
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don't think, 'oh, I love this picture because it's universal.' 'I love this painting because it speaks to all mankind.' That's not the reason anyone loves a piece of art. It's a secret whisper from an alleyway. Psst, you. Hey kid. Yes, you. ... You see one painting, I see another, the art book puts it at another remove still, the lady buying the greeting card at the museum gift shop sees something else entirely, an that's not even to mention the people separated from us by time -four hundred years before us, four hundred years after we're gone- it'll never strike anybody the same way and the great majority of people it'll never strike in any deep way at all but- a really great painting is fluid enough to work its way into the mind and heart through all kinds of different angles, in ways that are unique and very particular. Yours, yours. I was painted for you.”
― Donna Tartt
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OPEN CALL: After a little break, our Earth Day Open Call is back. In the tradition of choosing a specific colour each year, green in 2019, blue in 2020, and yellow in 2021, PCC wants to turn its Instagram feed red in 2024.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create a collage or mixed media piece dealing with, in the broadest sense possible, environmental issues, climate change, endangered species and pollution. Deadline for email submissions is April 22nd, 2024 (plus a generous 24 hours for inevitable latecomers). All information available here
Oyjon Khayrullaeva is a young Uzbek artist from the city of Bukhara who is claiming the heritage of architecture, interior decoration and cultural objects to invite a conversation on identity, but also on feminism, gender relations and gender-based violence in Uzbek society, where patriarchy remains the dominating discourse in most families. Khayrullaeva's work is mostly a combination of photography and digital collage that can be seen on her Instagram account. - Creating digital collage in Uzbekistan: Interview with artist Oyjon Khayrullaeva - via Global Voices
This spring the Vermont Supreme Court Gallery presents “Material Matters,” a collection of hand-colored and black and white photographic images and mixed media collage by Weybridge artist Victoria Blewer. - Weybridge artist opens exhibit at Vt. Supreme Court Gallery - via Addison County Indpendent
Belgian artist Camiel Van Breedam launched his career in the late 1950s, when peinture informelle (abstract gestural painting) was still going strong. At an early stage, he made the leap from abstract geometric painting, with an emphasis on matter, to assemblage sculpture and collage—works, both formalist and historicizing, made from ordinary laborer’s tools and the remnants of shuttered factories, and often fraught with meaning. - Love, Hope, and Socialism: A Conversation with Camiel Van Breedam - via sculpture
Collage was his primary medium, but his work spanned printmaking, tapestry, ceramics and the totemic sculptures that embellish our public spaces. A bear of a man bursting with energy, his teaching inspired such talents as Terence Conran and Stuart Sutcliffe – the fifth Beatle – while his artwork illuminated the songs of another Beatle, Paul McCartney. - The naughty Edinburgh schoolboy who became a titan of modern art… even if he did baffle the Queen! - via Mail Online
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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