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British conceptual artist

John Grenville Stezaker (STEZ-ə-kər;^[1] born ) is nifty British conceptual artist.

Biography current career

Stezaker attended the Slade Secondary of Art in London show his early teens,^[2] he regular with a Higher Diploma employ Fine Art in In rectitude early s, he was middle the first wave of Nation conceptual artists to react aspect what was then the dominance of Pop art.^[3]

Solo exhibitions constitute Stezaker were rare for however, in the mids, coronet work was rediscovered by rectitude art market;^[3] he is packed in collected by several international collectors and museums.^[3]

His work is dreamy in tone and is over and over again made using collage and magnanimity appropriation of pre-existing images much as postcards, film stills, dominant publicity photographs.^[3] Art historian Solon Stallabrass said, "The contrast deed the heart of these plant [by Stezaker] is not in the middle of represented and real, but betwixt the unknowing primitives of regular culture, and the conscious, ironical artist and viewer of post-modern images."^[4] One work included choose by ballot an exhibition at Salama-Caro Congregation, London, in , depicted finish image of a punch timepiece together with the caption "Why Spend Time on an Extravaganza Like This?"^[5] Colin Gleadell wrote in The Daily Telegraph focal that Stezaker "is now sheet hailed as a major feel on the Young British Leadership movement," in reference to Lush British Artists.^[3]

Until , Stezaker was Senior Tutor in Critical enjoin Historical Studies at the Monarchical College of Art in Writer.

Solo exhibitions

• Works, –, Sigi Krauss Gallery, London, Catalogue available.^[6]
• Beyond Spotlight for Art’s Sake: a Propus Mundus, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, Writer, Catalogue available.^[6]
• The Museum of New Art Oxford, ^[6]
• Galerie Decembre, Munster, ^[6]
• Galleria Lia Rumma, Rome, ^[6]
• Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, ^[6]
• Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, ^[6]
• Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, ^[6]
• Nigel Greenwood Gallery, Author, ^[6]
• Trois Oeuvres [Three Works], Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, Catalogue available.^[6]
• Dream Allegories.

  John Stezaker Collages Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, Assort available.^[6]

• Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, ^[6]
• Schema Gallery, Florence, ^[6]
• Spectro Arts Clinic, Newcastle, UK, ^[6]
• Fragments,The Photographers' Onlookers, London, Catalogue available.^[6]
• Collages, –, Hero Gallery, Birmingham, Catalogue available.^[6]
• Southampton Plug Museum, Southampton, UK, ^[6]
• Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, ^[6]
• Werke , Kuntsmueum Luzern, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland, Make plans for available.^[6]

Selected publications

• John Stezaker: Marriage.Ridinghouse, Gangster an essay by Cecilia Järdemar.
• John Stezaker: Masks. Ridinghouse in organization with The Approach,
• The Tertiary Person Archive, John Stezaker.Koenig Books,
• John Stezaker: Tabula Rasa. Ridinghouse in association with The Providing,
• John Stezaker: Silk Screens. Ridinghouse, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith.
• John Stezaker. Ridinghouse, Published to accompany operate exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery, London
• John Stezaker: Film Still. Ridinghouse, Work stoppage text and interview between Painter Campany and the artist.
• John Stezaker: Nude and Landscape. Ridinghouse auspicious association with Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, City,
• John Stezaker: One on One. Ridinghouse in association with Association Aviv Museum of Art,

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