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Chair by David Hockney

I thought that this style of montage is very interesting. Although the actual object is being distorted, yet one can see very clearly what the object is. It's compelling to me because I didn't know that montage could be done this way and it somehow evoke a kind of disturbed feeling. Maybe because I have the urge to rearrange the photos because it's distorted. Haha. But it provides a feeling of: there is more than meets the eye, because of the layering. One may start wondering just how many layers is involved here? But to link this to surrealism I guess color distortion is needed to strengthen the disturbed feeling and more elements to be manipulated, lets say give the pigeon at the corner of the montage 2 heads etc.












Tryptichon:
Destruction of a Hero and Construction of the Man
by Alessandro Bavari

Summarizing the story of the artwork:
This is actually a 3 part series staged photography, photomontage and manipulation work. It attempts to portray the fragility of men on one hand, and a men who can "hold a mountain on one finger" with the will to attain power, to survive and restort to the use of violence. "The symbolic statements rely entirely on body images with the concept that men's body may mirror even more than the face" that is thought to be an essential part of human biography.

http://www.alessandrobavari.com








Alessandro Bavari, 2001:

When I realized TRYPTICHON, deconstruction of a Hero and reconstruction of the Man, I painted once more a human body without face, being its absence (subrogated by the fragments of the head of a statue) not a synonymous of anonymity but the magnification of an anti-individualistic ideal, aimed to representing the man in his whole universality. In TRYPTICHON the absolute protagonist is a vital body, impetuous and vibrant, that just like a sculpture is dismembered and reassembled, becoming the allegory of the history of mankind. This body will get to temper its own exuberance transforming into a sublime and transcendental object, but at the same time fragile and unstable, in which the balance of body and soul is kept by a thin rope tied to a twig, and the balance of mind and knowledge is counter balanced by a head held in the palm of a hand, with the awareness that this will be an equilibrium forever unstable and swinging, on the edge of the infinite abyss of the eternity.



My thoughts:

I have always love morbid stuffs. Haha. So When I came across Bavari's artwork I was filled with awe. I wondered how he actually photoshoped the images to give that dramatic curves and color effects, and is impressed with the content of his work that is disturbing and morbid. To me surrealism is like his artwork. It involves the objectification of living things esp. human body parts and present them not in horrific way but in a beautiful yet very disturbing manner. Surrealism to me, is the opening up an window for imagination and presenting realistic issues in a dreamy and unrealistic way. Yet this unrealistic way provides a clear critique of reality. So yeps, I am more into veristic surrealism.