Drawing Surrealism at The Morgan Library & Museum

25 January-21 April 2013

Although collage was used earlier in the twentieth century by the cubist and dada artists, the technique took on particular importance with the surrealists. The odd juxtapositions and dislocated imagery it produced were particularly effective in conjuring a dream world or suggesting the irrationality of unconscious desire. Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Ei-Kyu, André Breton, and Jean Arp are among the many artists whose works are featured in the collage section of the exhibition.

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André Stas at Galerie 100 Titres

2 February-24 March 2013

“We Will Remember This Planet”: Marking out the playground boundaries, setting rules, cutting up, recycling, gathering materials, clashing ideas, naming objects, arranging in series: This is André Stas’ technique, even if sometimes he does something different, as he loves to play tricks.

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Issue Two Cut Out Page Winner

In each issue of Kolaj Magazine, we publish a Cut Out Page where we present imagery from various sources, carefully selected by our team of contributors or occasional guests. We then encourage you, dear reader, to cut out some of these images to create your own collage and send it to us.

After all the entries are in, we pick the one we like the best. For Issue Two, that work is by….

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Suzanne Lafrance & Stéphanie Morissette at Galerie Dominique Bouffard

7 February – 3 March 2013

“Dans la proximité des ombres” (In the nearness of shadows): Suzanne Lafrance and Stéphanie Morissette open at Galerie Dominique Bouffard in Montreal in February. Lafrance’s work is of particular interest to those who follow collage. She creates characters by combining charcoal drawings and pages cut from books. The effect is a dialogue between language and figure.

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