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 - Vegas - Movie Stills - Commercial Work - 2000 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995 - 1994 - 1993 - 1992 - 1991 - 1990 - 1989 - Flyers: - Enigma - Single Event - | |||
|  WELCOME TO the Anthony Bondi Art Pages.
You may view my COLLAGE ART by clicking on a year or subject as listed above. Then you may click on the thumbnails to the left for a bigger view of a specific piece. You may view my BURNING MAN FESTIVAL ART, PRODUCTIONS or DRAWINGS by clicking on the links above. NOTES ON COLLAGE It’s odd to think of collage as having been invented by Picasso. It’s as if we could cite by name the first person who painted a picture. It seems like a long stretch to call Picasso the father of the mash-up. Collage is an act of intrusion, the pre-existing meaning of single images being shifted by a change of context. It involves memory, in that the shifting of the meaning of an image also leads us to consider the previous meaning of the image. It’s as if there are ghosts present in a collage. Collage occurs at the intersection of the collaged elements, in the transition from element to element. It’s an art of movement, of a shifting eye finding narrative as the eye moves and stops and moves on, over the collage. There is a contradiction in it, still image set next to still image made into a new single still image that contains within it a now past moment of animation, when the single still images were being joined together. Collage makes a farce of the concept of object-as-object. There is no image or thing so self-contained that play around its edges cannot change its essential identity. An image or object has no essential meaning separate from the context in which it is set, which is always subject to change. VEGAS AND COLLAGE We are accustomed to the heart of a place being a tangible thing such as a building or a public square. I am suggesting with my pictures that the architectural heart of Vegas is in the intersections between its signature elements, in the steps between its enveloping environments. When we find a narrative in these points of transition, as we do, we stand in the multiple centers of Vegas, where its unique identity is most clear. It is a circumstance analogous with collage, which is defined by the intersections between its elements rather than by any single element within the collage. This description of Vegas’ current built environment offers a hint about what form our vernacular architecture might take, which we have yet to see. There is a hint here of a personality type that might be characteristic of Vegas, another figure still in development. I’d like to see towering columns of steam, sculpted by air jets and fans, as the signature attraction of a yet-to-be-built Strip resort. NOTES ON FLYERS The days now past of lots of cheap handmade flyers being produced late-nights at Kinkos, were lots of fun. Sometimes on a Wednesday or Thursday or even Friday evening, a half dozen people would be cutting and pasting their show fliers at the same time. If we stopped to think about it, we’d know that in Kinkos all across the country, lots of people at the same time were doing the same thing. ENIGMA FLYERS Julie Brewer's Enigma Garden Café was the focal point of the downtown Vegas art district for about five years. It was a garden, coffee shop, art gallery, and performance space. In 2005, across the street from the now vacant lot where Enigma once stood, the “Soho Lofts” condominium tower is under construction. Mike Fuller of Moving Sun Productions made the first two monthly Enigma flyers. The images were the cellophane wrapper; the meat of the flyers was the monthly schedule of events on the back of the flyer. I don’t remember how I picked up the flyer project from Mike, but I kept with it for a few years, until the Enigma online list was developed to serve the purpose. The Enigma fliers were produced between 1994 and 1996. On the front was perhaps a snappy picture; at least a different image from month to month, and on the back was the monthly schedule of events. | ||
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