Fabian Oefner Gallery / Sara Urbaez / March 6, 2018 2:11 PM
Fabian Oefner01*Explosion Collage No. 01* features a 1954 portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Albert Eisenstaedt.
Fabian Oefner02*Explosion Collage No. 04* was made using a 1956 photograph of Anita Ekberg by Yousuf Karsh.
Fabian Oefner03This image, *Explosion Collage No. 06*, utilizes a 1923 photograph of Franz Kafka by an unknown photographer.
Fabian Oefner04A 1979 portrait of Andy Warhol by Yousuf Karsh was used for *Explosion Collage No. 02*.
Fabian Oefner05*Explosion Collage No. 05* features a portrait of Herbert von Karajan, photographed by Siegfried Lauterwasser around 1970.
Fabian Oefner06This 1933 self-portrait by Constantin Brancusi was used for *Explosion Collage No. 03*.
Fabian Oefner07The process begins with a preliminary sketch.
Fabian Oefner08Oefner tears each portraits into up to 2,000 fragments.
Fabian Oefner09He rearranges the fragments to form a new image.
Fabian Oefner10Oefner shoots the larger fragments against a black backdrop, propping them up with the help of a soldering clamp.
