{"id":4167,"date":"2019-04-14T01:28:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T05:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2019-12-24T11:38:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T16:38:11","slug":"holger-becker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/holger-becker","title":{"rendered":"Holger Becker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLandscape #3<\/em>
\n15.7″x19.6″; paper collage; 2016<\/p>\n

Holger Becker
\nNuremberg, Germany<\/strong><\/p>\n

STATEMENT & BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am a visual artist who studied Fine Arts in Hamburg. I now live in Nuremberg. I got deeper into making analogue collages after I stopped painting. One day in 2014 while I was hunting for material, I found a three-metre long row of old picture books in the street. The books were mostly black-and-white landscapes of Germany in the 1950s and 60s, the Wirtschaftswunder<\/em> era. I started my landscape series from that source material. When collaging, I work slowly, but on several pieces at the same time so things keep growing. To build a landscape collage, I create many layers with many pieces. The figures that appear in my collages allow me to create a narrative. I see the whole process around making collage as a journey: a room, a table, the paper, the cutter, the glue…collecting, finding patterns…grouping…archiving material…finding old books and magazines…finding fragments…cutting, tearing, coincidence, gluing, the hand of chance, memory, layering, selecting, remembering, combining, deciding…searching…surprising myself…gluing. I look at collage as its own medium with an unbelievably large variety of possibilities and techniques.<\/p>\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n

[click to email<\/a>]
\nwww.holgerbecker.com<\/a><\/p>\n

IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nLandscape #1<\/em>
\n15.7″x19.6″; paper collage; 2016<\/p>\n

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\nwalk of thoughts<\/em>
\n9.8″x7″; paper collage; 2016<\/p>\n

\"holger-becker-das-geschenk\"
\nDas Geschenk<\/em> (The Gift)
\n7.3″x7″; paper collage; 2016<\/p>\n

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\nBlackbird<\/em>
\n9.8″x7″; paper collage; 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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