LA based artist Gordon Magnin is another current artist that uses the medium of collage and cut-outs. Creating collages using appropriated photographic images, Magnin challenges the intended "intended objective, interpretation, and significance" of our daily diet of celebrity, advertising, and consumer based images... The work he is doing is very interesting and the reasoning behind it similar to why I chose to do collage within my first and second editions of the modern gentleman newspaper. Found images, originally intended to direct and control public perception, consumer activity, and self image, are modified to create a sense of ambiguity to heighten mystery and defy closure. I think his work is fantastic, and a great reference point for my work at the moment.
4.15.2011
GORDON MAGNIN
LA based artist Gordon Magnin is another current artist that uses the medium of collage and cut-outs. Creating collages using appropriated photographic images, Magnin challenges the intended "intended objective, interpretation, and significance" of our daily diet of celebrity, advertising, and consumer based images... The work he is doing is very interesting and the reasoning behind it similar to why I chose to do collage within my first and second editions of the modern gentleman newspaper. Found images, originally intended to direct and control public perception, consumer activity, and self image, are modified to create a sense of ambiguity to heighten mystery and defy closure. I think his work is fantastic, and a great reference point for my work at the moment.