Video: Into small pieces. Lola Dupre, the artist who blows up portraits
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
To create something, sometimes you just need to destroy something. This is what the Chinese photographer Qi Wei did in his project of exploded-torn flowers called Exploding Flowers, and the French artist Lola Dupré, master of portraits and collages, "smashed" into small fragments celebrity portraits, and combined them into one original art project. What we see in the photographs is preceded by a very capacious and painstaking work. Each shard is a fragment of a large portrait, which Lola Dupre cuts and attaches to the canvas by hand. It takes about a dozen identical portraits to collage them into one so as to create the illusion of a kaleidoscope, a frozen explosion and frozen flying fragments. After all, this is the main highlight of Lola Dupre's work.
Indeed, only the lazy does not paint or lay out portraits of famous people in mosaics. Lola Dupre can hardly be called lazy - some collages consist of thousands of small fragments. The original portraits evoke not only curiosity, but also the desire to see them with our own eyes. Connoisseurs of unusual contemporary art can do this by visiting the exhibition of "broken" portraits at the Phone Booth Gallery in California, which will run there until November 5. Or by visiting Lola Dupre's personal website.
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