Carol Jazzar
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The collages in this current series offer a clear reading. They are easy to look at. Cut out images are sparsely placed on a white or black sheet of paper. Each component symbolizes a thought and keep it's integrity within the composition while contributing to a central idea. Some of these collages spurt out spontaneously. Others took planning and were approached as a way to work out my inner tensions.
Made almost entirely with Artforum magazines, “the bible of contemporary art” * according to writer Sarah Thornton, these cut outs are for the most part pictures of works belonging to other artists which have been shown or are about to be exhibited in galleries and institutions all over the world.
Through the use of these images, I am appropriating other people’s works and ideas, ‘fishing’ into the collective consciousness and I reinterpreting them into new context and perspective as a way to re-write “my own bible”.
Venus Rising (from the subconscious’s water)
2015
Artforum magazine cut out on archival paper. 23” X 30”
WE / Love The People
2015
Artforum magazine cut out on archival paper. 23” X 30”
In The House of Love and Death
2015
Artforum magazine cut out on archival paper. 23” X 30”
head in the cloud feet on the ground: The Way We Are
2015
Artforum magazine cut out on archival paper. 23” X 3
Come Together
2015
Artforum magazine cut out on archival paper. 23” X 30”
a dream: The Way To Escape
2015
Artforum magazine cut out on archival paper. 23” X 30”
Wrapped Tour: greatest hits: Let My Music Play
2015
Artforum magazine cut out on archival paper. 23” X 30”
MOTHER AND THE GODS OF CHANGE.
2015
Artforum magazine cut out on archival paper. 23” X 30”
Shit it out (It’ll turn to green)
2015
Artforum magazine cut out on archival paper. 23” X 30”
HIGHER GROUND ( I am on my way)
2015
Artforum magazine cut out on archival paper. 23” X 30”
THE NEW EARTH (inside out).
2015
Artforum magazine cut out on archival paper. 23” X 30”