WORDS TO LIVE BY
“Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.”
― Marcel Proust
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VIRTUAL STUDIO SERIES: Transitioning from our CUT IT OUT bi-monthly series, we are launching the "Paris Collage Collective Virtual Studio Series", designed, as always, by our resident art therapist Julia Volonts of Art Therapy Lab and now in collaboration with the School of Visual Arts NYC Art Therapy Department. It will offer the experience to try art therapy and experience collage as a therapeutic tool. It will run monthly (from Sept - May) with the first session happening this Sunday, Sept 29th. Participation is as always free. Please email Julia at hello@arttherapy-lab.com to sign up!
COLLAGE WORKSHOP: As part of the Big Bang Vintage Festival in Gran Canaria, Miren Stillitani Mugica will be hosting a wine collage workshop. For registrations and more information, please have a look here
Tanning had already published the first of her two memoirs and was increasingly turning to literary pursuits. The collages, with their scraps of fabric, tissue, paper, watercolor, and ink, can give the sense that the artist picked up past works’ detritus from her studio floor and decided she might as well make art out of it. Largely abstract, with a few figurative elements (the artist’s hands, cats’ paws, a faucet, a bicycle), the pieces serve to ignite viewers’ imaginations and encourage them to fashion their own interpretations. - Dorothea Tanning Explored New Worlds Through Collage - via Hyperallergic
I’ve always thought of my work as an expanded collage. I always work in collaging in a sculptural way, and the videos feel very collaged; the language, even the titles, very often consists of bits of found language collaged together to find a new purpose or meaning for things. - Expanded Collage: A Conversation with Laura Aldridge - via Sculpture
As a lifelong mixed-media collagist and collector, Chermayeff incorporated many of the objects he found into both his personal and professional work. The pieces shown within “Copy, Cut + Paste: The Visual Language of Ivan Chermayeff” exemplify his playful and experimental point of view and the way in which he used collage and mixed media to unlock new ways of seeing. - SVA’s Latest Exhibition Showcases Ivan Chermayeff’s Personal Art Practice - via Print
A digital collage entered in ArtPrize is informed by the artist’s experience as a Black man, but he said he doesn’t want to dictate how viewers interpret it. - Digital collage about Black experience offers ‘opportunities for empathy’ - via woodtv
Moorhouse found that collage was another favourite method of creating. He made use of two types of collage; the first included intricately folded tissue paper glued in layers, with images gradually developing through the paper pieces. Secondly, Moorhouse used real mahogany panelling, mounted with acrylic shapes and dried leaves. The material was then covered with a clear veneer glaze. - REMEMBER THIS? Painting the town gray with Moorhouse - via SOOTODAY
On Instagram, the band defended the cover, writing, “The Songs For A Nervous Planet album artwork is a mixed media digital collage, with AI being just one of the many tools used in the creative process.” - Tears for Fears defend using AI to create new album cover art - via Far Out
His process begins much the way many millennials and Gen Zers spend their downtime: scanning the digital universe for compelling images. Rouy photoshops them into a collage, but he doesn’t paint the collage per se. It’s more of a jumping-off point. His first round of painting, using acrylics, is relatively literal; subsequent layers get increasingly abstract, blurring the forms together in a manner that suggests motion but also chaos and angst. “There is something existential about the work,” he says. - Meet George Rouy, the 30-Year-Old British Painter With a Knack for Making Things ‘Bleed’ - via Robb Report
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A selection of challenge submissions from last week is up on our website and can be seen here, the image prompt for next week is available to download here
Our 2024 Workbook is out and available for sale on our website. Our weekly creative challenge remains free and open to everyone and everything, digital or analog artists, French or not. The workbook is an optional add-on for those who prefer to work with paper and don’t want to print our images themselves. Like every year, the book is designed so that you can either take it apart or create your collages in the book itself. Week numbers and image sources are on the back of each image, so even if your books falls apart at one point, you will always know what’s what!
And last but not least, have a look at and/or submit to our ‘other’ Instagram account Paris Collage Collective Unlimited where we showcase collages that have absolutely nothing to do with our weekly creative challenge.
If you have any news about exhibitions, publications or events you want so share with the community, please send an email with all relevant information and at least one link to a website or venue to: hello@pariscollagecollective.com