Olivier de Sagazan is a painter, sculptor and performance artist, and in common with the photographs of Joel Peter Witkin, de Sagazan's work is preoccupied with bodily transformation, deformation and the dubious pleasures of horror. His performance piece, Transfiguration, which is featured below, is like seeing one of Francis Bacon's screaming popes come to terrible life, or sharing one of Tim Robbin's visions from Adrian Lyne's 1990 film, Jacob's Ladder. I urge you to watch de Sagazan's film - in essence, it's an artist covering himself in clay and paint; just keep telling yourself that. It's one of the creepiest things I've seen in a long time...
Transfiguration
This is so..Francis Bacon-like! Love it :)
ReplyDeleteReally really amazing stuff...it's like the love child of Francis Bacon and The Quay Brothers :)
ReplyDeleteThese are really power images they remind me of tortued and the insaine and would of been perfect for my uncanny project.
ReplyDeleteThese are all amazingly unsettling! I feel like I'm watching something horrible in slow motion even though they're perfectly still. Brilliant! :D
ReplyDeleteThe second image up from the bottom looks just like the Pale Man from Pan's Laberinth. I wonder if this guy was a direct influence on Guilermo del Toro.
ReplyDeletevery strong
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