THE WEEKENDER 43 | 2024
Collage News & Inspiration
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“It is said that children do not distinguish between living and inanimate objects; I believe they do. A child imparts a doll or a tin soldier with magical life breath. The artist animates his work as the child his toys”
― Patti Smith
The latest collage news and inspiration!
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NEWS
We are happy to announce COLLAGENOTES, our end of year open call & exhibition. It will run for six weeks from October 21 to November 30, 2024. The exhibition will take place at the beginning of December here in Paris (exact dates to be confirmed). You can find all our information on our website.
To answer the first questions that have already come in: Yes, you can submit as a group and send several postcards in one letter to save on postage. Yes, your collage note can be in your native language. Yes, even if you submit an analog piece by mail you will need to fill out a release form online. Yes, if your collage postcard fulfills all requirements, it will be part of the exhibition. And yes, it can be either portrait or landscape format.
If you have any other questions, please get in touch!
So, how does she recreate the traditional appearance today? The photographer reveals it’s with the aid of RAW files. “I create multiple virtual copies, and it’s interesting to see how the editing of the same image can be different over time,” she adds. The first step is to convert the image to black and white and work on basic edits of brightness and contrast. “What happens next depends on each specific frame,” she states. Then comes the stage of adding illustrations. In some of her portraits, intricate designs function as a crown for the model, giving her a royal yet delicate look. In another picture, she adds seeds, which resemble wings on the back of another model. “The combination of techniques of photography, illustration, and collage allows me to enhance its overall depth and narrative dimensions,” she explains. - How Eva Chupikova Crafts Magic and Meaning Through Minimalism - via The Phoblographer
Rubin’s work puts a grin on my face. I love the particular shapes and colors he fit into each composition, whether I’m getting lost in the deep canals of his large red construction, in the minutia of his teeny tiny collages, or find a gallery of candy pops smiling back at me. There’s also a pleasure to discovering his work through archival research, putting together the puzzle of his mostly overlooked career as I discover forgotten artworks in unexpected places. - The Daily Heller: Teaching Color, One Pigment at a Time - via Print
This fall, The Athenaeum joins forces with Collage Philadelphia to highlight contemporary local, national and international collage artists who are at the forefront of the medium. This two-day Symposium explores the past, present and future of collage as an art form. The ticket price covers IN-PERSON attendance for both days of the symposium, October 25 & 26. Exhibitions will run until the end of the year. - Cull, Cut, Craft: The Legacy and Practice of Collage - via THE ATHENÆUM OF PHILADELPHIA in collaboration with Collage Philadelphia
Transitioning from our CUT IT OUT bi-monthly art as therapy series, we are now hosting the PARIS COLLAGE COLLECTIVE VIRTUAL STUDIO SERIES: designed as always by our resident art therapist Julia Volonts of Art Therapy Lab and now in collaboration with the School of Visual Arts NYC Art Therapy Department.
It will allow you to try art therapy and experience collage as a therapeutic tool. It will run monthly(from September to May) with the second session happening this Sunday, October 27th.
Participation is as always free. Please email Julia at hello@arttherapy-lab.com to sign up.
Group exhibition of Explo3 at Maison des Babayagas in Montreul just until the end of the year. Visits with appointment only. More information here.
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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