Berlin-based artist Matthieu Bourel slices up the past to create these fantastically surreal images. Famous faces like Gregory Peck and Yul Brynner multiply into forms which are both person and sculpture, disturbing and beautiful.
Bourel says he likes “to evoke a fake history or inspire nostalgia for a period in time that never truly existed.” But it all starts with his source material: “The obsession of collecting disparate images from books, old magazines and other found material becomes as much a part of the emerging image as the mark-making. A piece often becomes about the search and desire to combine those emergent narrative symbols that seem charged with a familiar yet distant emotion.”
His passion for remixing imagery is evident in the prolific collections on his personal website. There you can find animated GIFs, wall sized collages, in-the-moment sketches on photographs, and commissioned work. Stop by his shop too.