{"id":76,"date":"2011-10-29T20:46:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T20:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=76"},"modified":"2011-11-07T21:15:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T02:15:41","slug":"edvard-derkert-talks-about-collage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/edvard-derkert-talks-about-collage\/","title":{"rendered":"Edvard Derkert Talks About Collage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Edvard Derkert<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first cut is the deepest. I encountered the collage at the age of 12 through album covers of the Beatles and Frank Zappa. Also, their music went hand in hand with collage. Early post production. I was very young, everything was possible, collage became my means of expression. A true collage kid. I cut up pictures, texts, films and music.\u00a0 Collage was, in my experience, rooted in pop culture; the history of\u00a0 modern art came to me years later, but it was not a big surprise when I found out that the Beatles had collaborated with Peter Blake and Richard Hamilton \u2013 two of the major figures in British pop art. So from early on in my life I have more or less been glued to the collage. Collage: yes, glue: no.For 15 years or so, I have been a pixel man. Pixel is short for picture element and they can only be found on the computer screen. But it is not the use of glue that defines a collage. To me, it is a mental activity. A way of thinking. Making leaps between distant fields, making juxtapositions, marrying the odd couple. The British painter Ben Nicholson hits the nail on the head: “The collage work is ever present, despite the fact that I haven’t touched one in years, in the structure of thinking.”<\/p>\n

What is the appeal of collage? To me it is the swiftness of the technique and the element of surprise. I am a fast thinker and quite impatient so collage, either traditional or digital, fits me like a glove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Edvard Derkert<\/h3>\n

\nThe first cut is the deepest. I encountered the collage at the age of 12 through album covers of the Beatles and Frank Zappa. Also, their music went hand in hand with collage. Early post production. I was very young, everything was possible, collage became my means of expression. A true collage kid. I cut up pictures, texts, films and music. Collage was, in my experience, rooted in pop culture; the history of modern art came to me years later, but it was not a big surprise when I found out that the Beatles had collaborated with Peter Blake and Richard Hamilton \u2013 two of the major figures in British pop art. So from early on in my life I have more or less been glued to the collage.<\/p>\n

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