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London-based artist JOHN STEZAKER has been working with found materials since the 1970s, creating collages from film-stills, pages from books, encyclopedias, catalogues, postcards and autograph cards.

His work is instantly charming, but draws us in only to disturb our initial perceptions. The familiarity of the material and its subject matters gives us tools with which to understand the work, but its arrangement and juxtaposition challenges the very nature of our viewing habits. By playing with the protocols and conventions of visual language, our curiosity and identification is transformed into astonishment, bewilderment and fascination.

JOHN STEZAKER currently teaches Critical and Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art. And good news: you can view his work in person at the Kunstverein Freiburg (Germany) until November 7, 2010. See you there!