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2014-12-11

MZIN NEWS: PAUL ELLIMAN — UNTITLED / SEPTEMBER MAGAZINE (ROMA PUBLISHERS)

In a glossy volume approaching 500 pages, British artist and designer Paul Elliman has collected images from a variety of sources: fashion magazines, glamour photography and pornography cropping and arranging the clippings in a manner that especially emphasises the presence of hands, along with the many gestures of which they are capable. Also prevalent in the spectrum of clothed, semi-nude and nude human forms are limbs, feet, torsos and erogenous zones. Without any text or explanation, the series takes on a mesmerising aspect wherein the action of flipping through the pages becomes a kind of meditative contemplation of the fragmented human body.

euro 42.30