Anyone remember that collaborative writing exercise from little school, where you had to write a bit of a story and then fold the paper so the next writer could only see the last sentence? I’m not making it up, am I? It was a thing. Known in the art world as cadavre exquis, or exquisite corpse, the two-way creative outlet was mustered up by the Surrealists in the early part of the 20th Century.
Dutch illustrator Antigoon has been running his own little version online for some time, inviting his artistic friends to join in on a never-ending collaborative illustration that really is something to behold. Antigoon’s Exquisite Corpse is now a physical experiment, completed by pairs who followed a similar process – one artist did the top half of a piece, then hid all but a wafer-thin slice before passing it on to a partner to complete. As one might expect, surreality ensued, with people morphing into objects and visual non-sequiturs all over the place.
Antigoon chose 10 colleagues to work together, including Hedof, Nick Liefhebber and Joren Joshua, and the completed works are now on display at Amsterdam gallery Walls. Check out the weirdness before 24 August.
Nick Liefhebber vs Olivier Vrancken
Aron Vellekoop Leon vs Hedof
Joren Joshua vs Ilse Weisfelt
Lennard Kok vs Gino Bud Hoiting
