SURREALITY CHECK. The new exhibition of the master of collage, Sammy Slabbinck

Steffi Fink , DNA, December 13, 2017

The artist Sammy Slabbinck is world-renowned for his collage techniques , with which he creates surreal pieces taken from clippings of old photographs and magazines. And now he presents his most recent exhibition, Surreality Check , at the Michael Hoppen gallery in London.


An avid collector of old magazines, with which he appropriates images and decontextualizes them, creating a parallel world inspired by the absurdity of pop culture. His collages have a psychedelic surrealist narrative that have managed to be published in newspapers such as The New Yorker and Der Spiegel, and has made covers like that of You Want it Darker by Leonard Cohen.