- Venue
- Matisonn Burgin: Shoreditch Space
- Starts
- Friday, November 28, 2008
- Ends
- Monday, December 8, 2008
- Address
- 1st Floor 30 Phipp Street London EC2A 4NR
- Location
- London
Jean Christensen, a New York artist now living in France, creates subtle, intricate and subversive collages using the waste and trash of a dying era. He re-imagines the world confronting globalised markets and marketeers with a re-invention, a transformation of their own images of manipulation. This exquisite work is highly iconoclastic, but also highly technical, using supermarket fliers, junk-mail and other detritus in a surreptitious and under-the-radar, yet deliberate and surprising way. Taking 1st Place in the public vote at the 12th Salon International du Collage 2005 in Paris, Jean Christensen’s images bewilder and excite: