{"id":9036,"date":"2019-12-22T13:05:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T18:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=9036"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:26:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T14:26:53","slug":"life-is-a-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/life-is-a-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Is a Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jump <\/em>by Mieke Messer
9.8″x9.8″; paper on paper; 2017. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

FROM KOLAJ 27<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artist Portfolio: Mieke Messer, Amsterdam, Netherlands<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mieke Messer owns a fashion company in the Netherlands and has been studying collage with Bob Bunck in Amsterdam the past six years. \u201cMesser is a dancer, and a so-called theatre animal. She likes the stage, the scenes, and all its movements and she loves Bauhaus,\u201d writes Bunck. The awareness of theatre, dance, and Bauhaus is apparent in Messer\u2019s collage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Artist Portfolio of Mieke Messer’s work appears in KOLAJ #27<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To see the complete Artist Portfolio, <\/em>SUBSCRIBE to <\/em>Kolaj Magazine<\/a> or <\/em>Get a Copy of the Issue<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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left to right:
Save the Last Dance for Me<\/em> (9.8″x7″; paper on cardboard; 2017)
Waiting for Godot<\/em> (12″x7″; paper on paper napkin; 2018)
Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bunck writes, \u201cThe strength of her work is that daily life becomes theatre. She shows us that the world is a stage, and life is a theatre.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To see the complete Artist Portfolio, <\/em>SUBSCRIBE to Kolaj Magazine<\/em><\/a> or <\/em>Get a Copy of the Issue<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mieke Messer lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You can see more of her work at www.collagesonly.com<\/a>, on Facebook @collages only<\/a>, and on Instagram @miekemessercollages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FROM KOLAJ 27 Artist Portfolio: Mieke Messer, Amsterdam, Netherlands Mieke Messer owns a fashion company in the Netherlands and has been studying collage with Bob Bunck in Amsterdam the past six years. \u201cMesser is a dancer, and a so-called theatre…<\/p>\n

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