thought of. Emboldened and delighted by the results, I made one collage after another.”
Her work was forgotten for 40 years but now she is getting the attention she deserves via two books from the great Nazraeli Press which got her into a show at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
via nice article in Foam Magazine
The Collages of Toshiko Okanoue