Collages from fragments of posters torn down on the streets of different cities by Michael Anderson

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Of course, we all love to travel, and would like to visit, or have already visited, London, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, New York to enjoy the beauty of these cities. But Michael Anderson goes there for a completely different - he tears off a bunch of posters and posters on the streets, then arranges them in such a way that an unusual collage of thousands of different pieces is obtained.

“I try to find a balance between abstraction and the original image in the composition in order to achieve a static effect, or vice versa, a non-static effect in the final result,” says Michael Anderson of his work. Pieces of his collages are taken from the streets of the most different cities, from the streets of the world's most important capitals. We can say that the street is his canvas, although this is not street art.

“Ultimately, these collages end up with a non-linear narrative full of black humor,” continues Michael Anderson. “Using these rich, informative posters taken from the streets different citiesI am trying to create a real collision of energies caused by an unusual combination of pieces. People experience a very strange feeling when they see them in such a combination that they have never seen before, while recognizing separate fragments."

“My art is about the world we live in. My collages are a kind of puzzle of collective unconsciousness, evidence of what it means to be alive today,”sums up this peculiar artist from, of course, New York. He was born there in 1968. He did not graduate from any institutes of art or design, he is self-taught. In addition to collages, he did a lot for the theater: he was engaged in scenery, and stage design, and even played in productions. About his collages from different cities and other equally interesting projects can be found on his website.

Collages, meanwhile, are now very popular among fans of interesting creativity. Among the latest works on this topic, I would like to highlight the works of Troy Dugas, collected from the labels of each product purchased by the artist, and vintage works by Marek Hpyduk in the style of the beginning of the 20th century, which are a combination of modern drawing technologies and clippings from old newspapers.