Description
Magdalena Wysocka [b.1987, Poland] and Claudio Pogo [b.1978, Germany] are a Berlin based artist duo who have been working together since 2016. With backgrounds in printmaking and photography, their work bridges a variety of related mediums, from large-scale printed canvas works to handmade photobooks. Their practice is centred around collecting and re-contextualising found imagery.
Material is sourced from vintage photographs, books and other archives, stripped of its original context and transformed to create new visual narratives. Wysocka / Pogo utilise Risography, a Japanese stencil printing technique from the 1960’s, to express this reinterpretation. They purposefully push the risograph’s boundaries heightening the elements of chance and unpredictability in the finished pieces. Their canvases become a beautiful and uniquely tangible reflection on the passage of time and context, as well as machine-made replication vs. hand-made interpretation… READ MORE
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In Search of Birds
The series In Search of Birds draws inspiration from vintage botanical books and 1970s Japanese film and pop-culture magazines collected in Tokyo’s renowned Jimbocho district. Cropped and enlarged fragments cut through sparse Japanese text, disrupting the original context and inviting new interpretations. In their unique, distressed style, the artists reveal the hidden and often overlooked beauty entombed in these pages.
