THE WEEKENDER 33 | 2024
Collage News & Inspiration
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring.”
― Hugh MacLeod
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NEWS
Her style is unlike any other photojournalist. It’s vibrant, it’s abstract, it’s confrontational, and it’s born in part by her determination to invert conventional Western depictions of poverty and pain. Her colorful collages speak to the vitality and creativity of water-poor communities who are forced to innovate to meet their most basic needs. - In Sierra Leone, Water Really Is Life - via Atmos
It is a fascination she has explored for the Icelandic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024, in an exhibition titled ‘That’s a Very Large Number - A Commerzbau’, which also draws inspiration from ‘Merzbau’, German Dada artist Kurt Schwitters’ method of creating immersive collages from found materials. In works crafted from plastic toys and objects, and an installation made from a recycled floor panel from the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, Birgisdóttir uncovers capitalism in all its forms. Here, she reveals the process behind her work. - ‘Everything human-made is of interest to me’: Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir in Venice - via Wallpaper
Ballroom Marfa has announced the upcoming Fall 2024 exhibition from Marfa artist Julie Speed, The Suburbs of Eden, opening Friday, September 20, 2024. The exhibition brings together paintings, collages and gouaches from Julie Speed created over multiple decades. - Artist Julie Speed to show at Ballroom Marfa - via The Big Bend Sentinel
The technique is called frottage—from the French verb frotter, meaning “to rub”—and from 1925 to 1926 it was Ernst’s focus as he created new worlds using materials like leaves and their veins, bark, ragged edges of linen, netting, and most anything at hand with an intriguing texture. It culminated in his publication of Natural History, a collection of 34 rubbings. - Eureka: The Technique Max Ernst Invented to Harness His Inner Eye. Ernst began with collage in the 1910s before moving onto frottage and grattage. - via artnet
From neighborhood highlights to presidential candidates to the total solar eclipse event this past April, Johanna Goodman’s lighthearted collages highlight vital issues, current events, and pivotal personalities. Foregrounding city scenes, iconic architecture, or vivid patterns, the figures in her compositions confidently embody their surroundings and concerns. - Johanna Goodman’s Larger-than-Life Collaged Figures Embody Strength and Resilience - via Colossal
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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