Warped, Sliced, Diced, Cut-Up Face Art

São Paulo-based artist Lucas Simões has sliced up some more of his signature portraiture with four fresh works — melting mouths around, fracturing eye sockets and turning all other facial features into expressive abstractions. There’s something violent about the series, as if the faces were smashed and fell away in gooey swirls of skin or splintered apart like intricate floorboards. We dig this sort of stuff, even if it’s not made out of porn tits.

The Meataphors of Fabien Souche

Is the collage work of French artist Fabien Souche just cockful of dick puns or brimming with a sophisticated treatise on gender? Are these porn stars blowing or blowing cigars? Is Marilyn a piece of meat? You sort out all this aggressive sausage. Or just gawk. Spotted by Happy Famous Artists at Palais de Tokyo.

New New Futurism: Portraits of Digital Overload

Raw dimensions of these digital collages from Alex Fischer are actually in the thousands of pixels. “Human nature is a fallible and susceptible state,” he writes. As in, you never know when you and your birch trees will melt into a vortex of warped-pixel run-off, Francis Bacon-esque figures and machine-on-machine-on-machine hell?

Hacking Photography With Chrono Cubism

Brazilian photographer Diego Kuffer slices and dices time and space into chunky square bits with what he calls “hacking the idea of photography.” The result: rigid geometrical collages of ferris wheels, streets and staircases, populated by people trailing themselves through time. Think bit art meets Duchamp or Ellen Stagg sans flesh and curves.

Haunted Mirrors, Scrambled Eyes

Here’s your mid-week helping of collage art, courtesy of Allison Diaz’s series “Haunted Mirrors.” It’s razor edged surrealism from cut-up, criss-crossed vintage materials. Pretty neat. Pretty creepy.

Fragmented Dudus Coke and Lola Dupré’s Armies of Eyes

With a recent nod from Huh Magazine, Glasgow’s artist Lola Dupré is burning up the interwebs with hand-sliced ‘n’ glued photo-collage. Lola doubles and warps vintage medical illustrations, portraits, randomness and colaborators’ originals into a layered Louise Bourgeois, a blobby Jamaican don, tripled-crotch in nylons and so much more.

Collage Artist Will Brutalize Your Eyes

Florian Kuhlmann is insane. His work is wild with superblasterescalationpower (2010) and you really have to see it up close in all their mind-bending, breasty, neon, explosive detail.  It comments on happenings, and you won’t like it. For example: “For the big bored majority of us 9/11 happened in the media. It was a most spectacular and exciting day.” Hurt your eyes with his collage-fest here.

Here’s a Russian artist who’s into her extremely-early twenties, yet she’s already a double threat of paste-up salvage art and ethereal photography. See a gallery full of gilded collage, exquisite portraits, deformed insects and lusty dolls from “Alexa Nika” below. Read more »