Pablo Picasso. Collage by Jean-Pierre Seguin

Pablo Picasso.
Jean-Pierre Seguin
Canada

Collage
Size: 4.8 H x 3.5 W x 1 in
$1,200

Collage: Beads on Cardboard and Plastic.

I built a portrait using thousands of color beads in order, again, to obtain multiple perceptions of the image.I’ve used several two-dimensional strategies to disturb viewers’ perceptions, strategies that prompt them to move about and try broaching the portrait from different distances. Through his or her motion, the spectator becomes a kind of zoom lens, varying focal length to produce effects of nearness and distance. Approaching the image to get a better look, viewers lose their grip on the identifiable reality of the photograph; reference points that normally serve to guide viewers of photography evade them here. The spectator must then fall back on a purely formal, even abstract reading.

Subjects: Pop Culture/Celebrity
Styles: Realism

Mediums: Beads