"Stage"
2014
collage, graphite gouache on paper
Alice Sfintesco
“Stage”, a collaboration between Alice Sfintesco of France and Kenny Cole, builds off of Sfintesco’s three repeated silhouettes of a female figure. Cole’s placement of a male figure seen from behind and collaged onto the lower left side of the composition establishes our perspective upon the male gaze. The silhouettes are empty outlines or empty canvases, which Sfintesco often fills in with one or two stylized pieces of anatomy. Culling from his stash of vintage newspapers, Cole pastes an array of additional parts and pieces; a magic wand, a player ready at bat, floating hands, sling shot and guns and various bearded and mustachioed heads fitted into missing anatomical place holders. Smoke and brimstone simmers around the edges of their lunar stage while a Victorian female in her puffed up shoulder dress looks away distracted and uninterested.
“Stage”, a collaboration between Alice Sfintesco of France and Kenny Cole, builds off of Sfintesco’s three repeated silhouettes of a female figure. Cole’s placement of a male figure seen from behind and collaged onto the lower left side of the composition establishes our perspective upon the male gaze. The silhouettes are empty outlines or empty canvases, which Sfintesco often fills in with one or two stylized pieces of anatomy. Culling from his stash of vintage newspapers, Cole pastes an array of additional parts and pieces; a magic wand, a player ready at bat, floating hands, sling shot and guns and various bearded and mustachioed heads fitted into missing anatomical place holders. Smoke and brimstone simmers around the edges of their lunar stage while a Victorian female in her puffed up shoulder dress looks away distracted and uninterested.
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