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KOLAJ #28
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In the issue, 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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COLLAGE PROJECT
Unequal Twins
In the current issue of the print magazine, we profile Sabine Remy’s collaborative artist book project, Die ungleichen Zwillinge. The Düsseldorf-based artist collaborates with an international array of collagists to make artist books using the iconic titles of the Insel-Bücherei series. MORE
ARTIST PORTFOLIO
Reclaiming Black Beauty
"Collage is also part of my visual vocabulary," writes Pasadena, California artist Janet Taylor Pickett. The collages in her 'Exotica Botanica' series seek to reclaim images of Black beauty from a colonial or imperial gaze that trivializes, infantilizes, and exoticizes African experience and culture. A portfolio of Pickett's work appears in Kolaj 28. MORE
ART FAIRS
Report from the Banana Factory
Once a year, galleries from around the world flock to South Florida in December for Art Week Miami. With Maurizio Cattelan's banana and duct tape art piece, The Comedian, getting all the attention, but we asked Dafna Steinberg to provide a report on collage at Art Miami. Her full report in Kolaj 28 focuses on the collage work of Liam Alexander, Larry Amponsah, Katrien De Blauwer, and Simon Vargas Acosta. MORE
COLLAGE BOOKS
Lonely Voyagers
Simon Blake is well-known for his collage work in film, graphics and animation. His work has garnered two Association of Independent Commercial Producers awards and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. In late 2019, New Orleans’ Luna Press released Lonely Voyagers, a book of collages by Simon Blake with text by Dalt Wonk. Blake’s collages use images taken from La Nature, a 19th century French magazine. MORE
NEWS & NOTES
Year of Collage in Slovenia
Collage artists are invited to join KAOS for a 2020 artist residency. They write, “When there is no KAOS in Kranj, the sky over the Alps has only two colours--blue and grey. But collage paints the town into all the colours of the world (and maybe also of some new world) and changes it forever.” This is why they are inviting collage artists to become part of a venture to transform Kranj into a city of collage. This item originally appeared as a News and Notes item in Kolaj 28. MORE
ARTIST PORTFOLIO
In Dialogue with Art History
Koji Nagai’s collage is in dialogue with art history. Botanique 17 pairs Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait with a fragment from a Roy Lichtenstein print. The artist writes, “I generate ideas for collages based on my first impression of the materials." A portfolio of Nagai's work appears in Kolaj #28. MORE
COLLAGE IDEAS
Excavations, Projections & Depth
A conversation between artists Clive Knights and Andrea Burgay that evolved from a discussion planned for Kolaj Fest New Orleans introduces the atypical collage practices of both artists. Their dialogue focuses on the use of physical methods of excavation as a metaphor for ideas that drive their work. MORE
ARTIST PORTFOLIO
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
ARTIST PORTFOLIO
Giant Asian Girls
Vermont artist Misoo's "The Giant Asian Girls" is an acrylic painting and collage series that contemplates the unique intersection of gender-based violence and racial stereotypes for Asian women living in the United States. In one aspect, the work is a counterbalance to the western “fetishization” of Asian women, and in another, it is a fantasy narrative about the privilege of size. A portfolio of her work appears in Kolaj 28. MORE
ARTIST PROFILE
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 IDEA
Collection Is Cohesion
In his fourth article in the series on uncollage, Todd Bartel takes a look at Bo Joseph’s work and why it inspired the coining of this new collage term. He writes, "In the spring of 1999, I visited Bo Joseph’s Brooklyn studio for the first time...It was during this visit that I uttered the word 'uncollage' for the first time. MORE
GOING BIG
Collage in the Sculpture Park
Can a sculpture park show collage? The DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum did. In the seventy years since it opened, the museum has become one of the preeminent sculpture parks in the U.S. with over sixty works situated across thirty lush acres of woodlands and lawns. DeCordova maintains its commitment to contemporary, site-specific installations through a robust curatorial program. In 2019, they exhibited a monumental collage outdoors by New York-based artist Wardell Milan. MORE
COLLAGE IDEA
Emotionality of Branding
Since 2013, MBLM’s research arm has published a Brand Intimacy Study. And for the past two years, they have been using collage to illustrate their ideas. If you ever doubt the power of collage to communicate complex, emotionally intelligent ideas in a dynamic way, remember this story of how collage is being used in the research-driven marketing world. MORE
GOING BIG
Out of Time
A broken clock at the park keeper’s house of Langley Park in Sandwell, England inspired Mark Murphy’s series of collages about the social and industrial history of the area. Using history archives, Murphy made nine large paste-ups that he placed in and around the park...and then he went even bigger. His article appears in Kolaj #28 and is part of a series that explores how collage artists are "Going Big". MORE
Each issue of Kolaj Magazine is dedicated to 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.
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WORLD COLLAGE DAY
World Collage Day
2020 Special Edition
In honour of World Collage Day, May 9, 2020, Kolaj Magazine released a special edition of the magazine. The World Collage Day 2020 Special Edition features cut out pages by seventeen collage artists from Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as a profile of and two cut-out pages by the World Collage Day 2020 poster artist, Australian-Colombian collagist Emma Anna. MORE
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