Pulling from what look like adverts and comic strips made in the 50s and 60s, back when American family life was unabashed in its depiction as a sterile and rigid consumerist culture, Montreal-based artist and illustrator Pierre-Paul Pariseau transports old fashioned characters into a radiant dream worlds that play with your perceptions of depth, scale, and time.Through a cache of Pop art imagery, as cut and sewed via surrealist techniques, his works are loud almost frightening juxtapositions. Looking over the whimsical and vibrant collages, something about them is downright unsettling.
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A moose the size of a skyscraper strolls through a greened out urban center; a perched black bird with the tongue of a frog tries to catch a butterfly using an oversized tongue. According to his artist statement, Pariseau finds inspiration in, “happy coincidences” and “anecdotal events,” those serendipitous moments in life that challenge your nihilistic understanding of reality and fate. This should become clear in the work below:
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