The French, Berlin-based artist Matthieu Bourel creates beautiful collages working on vintage photographs, re-arranging them in various ways in order to reach a strong visual combination.
“Power of images and their combinations. Therefore all kinds of diversions. As well in music, sounds or films. Playing with elements, to make it mine.” Matthieu Bourel said.
His work started from the obsession of collecting all kind of images from books and old magazines. “I like to watch every picture as the point of departure for a story“.
“Various durations, gathered in one, to evoke a fake history or inspire nostalgia for a period in time that never truly existed. Sometimes further to a decision. Mostly random.”
“When successful, all the elements fall together with irony and tension while all other realities are obliterated, leaving the viewer as participant inside the picture, with his own codes and connections. The image then carries the weight of a personal reality. Most important, the final image actually gains a significant evocative quality I could not have expressed in any other way.”
Images courtesy of Matthieu Bourel
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