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COLLAGE ON VIEW
Open House at the Memory Palace
at the Baton Rouge Gallery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA through 26 October 2023. Jacqueline Dee Parker writes, "Building a memory palace is a way of recalling what one wishes not to forget. In the context of my work, it serves as a metaphor for interrogation of remembered spaces. Source materials include antique and vintage papers from music, literature and other ephemera. These chosen fragments of lived experience reference a personal lineage as well as my esteem for the analog culture that is rapidly dematerializing from all human life." MORE
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Surreal & Abstract
Novi, Michigan, USA. Peter Manschot is currently producing images in the Surreal and Abstract genres that incorporate copier experimentation, and photography techniques, augmented with art mixed media techniques. Some of the copier experiments go back to teaching high school, where he was using a copier that could only do ONE color at a time. These were saved and he found them not to have changed in color in over 30 years. They became the foundation for the first phase of abstract compositions. He later evolved into using his current multi-copier to create new experiments–textural and photo. MORE
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Artist Portfolio: Barbara Bertino
Frankfurt am Main, Germany. "I feel inspired by everything that has soul and everything that touches my heart: music, a light summer breeze, the stars at night." A portfolio of Bertino's artwork appears in Kolaj 38.MORE
Each issue of Kolaj Magazine features portfolios of contemporary artists in each issue alongside critical commentary as a means of developing a deeper understanding of collage as both a medium and a genre.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Art Material-ism
at Catto Gallery in London, England, United Kingdom through 6 November 2023. “Art Material-ism”, curated by Ian Berry, features international artists known for their use of unorthodox materials collaged together to make incredible art. They often employ materials that are easily accessible and readily available in the everyday. This exhibition displays works created from scrap metal, wallpaper cut-offs, paint swatches, tulle fabrics, packing tape and even car interiors. Berry's artwork, featured here, is made entirely of denim. MORE
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COLLAGE BOOKS
Punti di Vista e di Partenza
The book explores the variety of practices in which Luc Fierens has tried his hand in forty years of activity, proposing a path through the collagist’s different creative periods. The book showcases Fierens’ earlier works from the eighties and nineties, which were chaotic, inspired by surrealist and pop styles and characterized by strong critical content. Currently, his collages are less chaotic, with a perfect mastery of the tear and with less excited tones, but still always committed at an ideological level. MORE
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Edmonds Waterfront Center Squared
Northwest Collage Society at the Edmonds Waterfront Center in Edmonds, Washington, USA through 3 January 2024. The Northwest Collage Society's fall show, "Edmonds Waterfront Center Squared", features more than 60 collage artworks from its diverse members. All collages for this show are on 12"x12" cradle board, with an open theme that allowed for individual artistry to shine through. Juried by Sharon Grader. MORE
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Exploring grief through found objects & cut edges
Lorane, Oregon, USA. By creating collages, Beth I. Robinson explores grief through found objects and cut edges. She writes, "Often in my work fragments, ghosts of materials, soft pencil lines, or patterns can be seen. Capturing these momentary voices accentuates the missing, forgotten, or things often left unspoken beneath the surface of loss. At eight years old, my grandfather died. The adults around me were heartbroken. In their awkwardness, they gave me glue, magazines, and adult size scissors. I was fully present in those sobering moments of youthful innocence about death and refused to lose my sense of wonder. This art practice cultivated an outlet for the unique conflict loss prompts." MORE
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Kolaj #38
Lost Collages; Southern Axis; Poetic Collage; The Abbondanza of Order & Chaos; The Rare Hallucination of Reality…Defragmented; Billboards; The Secret Life of Plants...Kolaj 38 is chock full of news, ideas, thinking about collage and its place in the world. LEARN MORE
Kolaj Magazine exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.
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"I Cut Therefore I Kolaj" T-shirt
Since we started Kolaj Magazine in 2011, people have been asking about t-shirts. Well, we finally made one. We are pleased to announce the "I Cut Therefore I Kolaj" T-shirt. We hope you like it and wear it with pride. MORE
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NEW PUBLICATION
Collage Saves the World
The artwork in Co llage Saves the World offers viewers an opportunity to reflect on how collage can speak to issues of racism, colorism, ableism, and sexism; the war in Ukraine; climate change and the importance of permaculture; beauty standards and women’s autonomy. The title is the second book from Kolaj Institute’s Politics in Collage Project, a series of residencies, publications, discussions, and exhibitions examining complex socio-political issues that contemporary society is contending with, in order to spark meaningful dialogue and inspire deeper engagement. MORE
POETRY JOURNAL
PoetryXCollage
Volume Four
PoetryXCollage is a printed journal of artwork and writing which operates at the intersection of poetry and collage. We are interested in found poetry, blackout poetry, collage poems, haikus, centos, response collages, response poems, word scrambles, concrete poetry, scatter collage poems, and other poems and artwork that inhabit this world. In this issue: Jessa Dupuis, Cobble Hill, British Columbia, Canada | John Rigney, Buffalo, New York, USA | Kait O’Brien, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA | sadé powell, Staten Island, New York, USA | Yoomee Ko, New York, New York, USA | Collaborations by Kerrie More, Jessa Dupuis, Julie Byers, Carolina Martins, and Kait O’Brien. On the cover is a detail of Body, a collaboration by Julie Byers, Kerrie More, and Carolina Martins.
COLLAGE BOOK
Folklore of the Upper Nithsdale
Stories of Witches, Ghosts, & Other Spirits from Sanquhar, Scotland
Thirty-three collage artists illustrate stories of witches, ghosts, and other spirits from Sanquhar, Scotland. Using stories collected from William Wilson’s 1904 book, artists reimagine these tales in a 21st Century context and invite us to see folklore as the imagination of the past, understood in the present. The book includes an introduction by Ric Kasini Kadour. MORE
NEW PUBLICATION
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin & illustrated by contemporary collage artists
Set in New Orleans, Chopin’s 1899 novel, focuses on Edna Pontellier, an upper-class New Orleans woman, torn between expectations and desires. In the beginning of the novel Edna appears to live in a semi-conscious state, trapped in the mundane aspects of her life. As the story evolves, she encounters new people and experiences that create an awakening shift within her. The Awakening, touches on 19th century feminism, identity, and societal themes. MORE
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Our goal with every issue is that Kolaj Magazine is essential reading for anyone interested in the role of contemporary collage in art, culture, and society. Each issue of Kolaj Magazine is dedicated to reviewing and surveying contemporary collage with an international perspective. We are interested in collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century art movement.
