sammy slabbinck research
12/09/2017
Over the summer I began to think very differently about the concept of my ideas when relating to death and the ideologies of how people may experience 'near death' activities. I went onto pinterest when I began losing my trail of thought towards my theme and discovered new pieces of work in which gave me new inspiration.
The image below was the beginning to a new ideology of what i think those who have died will experience after death, the whole idea of surrealism being based around individuals from a past era going to a place outside of the earth seems like something you would have during a dream.
This image was created by an artist called Sammy Slabbinck who creates prints through a collage of many different vintage photographs.
The context of Sammy's work incorporates images and inspiration from the 20th century which was especially aimed towards the 1970's.
The compositions and chorography were produced as a collage to represent the 'absurdity of popular a consumerist culture' which is commonly known from the past and present society. His work can be seen in the reflection of being humourus and witty but at the same time, very negative. A word used specifically in his biography is 'foreboding' which is recognised as being a prediction of something evil about to occur.
His compositions are created by disfiguring the sizing of images and are mainly based around the cut outs of old vintage style images of people combining with abnormal backgrounds (mainly places). This image in particular stood out to me when I deepening my thoughts on the background image which appears to be set in space, I personally believe that this collage has been created as an ideology or a theory in which the artist believes in; the ideology could be that when humans die, they begin an afterlife on another planet.
The colours on the collage seem to look very vintage which portrays to me that the artist has purposely made it clear that he is focusing on individuals from the past who lived in earlier centuries, The cold colours on the collage such as blues and whites look very dusty and old which says to me that the artist wants to create the effect of the image being created within the past, I have taken inspiration from this as I would like to experiment with non-modern primary and secondary colours within a collage of surrealism. Also, the line and formation in some of his images seem very abnormal just like the distortion of parts of his collage , in some of his images he would put a human body shown bigger than a cut-out building or place, portraying to me that he wants the viewer to feel like the imager is personal to them as if they could relate to it.
The exaggeration of scale, transformation of rotation, colour gives the image a hint of humour towards a messages that could be important to the viewer, however, I also believe his work tells a story about the past or the change of society throughout time.
This image as really created an eye opener towards my theme and the questioning of 'What happens afterlife? Is there an afterlife' and the research of abandonment of places, When I acknowledged the background of this image being out of space/on another planet I linked it to my own research about the abandonment of places.
I linked it to the abandonment of derelict buildings and areas as other planets are untouched by humans and we do not have any idea of any other species living on them, this is where I began to
research this artist even more about the way he uses collage with a vintage display of images; his work also adds a sense of humour to the work he produces through the surrealism of extraordinary places in which we ash humans do not get to see.
The background Sammy chooses to use in his work interests me highly as I believe it gives a very different approach every time, for example, using a real life image of a nuclear bomb explosion whilst only adding red and white on top gives me the effect that he is making it more exaggerated and serious in comparison to viewing the image in black and white.
I also love the ideology of adding a spacious background because it creates the effect of looking at an image sent by somebody who has died, it gives me the feeling of past life and as if the artist is creating a storyline based on his theory of the unknown after death.
Although Sammy uses cut of images from research of the media and magazines I believe it would create a much stronger effect to layer a wet medium on top of the background (paint, wax etc), creating texture and a 3D perspective of space. I am going to be experimenting with the techniques Sammy uses to make his work look so contemporary and surrealistic by finding images that link to my theme, maybe researching into the political aspect of a period in time that struck the world.
The background Sammy chooses to use in his work interests me highly as I believe it gives a very different approach every time, for example, using a real life image of a nuclear bomb explosion whilst only adding red and white on top gives me the effect that he is making it more exaggerated and serious in comparison to viewing the image in black and white.
I also love the ideology of adding a spacious background because it creates the effect of looking at an image sent by somebody who has died, it gives me the feeling of past life and as if the artist is creating a storyline based on his theory of the unknown after death.
Although Sammy uses cut of images from research of the media and magazines I believe it would create a much stronger effect to layer a wet medium on top of the background (paint, wax etc), creating texture and a 3D perspective of space. I am going to be experimenting with the techniques Sammy uses to make his work look so contemporary and surrealistic by finding images that link to my theme, maybe researching into the political aspect of a period in time that struck the world.
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