wassily blossfeldt

vassily blossfeldt was born in 1989 in the german town of wuppertal-elberfeld of russo-germanic parents and moved to london when he was 12, where he lives and studies. he is a photographer, digital artist, collagist and sound-sculptor. he spends his time between the royal college of arts and his flats smoking hashish and manipulating computers, programs, scissors, glue, paper, glass, branches and leaves he finds on the streets and out of them makes his ‘experiences’ that he shares in school and to friends. he is collaborating with the catalogue of wonders to produce ‘fables against gravity’, our first audio release. he binds books from scratch, it is his favourite past-time, which involves the making of notebooks, books, illustration books and books that do not have any possible description because they vassily books of art. he likes the freedom digital manipulation of images and sounds provide to create abstract and very often images of sex imaginary that at first sight are not visible.

"whether fact, belief, gossip or opinion, all information in the media has become interchangeable and based on disposibility, form instead of content, quantity instead of quality."

vassily thinks the world is here to be taken, dada way, by not talking only, but in reality act. his first exhibition in college was received with disdain, cries of ‘pornographer’ or indecent, bad taste, heretic, real-artist-in-the-making and you can find him usually taking long walks by the river thames where he thinks of his projects, writes then down on his handmade books and takes photographs that he archives. one day they will be transformed into works of art, one day, he sighs. he smokes a lot, he laughs even more and likes to go to gym to show his athletic body (the best boys go there, he confesses, it is very erotic, watch but don’t touch.) you can find some of his best work in telephone boots, the underground, in posts on the street, buses, windows of people he doesn’t know, in the pillars of the british library, on the toilets of tate modern and tate britain, on the toilets of fabric club and outside on the walls for the pointers waiting admire and comment. he doesn’t read a lot, but used to. he liked ‘house of leaves’ by mark z. danielewsky and ‘the kindly ones’ by jonathan littell. he himself doesn’t like to be photographed. but he likes to photograph his friends. one day he wants to be friends with famous people and write a best-seller autobiography. for now he does his collages and digital paintings, gets drunk, skinny dips on the thames, dances, smokes, goes after men of his age and keeps filling his books with simple and beautiful and outrageous works. more to come, promise...

3 of wassily blossfeldt record sleeves for the catalogue of wonders (c) 2011

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