Showing posts with label exquisite corpse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exquisite corpse. Show all posts

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Exquisite Garden


Helena Scheffer is hosting an exhibit at her art gallery (http://www.galerieouest.ca/)  of the Exquisite Corpse, or corps exquis.   Done way back in the '20s this was a game that the Dada-ists played, I'm sure while sitting in smokey cafés and drinking absinthe.  They folded a piece of paper in 3 or 4 and one would draw the head, fold it so it couldn't be seen, and then the next would draw the torso, the third the legs.  Any resemblance to a real human seemed to be accidental!
Below is the corpse made by myself, Rosie, and Hilary (the old TriThis gang).  Our only discussion involved using the colour green and a placement of the neck and legs.  


Rosie's head

My torso
An exhibit of Jean Paul Gaultier was in Montreal and I was very influenced by that.

Hilary's legs