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COLLAGE ON VIEW
400 Years of Collage
Cut and Paste at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, Scotland through 27 October 2019. Collage is often described as a twentieth-century invention, but this show spans a period of more than 400 years and includes more than 250 works. A huge range of styles, techniques and approaches is on show, from sixteenth-century anatomical “flap prints”, to computer-based images; work by amateur, professional and unknown artists; and much more. MORE
COLLAGE ON VIEW
A Natural History of Collage
Catie O’Leary at the Fresno Art Museum in Fresno, California, USA through 5 January 2020. The images in O’Leary’s collages are original engraved illustrations from antique books. The books are her inspiration as well as her material. The meticulously cut-out pieces become puzzle pieces in her selection process creating a continuous thread throughout the years of an invented nature. The unexpected juxtapositions become poetic landscapes combining elements of nature and man. MORE
FROM KOLAJ 26
Thieves in the Temple
In the current print edition, Dillon Raborn dives into the story of Robyn Redish and the Stolen Painting Instagram. He writes, "Redish’s feeling of infringed autonomy will be familiar to anyone who has ever staked part of their livelihood on producing art...There is, however, a very real point of contention which wraps her situation into an ethical dead-end upon closer scrutiny: Redish is a collagist. Her medium’s appropriative practice predicates the upheaval of copyright doctrine. MORE
FROM KOLAJ 26
Mapping Back
Encaustic’s characteristic semi-transparency may be ideal for use in collage, as it allows underlying layers of paper to remain visible while permitting the medium its own signifying potential," writes Jane Affleck in Kolaj 26. "Halifax, Nova Scotia-based artist, curator and gallery director Peter Dykhuis has been in on this secret for years." MORE
CALL TO ARTISTS
Corporeal Gestures
Deadline: 6 January 2020. Fragmentary explorations in the cultivation of the human body. Clive Knights maintains that human actions are pre-figured by the horizons opened up by the capacities of the human body. In 2010, Knights initiated a long-term project titled “Re-membering the Daughters of Mnemosyne” that re-identified the nine muses as the cultivation of the orderliness of the human body. The collage component of this project is proposed as an opportunity for participation by collage artists across the world through a combination of both "open call" and invited contribution to address one or more of the nine “daughters/ muses” through collage. MORE
Kolaj Magazine is a quarterly, printed magazine about contemporary collage.
CURRENT ISSUE
Kolaj #26
Our goal with every issue is that Kolaj Magazineis essential reading for anyone interested in the role of contemporary collage in art, culture, and society. In Kolaj #26, we go deep into critical areas: copyright, political art, materiality, and concepts that explain the centrality of collage in the history of art. Each issue has articles about collage artists, profiles of collage projects, The Cut-Out Page, Artist Portfolios, and more. MORE
EXHIBITION CATALOG
Revolutionary Paths
When the collage is presented in exhibition, it is often done so without the critical framework granted other mediums. In "Revolutionary Paths: Critical Issues in Collage", exhibition curator Ric Kasini Kadour presents examples of collage that represent various aspects and takes on the medium. Each work in the exhibition represents the potential for deeper inquiry and further curatorial exploration of the medium. MORE
EXHIBITION CATALOG
Cultural Decontructions
Collage is unique as a medium in that it uses as its material artifacts from the world itself. To harvest those fragments, the artist must first deconstruct culture; they must select, cut, and remove the elements they do not wish to use and then reconstruct work that tells a new story. In "Cultural Deconstructions: Critical Issues in Collage", exhibition curator Ric Kasini Kadour presents examples of collage artists who are deconstructing identity as a way to critique culture. 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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