Friday, January 20, 2012

exquisite corpse


This is my latest piece, done in collaboration with artists Claude-Aimee Villeneuve and Joanne Kielo. We are exhibiting at Galerie Ouest and our vernissage is tonight. The show is called Exquisite Corpse.

In the 1920's, the Surrealists developed a game that involved creating a collage of words or pictures. It was played with several people, each of whom wrote a phrase or drew an image on a sheet of paper, then folded it to conceal what they created and passed it on to the next person, who added their contribution. Only at the end of the game was the whole poem or creation revealed. The name Cadavre Exquis or Exquisite Corpse was taken from the first phrase that was generated by this game: "The exquisite corpse--shall drink--the young wine".

The concept of this show was similar. Three artists team up. Each artist chooses a section of the body and creates a piece independently of the other two collaborators. We then meet to reveal our pieces to one another and to connect our works to create a single piece.

My section of the torso was highly personal and reflects how I was feeling after the death of my father this summer. Scroll down for some detail shots.








6 comments:

Kathy Van Kleeck said...

Kate!
Exquisite in every way ...

mansuetude said...

wow

lynne h said...

okay, so first of all, it's so good to SEE you here, kate! and second of all, yes, this is purely exquisite, as per usual for anything that you set your hands and heart to.

i love everything about this, and the cast paper is the perfect receptacle for each ingredient...

always love to you...

lynne

Jeane Myers said...

I really have no words to describe what an amazing piece this is - your work is so deep and on the other side of the 'edge' - this was very exciting to see xo

Carole Reid said...

Kate, words can not explain the beauty of this piece!

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