WORDS TO LIVE BY
“Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates. Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and colour tell us of form and colour—that is all. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.”
― Oscar Wilde
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EXHIBITION: collage exhibition of work by Morgane Hebert here in Paris. All pieces are for sale, and 100% of the benefits will go to ARSLA to fund research on motor neurone disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). If you can’t make it, and most of you obviously won’t be able to, feel free to get in touch with Morgane directly to show your support (morally and financially). Thank you!
His exhibit walks viewers through the evolution of print media, from its early phases through its local and national declines. Atseff’s artwork consists of paintings, political cartoons, and collages. - Retired Syracuse journalist reflects on the decline of print news in ‘Final Edition’ at the Everson - via Central Current
In a time that feels like so long ago, I used to cut out images from magazines and newspapers and place them, or should I say collaged, onto my bedroom wall. It was really the only place to source imagery, to save images that spoke to you, and you ended up re-purposing and creating a whole new world for yourself. - Ever Velasquez Collages a Spiritual and Contemporary Vision in "Chispa" - via Juxtapoz
She began to cry and their feelings overwhelmed all judgment. They made the delirious last love of lost destiny. There was so much emotion in that room that it poured off Kismet’s old mattress, out from under the quilt her mother had pieced together from Kismet’s favorite T-shirts. That emotion altered the surfaces in Kismet’s childhood bedroom. The shelves of treasured books, jewelry boxes, and wire daisy-shaped earring hangers all shuddered with fateful pleasure. The many collages she had made from magazines—collages of eyes that were sightless, lips that couldn’t speak, hands that couldn’t touch—suddenly came alive and there was babbling, blinking, whispering, touching. Life was all around them in a whirling haze of heart-lifting happiness. It could never be replicated. It could never come true. That’s what made it so powerful. - The Mighty Red - via Literary Hub
Although the artist has risen to international recognition for her three-dimensional pieces, an exhibition at The Arts Club of Chicago peers into another side of her practice. Flat Works surveys two decades of Yang’s paintings, prints, and collages, including her captivating series, Mesmerizing Mesh. - Symmetric Paper Collages by Haegue Yang Commune with the Spiritual - via Colossal
In my Rose Window series, I explore the intersection of environmental concern and artistic expression, blending low material and high art. This body of work, created using collage for the first time, reflects my deep engagement with the aesthetics of daily life and waste. - I Create Beauty From The Mundane - via Bored Panda
Conveying complex themes through illustrations can be difficult and confusing. Italian artist Beppe Conti manages to navigate this well, creating editorial illustrations and collages that combine pop sensibility with timely themes and relevant issues of our time. - Beppe Conti’s Compelling Collages - via Moss and Fog
After World War II, Höch increasingly dedicated herself to Surrealism. Her works became more fantastical, more connected to nature and its timeless rhythms, more visionary: in the photomontage “Vivace” (1955), hints of an eye, lip, and collar seem to suggest an identity in flux, a dreamlike countenance in constant motion. Yet the World War II-era images are the most captivating, such as “Hungarian Rhapsody,” a collage from 1940, the year Hungary joined the Axis powers. - The Cutting Satire of Hannah Höch’s Collages - via Hyperallergic
Ghost and Spirit, an exhibition at Tate Modern, revisits the experimental, anarchic and influential work of the artist, whose practice from the late 1970s to his death straddles drawing, collage, performance and video. - Stuffed animals, Superman and communing with spirits: the wacky world of Mike Kelley explored in Tate Modern survey - via The Art Newspaper
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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