{"product_id":"peter-sylveire-correspondances-1","title":"Peter Sylveire — Correspondances #1","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf cutting and pasting is firstly a child's past time - a game, its toys are most often printed matter, reproductions. In adult hands the ‘ludic’ liberty the medium affords is refined by experience, taking on a serious edge. Ordinarily collage consist of images stuck on top of one another. Using the technique of marquetry, my own are integrated to sit on the same level like pieces in a puzzle. Postcards are my material, although occasionally I have used greeting cards, beer mats and prostitute’s publicity found in telephone boxes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlmost everything on earth, including the entirety of its culture, even the planet itself pictured from space, is reproduced on these modest cardboard rectangles, with writing on their backs.  Derivative of travel and recreation postcards (though less so with the rise of digital communication), are the archetypal item visitors come away with from holidays and museums, and their messages are predominantly of a cheerful nature - the mood of my collages is in keeping with the spirit of their material. This is expressed in the humour of their titles. At little cost, the world exists to hand, to assemble and dis-assemble at will. It's a kind of card-game for iconoclasts, requiring as much luck as skill. Using scalpel and sellotape I pair images, creating unlikely marriages - the remoter the match the more illuminating the experiment. The momentary contextual dizzying produces the pleasure of surprise - affording at best, the education of seeing the old and known anew. The imagery featured is always inscribed, enabling an educational potential. My conscious mind could never invent the uncanny combinations that occur. Juxtaposing a Modigliani nude for example, and an image entirely extraneous to it, frees one for a second, to see the woman unencumbered by the knowledge of who painted her. A person’s appreciation of the spindly figure of a man walking, is perhaps purer for briefly forgetting that it was a sculptor called Giacometti who created him. Original works composed of other people's material hung in an art gallery without falling foul of any copyright law, inspires the incredible notion that other people's art is in some way, all of ours. Certainly there is cheek in appropriating the haloed work of the famous in this way but such mischief can be liberating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppearing from the sunny side of irony, soliciting smiles rather than furrowed brows, my postcard pairings seek to provide a droll descant to Art. Their irreverence strives to be at the same time reverential.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Sylveire","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51658233151794,"sku":"CORR26-PETER-SYLVEIRE-1","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0013\/4869\/8160\/files\/Peter_Sylveire_01.jpg?v=1787762170","url":"https:\/\/thecurators.com\/es\/products\/peter-sylveire-correspondances-1","provider":"The Curators","version":"1.0","type":"link"}