Video: Collages from geographic maps by Matthew Cusick
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Many people use geographic maps as material to create collages or canvas for painting. But only a few manage to do it as well as the American author Matthew Cusick.
Matthew Cusick cuts old maps and atlases into small pieces and combines them into completely new images. At the same time, the author must take into account such features of maps as, for example, the density of the grid of meridians and parallels or the color scale, achieving depth and expressiveness with their help. One gets the feeling that Matthew is more likely to "paint" with particles of cards, overlaying them on the canvas, like strokes, rather than simply combine these elements with each other.
Matthew Cusick is equally good at creating images of people and various landscapes. One of his most recent works is called “maps that go nowhere” and is a series of collages depicting highways. For these works, the author used illustrations from old atlases from 1872-1945. The choice of material is quite symbolic, since it was at this time that the geography of the whole world changed in the course of dramatic events. The combination of old maps and expressways in Cusick's works is the author's interpretation of the history of the US struggle for the right to be called a superpower.
Matthew Cusick was born in 1970 in New York. Graduated from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1993 with a BA in Fine Arts. The author currently lives and works in Dallas, Texas. In addition to creating collages, Cusick is also fond of painting.
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