Artists - 2015 Thessaloniki, Greece
 photo credits Mr. Jeff Jaspar
Rob Benders Regentag
---Netherlands--- www.robbenders.com At first glimpse my collage art is a colourful, conceptual trashy mash up of spectacular copy-cut-and-paste work. Composed out of pieces of my own photos, lyrics, drawings, tape, plastic, paper, paint, stamps, cloth, stickers and stuff I find around. Some influences: glam(rock), street-art, chocolate, fucked up media, claustrophobia, photography, new wave/post punk, porn, poetry and people. At second sight? |
Lane
---Greece--- www.lanecollage.gr I am one of those "self-taught" artists using collage as a medium. My collage work is a synthesis of colorful and different pieces of paper taken from magazines. Paper works like the most lively brush strokes. At first glance, those pieces might look irrelevant to each other, but when they come together, all those different shapes and patterns compose the final images. This is the most challenging part for me while making collage. |
Kai Holland
---Germany--- www.kaiholland.de First there was an inherited camera. Soon after making my first experiences with the hard reality of photojournalism during my studies (Photo and Film Design), i turned the focus on the already existing images to work with this amazing ressource. So i started collecting and selecting lots of material. This leads inevitably to my profession in a renowned international picture agency (akg-images). Working with more than 10 Million images day by day. I am sure you know what that means! I had no other choice... My main topics are still the ubiquitous human ability to create and destroy, and the other way round. For me, collages are the perfect technique to reflect these human characteristics. |
Simos Korexenidis
---Greece--- www.texni.org/image/item/40-kollaz-1 I was born in Drama (North Greece). I am a Film director & Scriptwriter (Stavrakos Cinema School). Can’t paint, even if I wanted to do so. I never dared to. One day I cut off a flower motif from a fabric material and stuck it on carton and this is how I started searching for glues, papers (every type and texture), colors (all of them) and materials. Professionally I found solace in cinematograph, but being such a time-consuming and collective work, I found in collage a small boat with me inside it, sailing alone, undisturbed through the oceans of art. It is a big pleasure for someone who creates, at the end of the day, at the assessment, he rejoice that with so little he could seize the day. |
Walter Paganuzzi
---Italy--- www.walterpaganuzzicollage.com I was born 22th June 1978 in Milan (Italy) and still live in Milan. I started making collages in 2012 and made my first exhibition in December 2014 in Milan. I am a member and creator of Italian Collagist collective " Oltre Collage ". My creative process is using free expression and imagination by creation of new forms and combinations decontextualizing images from reality to give new interpretations and meanings with my artworks. |
Markos Zouridakis
---Greece--- www.behance.net/markoszouridakis I am a graphic designer living and working in Athens. I believe talking much doesn't mean communication, that collecting old maps could actually guide to a treasure and that a zip bag can save your life. I enjoy working with collage because I see it as a visual reorganised memory on a piece of paper. Like a city, is the amount of many different and diverse parts and histories, which are rebuild and recollected in order to understand the whole. |
Tinca Veerman
---Netherlands--- www.tincaveerman.com In the collages I make, I’m consistently searching for a balance between reality and alienation. I’m always questioning myself where reality ends and imagination begins. I question myself about the personal book of information that we've got in our heads. Are we capable of receiving new constructions, or are we always hooking it up to the 'thing' we know from real life and try to connect with that? We redefine by watching what's real or not, and that takes time. Avoiding the intention of a made-up story, I'm forcing the viewer to slow down and unpack the construction, to test it’s veracity. I always liked the idea of composing an picture with images and words of different sources.It took me a while to discover that making collages was always a part of my way of expressings my thoughts and ideas. My collages are analog. When I work I like to move my scraps, torn out pages or blank paper over the tables in my studio. Most of the time I work in series. I make collages using my siccors as a brush and my scraps of paper as paint. |
Nikolaos A. Houtos
