Borden Capalino Works, 2013-2015 |
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| Author:
| Capalino, Borden
Perkins, Frances |
| Editor:
| Hackert, Nicole
Brunnet, Bruno |
| ISBN: | 978-3-86442-126-6 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2015 |
| Publisher: | Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $34.95 |
Book Description:
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You definitely find some bizarre stuff! Borden Capalino's work, which could previously been described as being akin to forensic surrealism, begins as a collection process. Images from craigslist.com are compiled, collated and archived. Based on formal criteria, certain images are then selected, manipulated, dissected, and finally reassembled via a clothing iron. Afterwards they are subjected to, and adorned by a material intervention process. Shunning the art store,...
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You definitely find some bizarre stuff! Borden Capalino's work, which could previously been described as being akin to forensic surrealism, begins as a collection process. Images from craigslist.com are compiled, collated and archived. Based on formal criteria, certain images are then selected, manipulated, dissected, and finally reassembled via a clothing iron. Afterwards they are subjected to, and adorned by a material intervention process. Shunning the art store, Capalino instead looks to the supermarket, hardware store, pharmacy, and pet store for his materials. The result is a strange marriage of photography and sculpture: photographic images are both erased and embellished with objects such as tar, coffee, iodine, dehydrated foods, freeze dried shrimp and worms, which are applied in a patterned and redactive manner. Ultimately, the work of Capalino is part decorative archeology, and partly an urge to make dead surface dance.