{"id":6765,"date":"2018-04-03T14:33:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T18:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=6765"},"modified":"2018-04-03T14:44:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T18:44:15","slug":"2018-world-collage-day-poster-celebrates-the-collage-of-michael-pajon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-events\/2018-world-collage-day-poster-celebrates-the-collage-of-michael-pajon\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 World Collage Day Poster Celebrates the Collage of Michael Pajon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kolaj Magazine<\/em> is pleased to announce Michael Pajon as the 2018 World Collage Day<\/a> poster artist.<\/h2>\n

Based in New Orleans, Pajon crafts elaborate, dense compositions inspired by Catholic reliquaries, antique cabinet cards, carnivalesque board games that trade on complex narratives and still-life-esque vanitas and he does this with a deep understanding of his source material; its functional place in history; and its present-day obsolescence.<\/p>\n

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The source materials for Pajon’s collages are integral to his process. He sees his practice as a means of bringing old, outdated textbooks, readers, medical books, the ancient encyclopedic knowledge, into a contemporary dialogue with the viewer. In this sense, a finished work is a bridge over time. Pajon is not simply using the visual language of the paper fragments he includes in his collage, he is using their history–the nostalgic images of children from elementary readers, the off-portrayal of wildlife from inaccurate encyclopedias, and the over simplified illustration of human anatomy–to weave a narrative about our place in the world and how we have come to understand it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCollage is the perfect repository for obsolescence,\u201d said Pajon. \u201cThese obsolete ways of storytelling are no longer viable, people aren\u2019t going to be interested, this is not the way we tell stories any longer. I fight the notion that there\u2019s nostalgia. I\u2019m more interested in that place where things come together; where one movement takes over from the next one. There\u2019s a space, a gray in-between, that\u2019s kind of interesting.\u201d These days, Pajon takes inspiration from art “that is making reference to life and death in ways that speak to our turn-of-the-century existence,” he said. “We are in this weird place of collapse, for some, and exuberance for others. You\u2019re watching a lot of things fray at the edges. For collage, that\u2019s a perfect place to be. Take those frayed edges and make something out of them.”<\/p>\n

\"\"For World Collage Day<\/a>, Pajon composed an image of an anthropomorphized bird, his human hands hold a pair of scissors and a banner heralding the day. Pajon\u2019s image will grace the cover of a Special Edition<\/a> being prepared by Kolaj Magazine<\/em> that features Cut Out Pages, artist profiles, and stories about collage. The image will also be made into an enamel pin.<\/p>\n

PURCHASE THE WORLD COLLAGE DAY SPECIAL FEATURE AT ARTSHOP<\/a><\/p>\n

ABOUT WORLD COLLAGE DAY<\/h2>\n

World Collage Day<\/a> is an international celebration of collage on Saturday, May 12, 2018. Kolaj Magazine<\/em> invites you to submit events taking place on that day that celebrate collage. Learn more at:\u00a0www.kolajmagazine.com\/worldcollageday\/<\/a><\/p>\n

ABOUT MICHAEL PAJON<\/h2>\n

A native of Chicago, Michael Pajon lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana. He holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in New Orleans, Chicago, Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Basel, and London. Pajon’s collage, Baptised by the Sea in Flayed Skin and Coral Crown<\/em>, was featured on the cover of Kolaj<\/em> #15<\/a> along with a profile by Ric Kasini Kadour, “A Bridge Over Time”. Later this year, Pajon’s work will be on display at the Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco as part of the collage exhibition “Remains to Be Seen”. Visit www.michaelpajon.com<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n

Images (centre to bottom):<\/strong>
\nDon’t Play with Your Food<\/em>
\nby Michael Pajon
\nmixed media collage on antique book covers<\/p>\n

The Man with the Gilded Face<\/em>
\nby Michael Pajon
\n20″x16.5″; mixed media collage on antique book cover; 2014<\/p>\n

Images courtesy of the artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kolaj Magazine is pleased to announce Michael Pajon as the 2018 World Collage Day poster artist. Based in New Orleans, Pajon crafts elaborate, dense compositions inspired by Catholic reliquaries, antique cabinet cards, carnivalesque board games that trade on complex narratives…<\/p>\n

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