---Greece--- www.nhoutos.com I was born in Athens city (HELLAS) in 1962. I studied journalism & theater (scenography) 1981-1987. Joined art groups in Netherlands (1988-1990), in the field of Dada. Until 1991 I produced collages and created illustrations for magazines in Athens. Later I took courses in theology, iconography and fresco painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Athens, studied history of art at the Christie's. I continue my studies in Academia di Belle ARTI in Rome, dedicated a carefully study of a painting of the miniature of manuscript code of the Christian tradition for the X-XIII centuries.Today I am part of the avant quard icon art with his Icon Collages. I am a member of the Association Internationale des Arts Plastiques UNESCO & member of the Chamber of Fine Arts in Greece since 1999. I live and work between Athens & Rome. |
Demos Tsormpatzoglou
---Greece--- [email protected] Born in 1976. I live and work in Thessaloniki-Greece as an art conservator specifically on paper, parchment and old manuscripts. I tent to recycle and transform everything in art. Old furniture, clothes and other objects can all be usefull and with the appropriate treatment give birth to a piece of art. Because of work; paper and I "know each other" well and it has become my ascendent material on my collages. “Self-taught”, started creating collages for myself in 2007 until my first solo exhibition in 2010 in Thessaloniki with the title “Torn Edges”. Since then I participated in group exhibitions and had other solo ones in Athens and Thessaloniki. My last solo exhibition in Athens named “Apodyopsis” (the act of mentally undressing someone) deals with the contraction of the human body based on details of it as well as on faces and gaze. |
Rozenn Le Gall
---France--- www.rozennlegallcollages.com I have been making collages for many years as an obvious fact. It appeared to me that collage was a convenient way to express different artistics movements. The technique of collage allows a big creative freedom. To dig into the diversity of the images that surround us, to rebuilt a new world. To divert the images from their original context to recreate a new reality freed of all the conventions. Female characters, omnipresent in the world of the images, take a large place in my universe but I now tend to explore other topics. My style is rather simple. I only use a few elements to create one collage. My aim is not to tell big stories. I just try to suggest… I use scraps to create negative spaces in restraint compositions. I have this quote in my studio in front of my desk «Make it simple but significant»... I do my best to stick to it. |
Denis Schäfer
---Germany--- www.fotografienet.de My medium is the paper. I work in the classical manner: with a sharp blade, scissors and glue. The more pictures fit together in perspective, proportion and color, the more interesting it is for me to provide photos of historical books or contemporary magazines in a new context. Whether cut, glued or folded, the topics are always shapes, colors and surfaces. One special focus is the exploration of architecture and the urban, utopian space. |
Linda Werner
---Germany--- hitchhikeheart.com I do collages of paper and objects and like some kind of installation... for that I always collecting free stuff on the streets like books, magazins and all kind of things and give them a new home for a while and then try to let them go again. Traveling is the most inspired thing to me, so Im always have itchy feet and named my stuff hitchhikeheart. I love doing collages and combine them with my words and my photos for DIY zines or something. I create and travel light and that's the life for me. |
Una Gildea
---Ireland--- www.unagildea.com My collage work juxtaposes recognizable found images and transformed cutouts into pictorial narratives that invite the viewer to apply their own stories. Narratives at once oddly recognizable, yet uncomfortably odd; narratives often downright obscene, whilst pushing the chuckle-button; narratives that always aim to open the chute direct to the subconscious, that provoke an intuitive, not literal, sense, of what’s going on. I use the traditional cut and paste technique. In my animation work I use traditional stop motion, working with cut-outs. This is a natural extension of my passion for collage, a moving collage, as it were! I studied Painting, Drawing and Printmaking at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and animation at the University of the West of England; I also spent an amazing six months at the School of Visual Arts in New York. My work has been widely exhibited and my animation films have been shown at festivals around the world. My work is in the collections of Dublin City University and the Irish Contemporary Art Society. I now live and work in Dublin. |
Claudia Ghironi
