Tag: Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)]

The Art of Cut & Paste / The Cut & Paste of Art

Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)] by Talan Memmott works from a selection of artist’s self-portraits and biographies, cuts them up, and reassembles them into new wholes, pairing a portrait and a biography assembled from factual parts never intended to interact, and presents an (almost) wholly fictitious painter. Now the art of remix is nothing new. In the 50’s and 60’s there…