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FROM KOLAJ 28
The Thing About Chaos
The thing about chaos is that it comes in different forms. War, for all its brutality and destruction, is a highly choreographed chaos. A house full of kids may be an exhausting mess, but when run well has a rhythmic, scheduled flow. Cacophonies can be harsh or harmonious. As Carl Jung said, “In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” Consider the nature of chaos when viewing the collage of Rosemary Rae. A portfolio of her work appears in Kolaj #28. MORE
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Melbourne Collage Now
Melbourne Collage Assembly at Off the Kerb in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia. Originally scheduled to take place in March and April, the show was cancelled after the mandatory shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But art finds a way. Now you can visit the gallery's website and take a virtual tour of the gallery to view this show, as well as two others, without having to leave the couch. MORE
COLLAGE BOOKS
Learning To See
An Artist’s View on Contemporary Artists From Artschwager To Zakanitch by Bruce Helander (StarGroup International, 2008). An entertaining and highly informative collection of writings and reviews. In it, Helander, a witty and knowledgeable guide, comments on more than 40 recent museum and gallery exhibitions from six consecutive seasons, in pieces originally commissioned by Art of the Times magazine. MORE
FROM KOLAJ 28
Forms Float in Ethereal Suspension
John Digby is a brilliant collage artist who works with prescient amalgamations of words and images. Born in Britain in 1938, he was shaped by a childhood in the Blitz and adolescence as a London Zoo keeper of birds. A Surrealist poet at heart, Digby, scalpel in one hand pen in the other, takes his audience for a rollicking and often disturbing romp in the theatre of his imagination. In Kolaj #28, Joan Harrison with Emily Walshe profile this fascinating artist. MORE
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Connecting To Tokyo
Odile Lueken at HASIGO in Taito City, Tokyo, Japan through 26 April 2020. In a Japanese temple book, Lueken created a travel journal with tiny collages made out of all sorts of magazines and leaflets she came across during her long days in Tokyo. Since she does not speak or understand Japanese, all was abstract material for her. The collages became new small stories, often with a sense of humour in mind. MORE
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WORLD COLLAGE DAY
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, USA
3rd Annual World Collage Day Celebration with the Arizona Collage Collective
Send them your address via Instagram Direct Message and they will mail you a 5”x7” collage pack filled with random images. On 9 May 2020, post your collage using #arizonacollagecollective and #worldcollageday2020. They will feature as many as possible on their Instagram page. DETAILS & MORE EVENTS
WORLD COLLAGE DAY
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
City, Sea, Chicken, Manor
City, sea, chicken, and manor are model neuter nouns in Czech grammar. They are also associated with traditional postcard motifs. Kosmo Nauty has created a special set of five collage kits for your own first collage postcards! Send Kosmo Nauty an email to receive collage kits. Share your postcards with her! Collages will be published on social media during World Collage Day 2020. DETAILS & MORE PROJECTS
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Note: Orders will ship the week of April 20th, 2020. The World Collage Day Special Edition is not included in a regular Kolaj Magazine subscription.
WORLD COLLAGE DAY
World Collage Day
2020 Special Edition
In honour of World Collage Day, May 9, 2020, Kolaj Magazine is releasing a special edition of the magazine. The Special Edition is full of artist-designed Cut Out Pages that can be used to make collage. The World Collage Day 2020 Special Edition includes the special edition booklet, a World Collage Day 2020 poster and a pack of 6 postcards featuring the collage elements of Emma Anna. One of the postcards is a starter for making one's own collage. MORE
Kolaj Magazine is a quarterly, printed magazine about contemporary collage.
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Kolaj #28
In the print magazine, we look at how collage artists get inspired: how the body decorations of Surma and Mursi Tribes inform Janet Taylor Pickett’s collage; how Koji Nagai uses his first impression of the materials; how Sabine Remy is inspired by an iconic German publisher; how Colleen Cunningham brings pop culture into her work; how Misoo relies on her experience an Asian woman in America; how cover artist Rosemary Rae mines the proverbial junk drawer. READ MORE
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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. The Kolaj Magazine Year Seven Collectors Pack includes Issues 25, 26, 27, and 28. MORE
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Kolaj Magazine is a quarterly, printed, art magazine reviewing and surveying contemporary collage with an international perspective. We are interested in collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century art movement. Kolaj is published in Montreal, Quebec by Maison Kasini. Visit Kolaj Magazine online.
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