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“I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.”
― Billy Joel
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NEWS
Our first Cut It Out collage workshop in collaboration with Julia Volonts from Art Therapy Lab will take place on Sunday, January 21st. This is an online workshop and as always free to attend. To sign up, please contact Julia directly. All information below…
Un Monde Meilleur - a collage exhibition by Laure Rolin (who contributes regularly to our weekly challenges) here in Paris (well, almost Paris) - January 16 to March 03, 2024. All information below…
These works are juxtaposed with a drawing of Mandelbaum’s father, Arié Mandelbaum, from 1982. Mandelbaum portrays his father’s likeness in graphite, with collage and text elements scattered throughout the composition. In the center is an arresting phrase in Yiddish, which translates to “Kiss my ass.” - Stéphane Mandelbaum’s Drawings of Human Depravity - via Hyperallergic
Rand said he began the project by buying canvases, painting them black and then putting collages on them that consisted of newspapers as old as 1868 and magazines dating back to 1910 that he had bought since he was a kid at flea markets and that were given to him by people who were throwing them away. - He made 613 paintings of commandments and 915 collages of proverbs — but who’s got room to show them all? - via Forward
From his friend’s invitation to make color copies and enlarge photos came the idea to start a magazine. That magazine was Skills (1992–95), a seminal publication with an outsized influence for its short run. Contributors sent in their photographs (or “flicks”) and Lamarche arranged them into collages, which he photocopied, producing 100 copies of the first issue. In 1993, the music chain Tower Records picked it up for distribution, and 10,000 copies of the seventh and last issue were printed. - The Creative Power of Mischief - via Hyperallergic
Your paintings are composed of many layers, built up like sediment, in a purely additive process. Their shapes are architectural, ordered, but irregular; features protrude and retreat into shelf-like crevices. Their surface is a mix of painted fur and fabric plus areas that are modeled and clay-like. - Kari Cholnoky by Emily Davidson - via Bomb
Installed on the elevated platforms of 39 Avenue-Dutch Kills, Sarah Morris’s “Hellion Equilibrium” (2018) abstractly references the station’s satellite mapping location through a colorful glass collage of parallelograms, trapezoids, and rhombuses divided by heavy black borders. - 24 Exceptional Subway Artworks to See in NYC - via Hyperallergic
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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