ARTIST PROFILE

linda toigo

  • Italy (b. 1979 in Trieste)
  • Currently in London, United Kingdom.
  • I am a book artist, paper engineer and graphic designer. With my alteration I celebrate the physical qualities of books and the symbolic value found within their pages.
Bluebeard's wives

Bluebeard's wives

  • 2014
  • Found Objects
  • found fashion magazine, cardboard, thread

  • A crowded gathering of women’s faces found in the pages of a Harper’s Bazaar magazine, mounted on baby pink cardboard and hanged on the upper edge of the magazine.The title refers to the children’s classic fairy tale Bluebeard.

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    Vanity Fear (altered magazines) | 2014

A series of unsettling portraits cut out from glossy fashion magazines. The pages of found magazines have been carved to single out particular elements, that through their accumulation on the cover would create a disturbing new image: smiling lips, bright eyes and translucent legs, extracted from their original context and exposed as a multitude are no longer elements of beauty but become part of disfigured creatures.