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FROM KOLAJ 29
The Three Miracles of Bob Bunck
Over the past five decades, Amsterdam-born and based artist Bob Bunck has produced a remarkable and varied body of work that trips across various mediums. He operates with "the free mind of the artist" unattached to medium, technique, or material. He once created a large-scale installation of a star in a circle with only carrots and cabbage heads. In Kolaj 29, we profile the artist. MORE
FROM KOLAJ 29
Novelty to Necessity
"Prior to 1914, collage was a novelty; by 1918, it was a necessity," writes Billy Renkl in Kolaj 29. He reviews Max Ernst's earliest work as it was on view at Kasmin Gallery in New York. He notes, "The exhibition provided an astonishing opportunity to see the range of Ernst’s originality, with collages from 1920 to 1975: a five-decade survey in forty-five works by one of the most inventive minds of the 20th century." MORE
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Slumber with a Key
at Jack Fischer Gallery-Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco, California, USA through 29 August 2020. The artists in "Slumber with a Key" exploit the unpredictable outcomes of chance and collaboration in an effort to subvert the "rational" world. For the show, each participating artist contributed a dream to be dropped into a hat and redistributed to another artist. Seven artists from the Jack Fischer Gallery each invited an artist from outside the gallery roster to participate, fostering a chain reaction. The resulting show presents each artist’s interpretation of another artist’s dream in a range of media including collage, painting and sculpture. MORE
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Radical Reimaginings
Exhibition Virtual Opening & Book Launch
Saturday, August 22, 2020 | 8PM-EST / 5PM-PST
516 ARTS, in partnership with Kolaj Institute, invited selected artists from New Mexico and around the world to reflect on our shifting world using collage, a medium that has been historically used by artists to directly engage with the visual narratives of their time. The exhibition and book features forty artists from nine countries and multiple Indigenous peoples—Salish-Kootenai/Métis-Cree/Sho-Ban, Tlingit/Nisga’a, Oglala/Lakota, and Seneca Nation—who offer a variety of perspectives. The voices of Black, Latinx, Native, and white Americans mingle with those from Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Canada, France, and Germany. MORE INFO & REGISTER
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Embroidery Sampler 2
by Haley Sanborn
While attending college in Baltimore, fiber artist and sculptor Haley Sanborn became involved in local activism and became interested in how art can be used as a tool to organize people inside and outside of the art world. MORE
Fundraising Exhibition in Support of Kolaj Institute
As part of Kolaj LIVE Online, Kolaj Institute is hosting a Fundraising Exhibition to support the organization's residencies, publications, fellowships, and traveling programs. The artwork on sale benefits both the artist and the organization. EXHIBITION WEBSITE
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Abracadabra
by Michael Pajón
Michael Pajón's dense compositions with meticulously hand-cut materials are sourced from heavily illustrated antique books and ephemera. By breaking up context and repurposing materials into fables, portraits, Homeric landscapes, and allegorical tales filled with romance and ennui, he creates something beautiful out of the imperfect and antiquated, establishing a contemporary dialogue with the reader. MORE
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Collage Castell
Artist communities, networks, partners are as integral to the creation of art as the materials we use. While we may work alone, the diffusion of art, the presentation of art to the community, is a complex collaboration with gallerists, art writers, museum directors, and others. Art is a human activity and humanity is nothing but one great collaboration. Part of Kolaj LIVE Online, Collage Castell is a collaborative collage making project and exchange. The deadline to join is August 25, 2020. MORE INFO & JOIN
Image: Family Affair was started by Krysia Kolodziej and finished by Phyllis Famiglietti
Radical Reimaginings is sent automatically to members of the Silver Scissors & Golden Glue Societies and those who join before September 15th, 2020. These special subscribers support the work of Kolaj Institute while receiving an item from Kolaj each month. LEARN MORE
BOOK
Radical Reimaginings
The curators of the 96-page book invited artists who use collage in their practice to put forward a work of art that offers a visual narrative that speaks to the unprecedented change unfolding in 2020. An essay by Ric Kasini Kadour reflects upon collage's unique ability to imagine new realities. Forty artists from nine countries and multiple Indigenous peoples—Salish-Kootenai/Métis-Cree/Sho-Ban, Tlingit/Nisga’a, Oglala/Lakota, and Seneca Nation—offer a variety of perspectives. The voices of Black, Latinx, Native, and white Americans mingle with those from Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Canada, France, and Germany. Artwork is accompanied by a statement in which the artists describe how they want to reimagine the world. MORE
PUBLICATION
Kolaj LIVE Online Program Book
The Kolaj LIVE Online Program Book is your guide to the event. The 62-page book includes in-depth descriptions of the fourteen Kolaj LIVE Online events along with biographies of the presenters and institutional partners. The book serves as the catalog for the Kolaj Institute Fundraising Exhibition. It also comes with four starter collages to participate in the Collage Castell activity, a cat-themed Cut Out Page for the Cat & Paste Workshop, and a commentary about the creation of the event. MORE
CURRENT ISSUE
KOLAJ #29
In the magazine: One of David Crunelle's lenticular collage is on the cover. Articles talk about the 'Cool Zone' of history; award winning collage; a new publishing project; how collage artists are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic; a report from Warsaw, Poland; going big with murals; an exhibition of Max Ernst collages; a profile of Amsterdam-based collagist Bob Bunck; and a Cut Out Page by Aylmer, Quebec artist Louise Héroux. Andrea Burgay and Clive Knights continue their conversation about excavation as a metaphor for ideas. And we have artist portfolios from Vancouver, Canada; Saugerties, New York; Tucson, Arizona; Mexico City, Mexico; and San Francisco, California. MORE
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. 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.