---Italy--- [email protected] I was born in Sardinia and graduated from at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 2008. My artistic production is mainly geared on painting and photography, but painting remains my most important activity. My studies continue until today because I want to perfect my knowledge on the History of 'Art Italian and international, the Roman and Greek history, but my artistic projects lately have turned, as if by magic, to collage. As a kind of artistic innovation, I had the need to experience a new world of new techniques, new materials and new boundaries. As if to create a break with academic training, the collage becomes a show of imagination, which uses all forms and all colors to create situations and environments rich in talent and genius. This first series of collages are classified as environmental collages where you see interior reconstructed improbable, very playful and well balanced in terms of color. An other series, however, has as its main theme dream and this series has always been characterized by a good color balance and an atmosphere of true fantasy. For me collage is similar to a game, and in this game, you can create true works of art. |
Martin Došek
---Czech Republic--- www.martindosek.com My collages - this is just a play. I enjoy the lightness with which anything can be composed, at the same time creating stories that I mind. Tearing and cutting old newspapers and magazines into pieces and returning all these beautiful pictures to the world, to a new life and in new contexts. I work in an advertising agency and spend most of the time working with computer graphics programs, and yet I make my collages by hand, from old newspapers with scissors, glue, tape, pencil and paints. I have been doing it for over 25 years and it's still fun for me and a great fantasy adventure. |
Chris Rutter/Evelyn Bennett
---U.K--- rutterandbennett.com We have worked together for 20 years. Our practice is diverse, ranging from public sculpture, performance and sound to collage, drawing and print’. Collage has been found to be a medium that enhances the collaborative engagement between us. Using this process we produce collages that range in scale from small and intimate to a large-scale travelling and evolving collage installation. The imagery used is mostly generated from original drawings, scans and digitally manipulated photographs. Often objects and other materials might be incorporated into the collage. The subject matter is personal and derives from a desire to reflect and create a private world. |
Aline Helmcke
---Germany--- www.ahelmcke.com I am an artist and filmmaker. For me collage is the perfect medium to search for unexpected juxtapositions and similarities in form and content. I aim at creating compositions which reflect on complexity and convey the impression of ambivalence rather than conveying a coherent, straightforward message or a narrative content in an explicit way |
Emidio Bernardone
---Italy--- emidioishere.tumblr.com What I try to do is find a solution to communicate between different worlds, much work using scraps and bits of paper considered unnecessary, but in the end make the work more convincing and more "alive". As material mainly I use old magazines, postcards and all that I can buy in flea markets, glue and cutter. |
Dora Kleitsaki
---Greece--- [email protected] My love for painting made me study it. I usually work with charcoal and oil when i draw. But this time I borrowed the technique of collage as a means of expression. The part that I find interesting in this technique is how enigmatic and surrealistic can be the composition. The fast switching of cut colored images, that each one hides its own history, leαd me to the creation of a new image, with a new story like a butterfly effect. Parts of pictures separate and compose a new picture with another story effecting each other. |
Giorgos Chronis
---Greece--- zone363.tumblr.com I am a graphic designer, based in Rethymno Crete. I started as a graffiti artist and I am currently dedicating myself to the practice of collage. I like mixing many types of materials and various techniques like collage, graffiti, photography and graphic design. Inspired by the everyday life in all of its manifest: love, pain, relationships, death, violence, modern and earlier lifestyle, nature and music. The ordinary and the illogical are reflected in my artwork creating most of times a surreal atmosphere. |
Noir
---Germany--- noir.blogsport.eu I started with stencil art, which was based on digital collages. Currently i'm working on raw papercollages. As I did in stencil work I create mostly some kind of figures and characters. But in contrast of using stencils my collage characters are arise by it self and until the last minute I do not know what it becomes... friend or fiend or if they become part of the gang or not. I love to look at someone who's looking back after finishing collage. My characters are trash products of the advertising industry and affluent society. At first view the look messy, dickey and a bit filthy, but if you take a closer look you will realize, that they are friendly creatures with a touch of sadness and fearfulness. |
