When Art + Album Covers Collide
Back in grad school, I use to sit with a few of my classmates and we’d create ‘exquisite corpses’ during lectures (don’t worry, we all paid attention and all went on to do great things in the arts). If you aren’t familiar with what an exquisite corpse is, it’s when one person folds up a piece of paper, the first person creates the start of a person, place, or thing, then folds the piece again and hands it to someone else to create the next part of the image without seeing what was originally drawn. In the end you end up with a Frankenstein of an image.
Contemporary artist Christian Marclay, b. 1955 has done a number of projects with records over the years and decided to do what you could only call an exquisite corpse on a more interesting scale. In his project titled the Body Mix Series, Marclay created fun, tongue in cheek collages with album covers and thread and when placed together, create an entirely new and entertaining image.
Marclay earned his BFA from my alma mater the Massachusetts College of Art + Design and has had a tremendous career in the arts and has exhibited and sold his works world wide. Check out a few of the collages from this series below.
