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Kolaj #24

Our goal with every issue is that Kolaj Magazine is essential reading for anyone interested in the role of contemporary collage in art, culture, and society. Kolaj #24 is no different. Each issue has articles about collage artists, profiles of collage projects, The Cut-Out Page, Artist Portfolios, and MORE

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Geometric Patterns from the Middle East

A collage by Cairo, Egypt’s Beya Khalifa is on the cover of Kolaj #24 and a portfolio of her work is in the issue. She confronts western notions of "Orientalism" by collaging historic Bedouin photographs with geometric patterns found throughout the Middle East. In other work, Khalifa employs the world beyond Earth’s atmosphere as a character in her stories. MORE

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Make It Weird, Make It Uncomfortable

From Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Sam Eller’s conceptually loaded, digital collage series, “People who very little have lost their minds”, provides an excellent opportunity to explore and enjoy graphic design relieved of its burden to communicate specific information or sell you a product. A portfolio of his work appears in Kolaj #24. MORE

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Photomontage Wins Best in Show at Louisiana Contemporary

In 2012, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans established a juried exhibition to promote the work of contemporary artists of Louisiana. At the 2018 edition, photomontage artist David Knox took Best in Show for a pigment print on aluminum work, The Fall of Leviticus. MORE

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Cut & Post Postcard Project

Edinburgh Collage Collective and collagist Mark Murphy (moif_collage) worked together to make a limited edition set of collage postcards. Throughout the project, they featured a wide range of submitted works on social media and showcased as many postcard collages as possible, demonstrating the diverse visual responses and interpretations. The project joins a list of strategies collage artists are using to curate and disperse collage outside of the gallery exhibition format. MORE

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Viva el Collage in Bolivia

Bolivia is a fascinating and seductive country, still in the process of catching up with the standards of modern society. That's why I enjoy living here so much, because globalization hasn't contaminated completely everything and local traditions are still powerful. In Kolaj #24, Silvia Cuello offers a report on how collage is received in the landlocked Latin American country of Bolivia. MORE

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Museum of Contemporary Collage in Viborg

London-based artist James Springall curated a group exhibition of contemporary collage with Danish-based Sergei Sviatchenko. The exhibition in Viborg, Denmark on view through 31 December 2018 celebrates the city’s 1000-year anniversary. Artists were tasked with including an image of the city in the collage on view. That alone would be noteworthy, but what has us excited is Springall’s plans to use the exhibition, held in old municipal building, as the basis for a permanent museum. MORE

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Big Important Art Book

Danielle Krysa's new art book makes us jealous. A review appears in Kolaj #24. "Books about contemporary art are difficult because of their potential to age quickly or to put too much emphasis on artists whose moment doesn’t last. A Big Important Art Book, Now With Women: Profiles of Unstoppable Female Artists by Danielle Krysa is completely different." This is the fourth title from Kyrsa, the powerhouse behind The Jealous Curator blog. MORE

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Skin in the Game

The current issue of the magazine has a review of Steve Tierney's "Reflected" Series. Working with photographer Tanja Bruckner, he made his own source materials using his body, violating gender norms by holding his body in a way that men aren't supposed to. That performative act not only created material for the series, it informed Tierney's thinking. At an exhibition of the work at Taller Espacio Alternativo in Mexico, the works were printed at 2 x 3 metres and the audience was invited to walk through the pieces, an experience documented in a beautiful video. MORE

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Say Something

In his editorial in Kolaj #24, Ric Kasini Kadour reflects on the historical importance of Kazimir Malevich's The Black Square and how the artist, in presenting this painting, declared that his art would not be a tool for God or country. Kadour writes, "Over the course of a century, art went from a restricted, governed thing to…anything goes...Something got lost along the way." MORE

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Muted Mythological Characters

FonSomething got into collage a few years ago when his girlfriend sent him one in the mail. He sent one back. He was into drawing at the time, but it wasn't satisfying his creative need. "Collaging showed me new ways of being creative. I started to collect magazines and never stopped since. Collages give me the creative satisfaction that I look for," he said. In Kolaj #24, we profile this artist whose magnet packs are an art product spreading collage in the world. MORE

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Anarcho-Capitalism In Fragments

Julia Arredondo is a force. Her practice is a stream of anarcho-capitalism mixed with poetry, ‘zine making, Latin American folk healing, conceptual commercialism, punk, botanica, and Avon sales. For Kolaj 24, we interviewed Arredondo about her Self-Assemble Collage Packs which she described as "packages of ephemeral loose ends that can either be activated as activity packs or as stand-alone art pieces...Having worked 10+ years in the retail industry, I found that packaging and merchandising practices found their way into my creative practice. I don't work as much within the gallery system as I do with the average consumer." MORE

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The Mistake of Falling in Love

Alison Kurke writes, "Cutting, pasting, composing, using different materials are soothing and attention-absorbing pastimes, and collage is perfectly suited to my lifelong love of and constant search for paper and ephemera of all types." Her Cut Out Page appears in in Kolaj #24. The Cut Out Page is a selection of fragments that one can use to make a collage. The feature shows us how artists selected and organized the fragments. MORE

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The Brain Chemistry of Collage

In Kolaj #24, author, mental health professional, and collage artist Laurie Kanyer considers what is going on in the brain when an artist is making collage. She writes, "When an artist creates a collage, they use areas of the brain and body systems that calm the body and tap into creative problem solving." MORE

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Making Faces

Vancouver artist Marcia Pitch’s four hundred collaged faces on round wooden disks are the subject of an article by Maeve Hanna in Kolaj #24. She writes, "Mouths yawn forth from stomachs and necks; ears become hairy eyes and long tubes create elongated noses; eyes cry tears of gasoline and, on a weathered face, a dissected toy ball creates hoods for the eyes like upside down sunglasses or makeshift mini umbrellas." MORE

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Joy from the Hunt

A big part of the collage work is the hunting and gathering. For Amy Ross, part of the joy of collage comes from the hunt. She puts these fragments to work in delicate compositions. A portfolio of collage by Amy Ross appears in Kolaj #24. "The antennae of butterflies become sprigs of blooming clover. Dragonfly tails shoot out buds. What magical science is at play here?" MORE

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Allows for Emotional Power to Slip Through

A Hungarian illustrator currently living in Moscow, Sari Szanto tell stories using collage and drawing. The images are compelling because they are simultaneously simplistic and sophisticated and the contrast of the two allows for an emotional power to slip through. Szanto's interests lie in collage, found objects, good storytelling, and being a keen writer. A portfolio of her work appears in Kolaj #24. MORE

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Gluttony Meets Memento Mori

For all their absurdity, Lita Poliakova's collages radiate a deep thinking about the human condition in societal context. A portfolio of her work appears in Kolaj #24. She sees contemporary culture as a toxic stream of material and herself as a visual anthropologist at war with mass media. A simple reading of Poliakova’s work is "You are what you eat" and one should avoid the things that will kill you, but a deeper read points to gluttony, the embodied sister sin of greed. 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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