THE WEEKENDER 17 | 2023
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THE WEEKENDER 17 | 2023
Collage News & Inspiration
HELLO EVERYONE,
and welcome to this week’s Weekender.
As you can see, we finally, finally got the official poster for the Rachid Taha exhibition, and we couldn’t be more excited about it. Congratulations to Marta Caccamo who made the cover.
We collected analog collages only from our French artists and a very special group of British artists - more on this in our next newsletter - but ended up creating fine art prints of everything else. The logistics of requesting originals that would then need to be send back to their respective creators turned out to be too complicated. This is the first Paris Collage Collective exhibition, and there was a lot of “figuring things out along the way” and “learning lessons” going on.
We’re happy that we managed to pull this exhibition off on a shoestring budget. As some of you know, most group exhibitions charge fees to cover their expenses.
For those of you who worried about the quality of the reproductions: everything was printed on heavyweight Hahnemühle William Turner paper, a watercolour paper made of 100% cotton.
For those of you who wanted to know what will happen to your collages after the exhibition: there is very, very, very small chance that they will be displayed again during another event later in the year - we keep knocking on doors - so they will stay at the Centre Anim’ for now.
The exhibition will run from May 9 to June 3, 2023. The vernissage will be Thursday, May 11th, at 6:30pm, and will include music by cellist Laura Volpato and a lecture of texts by Rachid Taha. We will share photos on Instagram, our website and this here newsletter. All participating artists can be seen here
And now, before this newsletter gets too long again, the latest collage news and inspiration!
Enjoy!
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NEWS
Watching Judy Blume read excerpts from her own novels aloud is one of the standout pleasures in the documentary Judy Blume Forever. And while it's delightful to hear the beloved author's interpretation of key passages from classics like Deenie, Blubber, and more, these scenes are elevated by Andrew Griffin and Martin O'Neill's fanciful animated collages - How 'Judy Blume Forever' uses animation to illustrate taboo topics - via Mashable
Strips of paper are transformed into flowering forms through the art of Lyndi Sales. The Cape Town-based artist harnesses these flat materials, paints them, and arranges them in mesmerizing collages that spiral and fan out across the wall—mimicking microscopic life, animal textures, and even distant nebulae - Swirling Strips of Layered Paper Sculptures Explore Life’s Ephemerality - via My Modern Met
Sterling-Wilson focuses on photography and collage art in her studio at the famed Bromo Seltzer Tower in downtown Baltimore. Her collage art specifically focuses on society’s representation of African Americans through newspapers, magazine clippings and fabric - How a Baltimore-born collagist grew from local exhibitions to an Ebony magazine cover - via The Baltimore Banner
What makes a photographer? British-French artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz, whose sensitively observed work spans more than five decades, is resolutely not one. Ask him, and he refers to himself as an artist working with photography. His relationship with the camera is complex, not just in his large-scale installations, collages, drawings, sculptures, artist books and printed fabrics, but in the singular, finely-tuned way he sees the world - Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s precision arrangements light up Wiels - via British Journal of Photography
PCC: The catalogue for our Rachid Taha Open Call & Exhibition is available here
PCC: The image prompt for next week’s creative challenge is available to download here
FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY - OLD & NEW
Robert Aloe
Italian bred and Canadian born, working as an analog collage artist under the name Club Lettera. The Club Lettera vision is the brainchild of Robert Aloe. Each work is an open letter reflecting concepts strictly of found items. The envelope is the root of all delivery of these messages and is consistent in each work. The envelope also is not seen as a piece of trash in most cases, but the messenger of this open letter to the viewer. The theme is usually derived by specific musical track and occasionally contain lyrics from those songs. The works are reflections that evoke everyday moments and can collide into tidal waves. Music can inspire emotions that are not always as intended by the artists. Club Lettera navigates musical expression to channel a more deliberate voice of the message. No digital content is the bottom line. Envelopes + Music + Analog Expression = Club Lettera. More here
Alain Zenatti
As the seasons go by, I create new themes, tell new stories, those that the photo inspires me, those that I feel in vibrations.
I dare the shock of textures, materials, I like the unexpected, all in softness and poetry without ever offending. My collages are messages, I give life to people, places or seasons forgotten but never disappeared. More here
Jessa Dupuis
Jessa Dupuis is a collage & mixed media artist living and working in the beautiful Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, Canada.
Jessa's work is a delicate balance of losing, winning, observing, wondering, letting go, and reclaiming. Merging art and design, abstraction and order, truth and fiction, her intention is to create pieces that allow people to laugh, cry, wonder, and connect with their own narratives in her visual storytelling. Jessa's heart favours the weird and fantastic bits of life and she hopes you enjoy the weird and wonderful magic that flows out of her lovely (and very messy) studio. More here
Sabine Korth
Today more than ever, expressive language communicates the “Zeitgeist” of our times. In From South to North, I bring together different cultural forms in order to stimulate reflection on this subject. Instead of employing a classical documentary method, I use a more creative approach that appeals directly to the viewer’s imagination. Combining photographs allows me to interweave and concentrate images. These are fictions that, like poetry, rely on metaphor and simile to achieve their effects. References, allusions, and analogies create a surreal atmosphere that leads the viewer to another reality—one that may be read only beyond the confines of the photo frame. I feel that a body of work is strongest and most honest when it challenges both the viewer and its creator to consider equally new perspectives and ideas.
Recently I have begun to explore the possibilities of the “digital darkroom.” To date, most work produced digitally has been commercial. Only recently has digitally-produced photography emerged as an art form. I am fascinated by the computer’s ability to synthesize—to weave disparate materials and into a single continuum. This enables the artist to explore in fresh ways both surrealist and post-modern perspectives. Although my working methods have radically altered, my interests remain the same. The content of my previous work has flowed naturally onto the screen and into the images before you. More here
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