Timoleon Batsaouras
---Greece--- timwnaskt.wix.com/timwnas I started with decollage in posters in the streets of Athens. First images have been made by torn apart old papers. From <destruction>-decollage i went to <rebuilt>-collage. I make digital and analog collages, sometimes a mix of them. I like to use my own manipulated photos and old photos of my relatives. My collage serie is the story of a future society, in a project called : Monuments of New Religion. The elements of Sexuality,Religion and Human anatomy are very important to describe the dystopia with the use of strong symbols and phrases. Mechanical parts are lately often used so the collages have a second dimension. |
Diego Terros
---Colombia/U.S.A--- www.diegoterros.com I was born in 1989. I am a Brooklyn-based artist. My work explores territorial restructuring and the transformation of an individual through the play of layering, convergence, concealment, and exposure. My work is influenced by expressionism, symbolism, and post-punk music. |
Pilar Diamante
---Argentina--- www.diamantepilar.com I explore my own dilemmas about life, sexuality and the way human beings relate themselves and take that questions directly to the creation of my work. I find myself in a constant internal struggle which leads me to generate approaches to the pursuit of freedom in its purest form, generating a constant catharsis of it in each of my projects. |
Stefan Schneider
---Germany--- dasherrschneider.tumblr.com I am a graphic designer and a collage artist. My collages are very rarely digitally crafted. I love analogue work, the feeling of old paper in my hands, and creating new graphic formations from already existing materials. The paper fragments I use are older than I am. Using these kind of materials is like time traveling to me. I tear them from their surroundings and give them a new existence in my artworks. Whether they are old brochures, family pictures, schoolbooks, handwritten letters or magazines, I destroy them and simultaneously create something new. |
Danai Gkoni
---Greece--- thereisnolongeroutside.weebly.com I am an architect and digital artist. I have lived, studied and worked in Greece and the Netherlands. During my studies, I developed a keen interest on the urban condition. Having initially worked a lot with architectural collage, I started exploring a particular style of digital illustration since 2013. My collages narrate surreal and sometimes dystopic urban stories, mostly inspired by the city of Athens- but not only. As an architect, I am naturally interested in the dynamics of space and the built environment, the urban lifestyle and its aesthetics, the pleasure of urbanity as a space of togetherness and isolation at the same time-and those are the concepts I trie to explore in my collages. |
Cory W. Peeke
---U.S.A (Oregon)--- corypeeke.com I received my BFA in Fine Arts from Kendall College of Art and Design and my MFA from the University of Idaho. I have exhibited my work in numerous solo and group exhibits throughout the U.S. as well as group exhibits in Europe and South America. My work have been published in Mein schwules Auge 8 and 11 as well as the L’art du collage au Coeur de la creation, Creative Quarterly, and The Artist Catalogue among other publications. My works are included in the permanent collections of Eastern Oregon University, Lockhaven University, Whitman College and the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction. In addition to my studio practice I am a contributing writer for Kolag magazine. I serve as the Director of the Nightingale Gallery and Associate Professor of Art & Art History at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, Oregon. I am represented by Gallery I M A in Seattle, Washington. |
Clemence Vazard
---France--- cargocollective.com/clemencevazard Since my adolescence, I have been fascinated by paper, and the materials and media that use it. From around that age of 12, I have been using wallpaper, walls and doors as bases, over which I accumulated images I found in popular and cheap media such as magazines, posters, stickers, cards, etc. After graduating with a Masters’ degree in Arts and Culture Studies at the Sorbonne in 2009, I start working in various venues such as art galleries, concert venues, residences for artists, festivals, etc. As I develop my own artistic project - the collages - I participate in various events in Paris (in situ mural collages at L’International in 2011; exhibition of 15 collages at L’International in 2013, solo exhibition at Espace Demory in 2014) and over the world (collective exhibition at Central Feature Gallery in Albuquerque, selected work for Passion for Freedom Festival in London in 2014 and selected work for Festival Chromatic in Montreal in 2015). |
