THE WEEKENDER 45 | 2024
Collage News & Inspiration
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“Art is choosing to do something skilfully,
caring about the details,
bringing all of yourself
to make the finest work you can.
It is beyond ego, vanity, self-glorfification,
and need for approval.”
― Rick Rubin
The latest collage news and inspiration!
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NEWS
EXHIBITION: GLAMISTORIA - collage exhibition with works by Gerard Devos - November 21 to December 21, 2024
The artist who brought the lawsuit is Texas-based Deborah Roberts, who became famous and commercially successful with her collage-based portraits of Black children in various formats and styles. Her work is held in several prestigious U.S. museums and she currently has gallery representation in both the U.S. and the U.K. At auction, her work has achieved a record price of $275,000, set in 2021. - Artist Deborah Roberts Receives Mixed Ruling in Contentious Copyright Dispute - via artnet
Tomaselli took a clear position in this year’s presidential race and has used his New York Times collage series to annotate front-page world news in addition to selling his work to fundraise for sustainability initiatives. The artist said he often uses his practice to address “the chaos and the pathologies of the world,” but this work is different. - A New NYC Subway Art Installation Lends a Watchful Eye - via Hyperallergic
EXHIBITION: La Luz de Jesus Gallery’s exhibition Measure Twice Cut Once, an exhibition celebrating the varietal medium of collage, that opens this Friday, November 8th at 4633 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles. Over 50 artists fill the walls and floors of the gallery with fun and unusual works. - Measure Twice Cut Once: A Lowbrow Collage Show @ La Luz de Jesus - via Juxtapoz
Curated by Julien Frydman, Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach’s booth at Paris Photo highlights three artists with innovative practices using collage. - Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach at Paris Photo - via ART PLUGGED
“When I incorporate the figure, rather than having a person pose for me, I prefer to watch someone moving spontaneously. When I approach a new subject, I make a lot of gestural drawings and representations of the space in my sketchbook. I construct my collages directly from the drawings,” she said. “The collage, while not a copy of the drawing directly, is informed by it and cultivates its vital spark. In this game of telephone, absent from the subject, color becomes exaggerated and specificity varies.” - Thyen-Clark featuring work of Katie Knoeringer and Maria Del Pilar Arrieta - via Dubois County
After nearly a decade as an informal artist collective, the Twin Cities Collage Collective (TCCC) is displaying its first public exhibition at Boiler Room Coffee in the Stevens Square neighborhood of Minneapolis. - Twin Cities Collage Collective, ‘Collage is for everyone’ - via The Minnesota Daily
A new exhibition is on display at the South Cariboo Business Centre in the Showcase Gallery featuring pieces of collage and mixed media art. - Sheryl Fremlin exhibits mixed media collage art at Showcase Gallery - via 100 Mile Free Press
“It appears that Ernst, still in Germany at that stage, created the images first: twenty-one collages composed of engravings cut out of nineteenth-century magazines and catalogues,” writes Daisy Sainsbury at The Public Domain Review. Unlike in the Dada works known at the time, “the artist is careful to disguise the images’ composite nature. He blends each section into a seamless, coherent whole.” - Discover Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s Still-Bizarre Proto-Surrealist Book Les Malheurs des immortels (1922) - via Open Culture
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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 2025 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.
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