Italian/Irish-american artist
Marie Conigliaro
Vintage Collage
The Art of
Marie Conigliaro:
Vintage
collage
made the old fashioned way, with
vintage magazines and razor blades.
Marie Conigliaro’s juxtaposition of
images is a direct expression of the
duality often experienced in day-to-day
life. A vital part of the human condition
is the feeling of existing within multiple
realities, with the capacity to encounter
seemingly contradictory emotions, ideas
or attitudes simultaneously. Such is the
draw of surrealism, and artists such as
Hieronymus Bosch or Pieter Bruegel,
as they offer imagery and fantasy of an
antiqued, dreamlike quality that left a
definite impression on a young Marie.
For her, collage is a depiction of the
fragmented nature of the world we live
in, but also of its togetherness. Different
and disjointed elements of this world
and beyond can be brought together as
one through this medium.
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