Tres Roemer
---U.S.A (N.Y)--- tresroemer.com Working with a high volume of material, particularly ephemera, is overwhelming because you task yourself with the creation of new rules. You are challenged artistically, particularly in collage, with the responsibility to honor and balance context and potential. Minimal techniques of manipulation bring forward deceivingly simple visual and conceptual considerations for the viewer to process. Juxtapositions initially confront stories and historical truths, asking are we materially or conceptually bound to decisions between preservation and new interpretation. I recently exhibited at Pratt Institute, LA Art Bookfair, and exhibit works internationally. |
John Hundt
---U.S.A (California)--- www.johnhundt.com My work tends to take on a sort of biographical approach in that I portray my subjects on a blank background, allowing the viewer to derive a storyline from the figure. My figures are often times evolutionary oddities lost in time. Trying to steer away from the "obvious" choices in collage can be time consuming in the thinking-before-gluing process. I have been working in collage for over twenty five years and have tried to keep my work as simple as possible, freeing the image of unnecessary clutter, almost like a scientific record. Just enough information for the viewer to make an informed decision. |
Domenico Goi
---Italy--- www.domenicogoi.com My collages are not perfect. Very often they come about abruptly - but whatever the final product, it must speak to me. Sometimes I begin by sticking together random pieces without having a precise idea in mind. I only pursue a specific theme when, after adding strips together, something appears and inspires me. Most of the time, however, I try to get my works to represent what I see or perceive - my own perspective. Everything to me is a collage and the chaos that results from combining the strips of paper is not that different from the way everyday life breaks down and comes back together, often independently of our will. This is why I believe a collage artist is the most faithful interpreter of reality - and why I adhere as much as possible to figurative arts, even if to shape them my own way. I have received no formal training. I engage with a form of art but I do not believe myself to be a true artist - and that it should not be up to me to call myself so. I would like to think of this as a great passion that guides me and gratifies me day by day. |
Raffaello Pacini
---Italy---www.disastrartcollages.wordpress.com I started with photography and I learned the shape and the composition of the image, imprinting it on film. However with the camera I couldn’t express myself fully. Cut and Paste has been a natural evolution and I did finally find my creative habitat. In 2011 was born my artistic alter-ego: DisastrART Collages. For me the collage is a kind of “therapy”: I cut, tear and engrave the paper to find myself. Cutouts represent my feeling, the fragments of my unconscious: each piece has its own importance and its symbolic meaning. A bit as if they were many gears which are part of a single large mechanism. I haven’t a creative mind: often my works born instinctively, inspired by music or a book. Rarely I plan a project, at the cost of waiting for a long time: I love watching my cutouts scattered on the table, getting to know them. I sieve all kinds of paper and this gives me great freedom of choice. Ultimately, I think that behind my representations there is simply the answer on how I see my life and myself, and above this is the best way to communicate what I can’t express with words. |
Smith Smith
---France--- smithartsmith.webs.com The first pieces of paper that I have collected and glued together were pictures of my idols, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix. I was 14 and I absolutely did not want to lose those pictures of them so I started to assemble them religiously. 20 years later I continue! It became a means of expression in itself, a playground for my life. I love the beauty of the absurd, humor, surrealism and provocation. I love working in the construction as well as the deconstruction of an image. When I approach the creation of a collage I have no specific technique, sometimes I know what I want, sometimes I listen to what the images tell, sometimes I cut hundreds of bits of paper and other times of the sets. But at the end of the story, I wish one thing, I want the both form and content... Collage = Freedom of Thought |
Vanessa Woods
