{"id":3946,"date":"2015-08-16T01:26:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T05:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2015-08-17T23:09:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T03:09:30","slug":"gemma-anton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-artists\/gemma-anton\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemma Anton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3967\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/5_espacios-parentesis_kolajmag_equilibrium-1_300.jpg\" alt=\"5_espacios-parentesis_kolajmag_equilibrium-1_300\" width=\"700\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/5_espacios-parentesis_kolajmag_equilibrium-1_300.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/5_espacios-parentesis_kolajmag_equilibrium-1_300-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/5_espacios-parentesis_kolajmag_equilibrium-1_300-600x454.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/5_espacios-parentesis_kolajmag_equilibrium-1_300-560x424.jpg 560w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/5_espacios-parentesis_kolajmag_equilibrium-1_300-260x197.jpg 260w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/5_espacios-parentesis_kolajmag_equilibrium-1_300-160x121.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FROM <a href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/issues\/kolaj-13\" target=\"_blank\">KOLAJ #13<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Artist Portfolio:\u00a0Gemma Anton<\/h2>\n<p>Gemma Anton, who works under the name espacios-parentesis, is an architect who sees public space as a \u201cmoving collage\u201d of differences. As a lifetime spectator of great collagists, she figured the next natural step was trying to make them herself. Now, cutting and pasting has become more a need than a choice.<\/p>\n<p>A portfolio of Anton&#8217;s work appears in <a href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/issues\/kolaj-13\" target=\"_blank\">KOLAJ #13<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;The play between black and white space in Anton\u2019s abstract work is a point of interest, as the black acts as a positive space within the white area, whereas it feels as if it should be a negative opening or abyss.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">-Ariane Fairlie<\/p>\n<p>Anton splits her time between Paris and Valencia. She is listed in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/espacios-parentesis-gemma-anton\" target=\"_blank\">Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory<\/a>.\u00a0To see the\u00a0Artist Portfolio,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/issues\/kolaj-13\" target=\"_blank\">PURCHASE KOLAJ #13<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\">SUBSCRIBE<\/a> to never miss an issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image:\u00a0<\/strong><em>equilibrium 1<\/em>\u00a0by Gemma Anton (8.2&#8243;x10.8&#8243;; cut-and-paste: paper, thread and staples on cardboard; 2013)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FROM KOLAJ #13 Artist Portfolio:\u00a0Gemma Anton Gemma Anton, who works under the name espacios-parentesis, is an architect who sees public space as a \u201cmoving collage\u201d of differences. As a lifetime spectator of great collagists, she figured the next natural step&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-artists\/gemma-anton\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/5_espacios-parentesis_kolajmag_equilibrium-1_300.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2QTD7-11E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4709,"url":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/artist-portfolio-jordan-westre\/","url_meta":{"origin":3946,"position":0},"title":"Artist Portfolio: Jordan Westre","author":"Christopher Byrne","date":"3 April 2016","format":"gallery","excerpt":"Artist Portfolio:\u00a0Jordan Westre In his Manifesto of Surrealism, Anton Breton wrote, \u201cEverything is valid when it comes to obtaining the desired suddenness from certain associations.\u201d Breton understood surrealism as a way of being in the moment and allowing that moment to be hypnagogic or in between the realities of wakefulness\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/category\/content\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/jordan-westre-the-view-from-gods-garden.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/jordan-westre-the-view-from-gods-garden.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/jordan-westre-the-view-from-gods-garden.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/jordan-westre-the-view-from-gods-garden.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4399,"url":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/kolaj-14-cover-artist\/","url_meta":{"origin":3946,"position":1},"title":"X Is the Weapon &#038; the Cover Is Armed","author":"Christopher Byrne","date":"2 December 2015","format":"gallery","excerpt":"Kolaj #14 Cover Artist Michael Ziobrowski Not an issue of Kolaj goes by when we don\u2019t consider a project by Michael Ziobrowski who sometimes uses the moniker X Is the Weapon. 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