Collages

In the early 1970s, Louis Fulgoni produced a series of surrealistic collages with images celebrating sexual revolution, homoeroticism and gay liberation, and satirizing corporate power. The collages – which juxtapose photo fragments from magazines ranging from Architectural Digest to gay pornography – are among Louis’s most pointedly subversive works.

Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period, some featuring images of Salvador Dalí.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic collages that Louis created during this period, some featuring images of Salvador Dalí.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period, this collage predates the AIDS crisis by at least several years but seems prescient.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic collages that Louis created during this period, the image asserts his status as a “fallen away” Catholic.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings in boxed diorama, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period, including three-dimensional constructions like this one.
Untitled, magazine clippings in boxed diorama, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period, including three-dimensional constructions like this one.
Untitled, magazine clippings in boxed diorama, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period, including three-dimensional constructions like this one.
Untitled, magazine clippings in boxed diorama, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period, including three-dimensional constructions like this one.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings in boxed diorama, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period, including three-dimensional constructions like this one.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period, which coincided with the lunar landings of the Apollo program.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period, including pieces like this one satirizing corporate America.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period, including pieces like this one satirizing corporate America.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period, including pieces like this one satirizing corporate America.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period, including like this one sending up the advertising industry.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period, including like this one sending up the advertising industry.
Untitled, magazine clippings on board, early 1970s. • One of the series of surrealistic and erotic collages that Louis created during this period.