THE WEEKENDER 34 | 2024
Collage News & Inspiration
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
― Flannery O'Connor
The latest collage news and inspiration!
Enjoy!
Substack, this here newsletter platform, offers paid subscriptions, but this is no paywall. We believe in making art accessible to the widest possible audience, and our newsletter will remain free for anyone to read. Opting for a paid subscription is a way to support the collective and all we do. So is signing up to our Artist Directory. Think about it :)
NEWS
Halkin’s paintings and drawings from the mid to late 1960s depict brightly colored, fantastical sculptural objects composed of organic, abstract, and architectural forms set in an interior architectural space, with a hint of nature’s nearby presence. In the Art Institute exhibition, Halkin’s use of colored pencil, colored chalk, and black felt-tip pens, along with carbon transfer, collage, and erasure make his drawings stand apart from those of the other three artists. - The Singular Style of Chicago’s Art - via Hyperallergic
When you walk into the world of Mickalene Thomas, prepare to be dazzled. The 53-year-old artist uses rhinestones, collage, silkscreen and video to create pieces that celebrate women – proud, confident and powerful. - Artist Mickalene Thomas and her dream of making a difference - via CBS NEWS
The death knell has been rung for print media many times over in the past decades: thousands of local newspapers have shuttered, digital readership has shot up, and journalism has suffered a crisis. But if print really is dead, you wouldn’t know it from “Multiplicity: Blackness in American Collage,” a smart survey that features dozens of pieces that invest precious publications with new life. - A Major Survey of Black Collage Art Proves That Print Isn’t Dead - via ARTnews
Collage as a fine art medium has come of age during an opportune period—when our diverse field of input has grown exponentially and mainstream monoculture has, fortunately, collapsed. In some ways, the nature of collage is to disrupt and subsume other media and messages. Collage can challenge dominant narratives or offer fresh identities, formal feasts and dynamic stories. Of course, it can do many other things, as found in “Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage,” now on view at The Phillips Collection. But where did collage emerge, and what is it doing in the studio practice of Black artists in the U.S. today? - The Phillips Collection Looks at Blackness in Contemporary American Collage - via The Observer
The “you” in the text is Kate Zambreno, my friend and interlocutor for many years now, to whom the book is dedicated. Throughout Opacities, I quote from our letters, as well as my journals and notebooks of quotes from writers that have struck me. The result is a compact collage of ideas and voices. Collage was my method for putting it together: printing emails, photocopying journals, then cutting up the pieces and pasting them into a big notebook. - Sofia Samatar on Collage, Literary Community, and the Stunning Loneliness of Publishing - via LitHub
A recent show of Bertolt Brecht’s collages and ephemera suggested that he viewed all his work as forever in progress. - Pitiless, Restless Brecht - via The New York Review
PCC
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