Video: Painting and more: curious 3-D collages from an amateur photographer from the USA
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
As part of the Accident Series project, young amateur photographer Zeren Badar explores the nature of painting, collage and photography. The series of photographs is quite curious, but many viewers are likely to be uncomfortable with all this edible multi-colored bacchanalia.
For the Accident series, the photographer selected reproductions of classic paintings and combined them in an original way with food, numerous accessories, jewelry and other objects. The result is entertaining, richly textured collages that hint at the aesthetics of Dadaism. The artist himself compares his work with the readymade of the famous Franco-American artist, pioneer of Dadaism Marcel Duchamp. It was Duchamp who first presented objects of absolutely utilitarian everyday life to the viewer as gallery exhibits. Badar, following, in many respects, the same principle, moved into the art space objects that are little associated with art.
The artist admits that in this way he tries to draw attention to his work and tries to present a new look at still life. “With these kinds of collages, I try to create unexpected combinations. I'm trying to find new meanings in the resulting collage. In a way, this is a new type of still life”, - this is how the artist explains his unusual work. Badar was born in Turkey and now lives and works in the United States.
Another unusual artist, fellow artist Zerena Badara, Brazilian Lucas Simões, also practices highly controversial manipulations with a ready-made image in his work. Drawing on all his imagination and ingenuity, Simoens creates interesting collages. Photoburning is a new way of self-expression for the Brazilian craftsman.
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