Original, 1970 Wilfred Satty Collage Film

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Original, 1970 Wilfred Satty Collage FilmThis is one of several works by Wilfred Sattybeing offered at this time.Please see my other listings.This is a piece of film used by San Francisco artist Wilfred Satty (1939 - 1982) (Umlaut over the "a" to be correct.)Wilfred Satty created art using paper and mixed media collage and photocopying the end result to create an open edition of reproductions, book illustrations and posters based on his original collage work. This piece of film is an example of one step in that technique. I'm not sure if this image was ever finished and published.This film measures 8 1/8" X 7 7/8.""Drawings from his enormous collection of 19th-century illustrations, and using his knowledge of overprinting, collage, overlays, paints and offset lithography, Satty superimposed and juxtaposed images to create layered compositions of such wildness, density and subtle detail that they speak more tellingly than any static visual records of the time could do. His transformations of the original materials range from the discreet addition of a few whimsical oddities in the foreground of an etching, to the full-out hallucinations of an opium den or a ballroom swirling with romantic delirium. And the fact that these are all 19th-century images, radically revised by a 20th-century eye, gives one the eerie sense of shifting back and forth in time, space and perception. There's a startling sardonic humor in Satty's visionary history, but there is love as well for the reckless, plunging voracity of those early days. Satty's life was easily as turbulent as anything he portrayed in art."Coming from the "big surrealistic playground" of war-torn Bremen, Germany, he settled in San Francisco in the early 60's, at the very beginning of the psychedelic age, and became one of the best known poster artists of the time. Gathering around him a weird and wonderful array of found objects, he created a subterranean dwelling on Powell Street near North beach that the late Thomas Albright described as "a cross between Miss Havisham's parlor in "Great Expectations" and something out of Luna Park. His large parties, mingling socialites and hippies in a happy confusion as raucous as any of the bar room tangles he collage , were legendary events. Obsessed with extending the mass-media possibilities of lithography to create his own provocative revisions of reality. Satty created an enormous "image bank" from which he snipped and intricately pieced together his collages. His end was as abrupt and tragic as that of many earlier California dreamers: Satty died in 1982 from "a fall from a ladder while inebriated," according to the San Francisco's coroner's office. He was 42 years old, burnt out by the very intensity and imperious innocence that illuminated his art." (Excerpt from Kate Regan, August, 1984 Review)Note to all bidders: You can combine your purchases into a single shipment to save shipping costs.Your satisfaction is guaranteed. If you are not satisfied with your purchase you may return the item for a complete refund. Item must be returned by U.S. Priority Mail in same container and in same condition as shipped. All shipping and handling expenses on returned items are the buyer's responsibility.Please Note: I use Unpaid Item Assistant which will send a notice to successful bidders eight days after their purchase if the purchase is still unpaid. If you are a successful bidder on multiple listings over a period of time, I am happy to hold your purchases and ship them all together at the best possible rate. To avoid the unpaid item notice from eBay, please pay-as-you-go for your purchases. Please contact me by email if you have questions. read more

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