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CURRENT ISSUE
KOLAJ #19
Selections from Olivia Descampe’s “Botanical Catwalk” series grace the front and back cover of Kolaj #19 . Descampe’s collages are minimal, containing only a few fragments, but they manage to forge powerful images and narratives using the simplest juxtapositions. A portfolio of Descampe’s collage appears in the issue.
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INSIDE KOLAJ #19
ARTICLE
Framing the Debris
Kevin Sampsell offers a profile of Luke Dolkas in the current issue of Kolaj Magazine, in which he explains how "the revelation of doing collage art came in the form of a camel." The profile traces the artist’s journey and explores his love of old paper and how he "can make a collage out of twenty pieces of white paper." MORE
EDITORIAL
Get Together
In his Kolaj #19 editorial, Ric Kasini Kadour rails against the myth of the lonely artist. He writes, "Too often we talk about art as the product of independent genius. The artist, as mythical figure, toils alone in their studio to weave a golden thread of creativity into a magnificent oeuvre. In only the rarest, most tragic instances is this true. Most artists, and in particular most great artists, surround themselves with smart, intuitive, thoughtful people with whom they engage on a regular basis. Good art is inherently social and the production of art is a community-based activity." MORE
ARTICLE
Grassroots Discourse
Etty Yaniv writes in Kolaj #19, "The rules of the Brooklyn Collage Collective are pretty hardcore. To start with, member initiation involves putting together a collage using a hundred clippings in three minutes, while hanging upside down blindfolded." Her cheeky beginning quickly gets into a serious look at the Brooklyn Collage Collective. Shown here is a collage by member Kieran Madden. MORE
FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE
Imaginary Portraits
In the spring of 2008, two friends from Val-de-Marne, France started to plaster Parisian suburbs with life-size figures cut out of 1920’s photographs. For the past five years, street artists Leo & Pipo have been inviting collage artists to make imaginary portraits of the pair. Artists are asked to create a collage using an old photograph that features two characters. A profile of this dynamic duo appears in Kolaj #19. MORE
ARTICLE
Glueheads
Anelor Robin’s wandering contemporary collage project hits the road. GlueHeads started in Berlin in 2015. In May 2017, she takes GlueHeads to Tétouan in Morocco, where she will be in residence at the French Cultural Institute. Additional events are in the works for Teheran and Belgrade. A profile of the project appears in Kolaj #19. MORE
NEWS & NOTES
Mini-Exhibitions in Berlin
Throughout this year, if you find yourself in Berlin on the first of the month, stop in to see Kim Engelen, who is hosting a mini-exhibition at her apartment gallery, Gallery 1 Flat Wall. MORE
COLLAGE TAXONOMY
Scanography
The Collage Taxonomy Project is an ongoing survey of the wider collage community that attempts to define the language we use to talk about collage. In Kolaj #19, Ric Kasini Kadour explores scanography as a technology for an immersive collage experience. The concept comes to us from Maureen Williams, an artist and gallerist in Yreka, California, who has included scanography in her practice for many years now. MORE
NEWS AND NOTES
Give & Receive
Artists each make thirteen collages no bigger than an A4 sheet of paper and ship them to Taranaki, New Zealand before 20 August 2017. One of the collages will be exhibited and for sale at the Percy Thomson Gallery in Stratford, New Zealand (and online). Another collage is included in a month long exhibition in September and then donated to an art institution. For nearly two decades, Dale Copeland has been the force behind an International Collage Exchange. We wrote about her efforts in Kolaj #19. MORE
ARTICLE
Small Is Beautiful
Three kilometers south of the village of Berkåk, Norway, population 930, on European route E6, the main north-south road through Norway, in between the bend in the road and the bridge over the creek, on the right side (if you’re heading north), there, you will find the Scandinavian Collage Museum. In Kolaj #19, we published a profile of the Museum and its founder Miss.Printed. MORE
COLLAGE ON THE COVER
Botanical Catwalk
Selections from Olivia Descampe's “Botanical Catwalk” series grace the front and back of Kolaj #19. In the series, Descampe relies solely on vintage fashion photography and botanical illustrations. With powerful source material, the collage in this series allow newness to manifest in the pairings. The empty white background amplifies the bold colours. A portfolio of Decampe's collage appears in the issue. MORE
ARTICLE
More Than the
Godfather of Pop
In Kolaj #19, Ric Kasini Kadour writes how the Eduardo Paolozzi Retrospective at Whitechapel Gallery highlights the artist's reputation as an apex figure of Modernist art, one of particular importance to collage. MORE
ARTIST PORTFOLIO
Embedded Fragments
Dissection and reading fragments, looking at how they play with each other, is integral to the experience of collage. What makes Julia Chernysheva’s work compelling is that she embeds some of the fragments in the original photograph and cuts and pastes others onto the image after the photograph is taken. A portfolio of Moscow-based Julia Chernysheva’s work appears in Kolaj #19. MORE
NEWS & NOTES
Interactive Video-Collage
The Nyco Project is doing something with music, collage, and video that is pretty fresh. The London-based group describes themselves as “independent artists weaving grit-pop, alt-torch, blues rock and psychedelia into interactive video-collages.” Sound collage is nothing new. Pop musicians using collage as visuals for the albums isn’t either. But The Nyco Project takes things to a whole new level by experimenting with their recording process and integrating sound and visual components. MORE
ARTIST PORTFOLIO
Resolving Previously Contradictory Conditions
A portfolio of Belgium-artist Jacques Marchal aka Marjac's work appears in KOLAJ #19. In the world of Surrealist art, two types emerge. There are those artists who use Surrealism to explain away the various non sequiturs, eccentricities, and caprices that arise in their work and there are those artists who employ a set of studied techniques to, in the words of André Breton, “resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality.” Marchal is the latter. MORE
ARTIST PORTFOLIO
Scissors and Real Paper
Bob Bunck writes, "Annette Visser works with her fingers and scissors in a very free way. Her apparently subtle interventions can change an image completely. She is not looking for perfection, but is ripping and cutting, placing the elements right there where they should be." A portfolio of Visser’s work appears in KOLAJ #19. MORE
ARTICLE
Performance Landscape
Rhonda Wall thinks of her collage art as Neo Collage from the 21st century. Formally, her work has an affinity with diverse aesthetics. Thematically, her collages reveal underlying feminist and political narratives, blending imagery from magazines, old scientific manuals, internet sources and painting. Altogether these fragments form a cohesive and idiosyncratic visual syntax, which is familiar and hard to place at the same time. In Kolaj #19, Etty Yaniv profiles this fascinating artist. MORE
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Kolaj Magazine is a quarterly, printed magazine about contemporary collage. We are interested in how collage is made, how collage is exhibited, and how collage is collected. We are interested in the role collage plays in contemporary visual culture. Kolaj is a full colour, internationally-oriented art magazine. Kolaj is published in Montreal, Quebec by Maison Kasini. Visit Kolaj Magazine online.
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