FROM THE KOLAJ #19
Artist Portfolio
Jacques Marchal aka Marjac
Liege, Belgium
Surrealism’s greatest value to Modernism is its ability to reconcile, on an irrational level, outdated epistemological systems with contemporary facts and experiences. In the world of Surrealist art, two types emerge. There are those artists who use Surrealism to explain away the various non sequiturs, eccentricities, and caprices that arise in their work and there are those artists who employ a set of studied techniques to, in the words of André Breton, “resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality.” Jacques Marchal is one such practitioner of Surrealism.
A portfolio of Marchal’s work appears in Kolaj #19. To see the complete Artist Portfolio, SUBSCRIBE to Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue.
Jacques Marchal’s career was focused on administration and marketing in the Belgian aviation industry. Self-taught, Marjac created Surrealist oil paintings in the 1980s and, by chance, started working in collage in 2003. He lives, creates collage and writes short stories in Liege, Belgium. Learn more at collage-marjac.be.
Image (top):
Éléphant de Mer by Marjac (11.4″x7.5″; paper, glue; 2016)
Image (centre):
Arrête ton Char, Simone by Marjac (9″x6.7″; paper, glue; 2015)