---USA--- www.vanessawoods.com In my current body of work titled (In)visible, identities and bodies are tangled and draped with fabric. The fabric represents the beginning and end of the life cycle. I began this series during my first pregnancy, which also coincided with death of my grandfather and the deterioration of a close friend. I was thinking about the furling and unfurling of life and how mysterious and arbitrary it can be--how there is a constant sense of unknowing or invisibility. Later, when I gave birth to my son, my body was draped in blue hospital cloth. Concurrently, my grandfather passed away and his body was draped with cloth before being removed. I began to see the cloth as a metaphor for life and death. In this series, bodies emerge and disappear from fabric, as do histories and allegories. The fabric acts as a way to reconfigure and reimagine history, time and the body. |
Michael Church
---U.S.A (Arkansas)--- www.puredirtart.com The urgent connection between creation and destruction are on display within the pieces I've broken apart, then reconnected. It is in this space that I speak of the world around me, and to the voice within myself simultaneously. I have no desire to understand art. I do however have a strong desire to confront myself through artistic ventures. I like straight lines, crooked, angled shapes, color/shade combinations, abstract, thoughtful, emotional, provocative art and I dislike everything else. |
Mongobì Bibiana Mele
---Italy--- bibbiana-mele-mongobi.tumblr.com To the question: why doing analog collage? I answer "because I have many things to say, and collage helps me doing this. For me it's like having a parallel language than spoken or written. In addition, I am an artist without great founds and paper and cardboard abound in our society in the form of waste, so this material is very easily to find for free. I do like those animals who build their nest with the first things they find nearby. For me the collage is something that has to do with the essentialness of expressive needs. |
Silvio Severino
---Brazil--- silvioseverino.com I started in photography, but soon discovered the endless possibility of collage, and GIF animation. I create my work using found photography, print media and vintage books. I prefer to have no specific method of work and experimentation takes a good part my creative process. The roots of my collages and GIF animations are the popular and contemporary culture , collective unconscious and personal experiences. |
Luciano Mota
---Brazil--- [email protected] I am a Psychologist, Photographer and Collage Artist. As a Psychologist my collages reflect the unconscious and everything else that comes from the unknown side of the mind. My references come from surrealism and pop art. I like to show how our society lives now a days, showing the excess, vices, and everything about our behavior. My work also reflect the underground scene showing images from the skateboarding, musicians, tattoos, etc… |
Maria Clara Andrade
---Portugal--- [email protected] I studied anthropology but art is one of my passions. Self-taught, in 2013 I discovered the manual collage on paper that I have adopted as a hobby. I believe in recycling, my works are executed with paper cutouts, using magazines, newpapers, pictures and other media of cardboard or paper. Inspired in a beauty of an image, the colors and a sensuality of the image body that marges often with the surrounding nature. Like strong images with impact, especially by the color contrast. Taking as reference the female universe, through her work, seek to build scenarios with some drama, seeking to interpret emotions: passion, jealousy, separation, love, envy, irony, futility and lust are some the "moods" present in her paper constructions. Sometimes, subtly, you can find a political message but always as if it were a scene...after all life is a colorful and intense film!! |
Avi Yair
---Israel--- Over the past ten years, collage and assemblage have become the center of my artistic efforts. I have been working with readymade, primarily printed matter dealing with history and geography such as maps, old atlases and magazines, as well as easily accessible materials, such as tuna cans, paint brushes and figurines. This has given me much artistic freedom. Through the process of cutting, tearing, gluing, and reassembling, I assign these materials a new role, steering them away from their original purpose. Working in this way allows me to conduct intimate dialogues with the past and create new narratives, new worlds, new perspectives. Furthermore, I am able to explore, issues of immigration, conflict and identity, as they touch upon the individual's personal history as well as the events of the 20th century. |
Sean Phillips
---U.S.A (California)---www.society6.com/seanphillips I am a collage artist and graphic designer. I was born and raised in Corpus Christi, TX, but now I reside in Bakersfield, CA. I received a Bachelor of Science degree in graphic design from The Art Institute of Pittsburgh. While I often work in graphic design, my true passion and artistic drive lies in the art of collage. To me, collage is playful and dramatic, even surreal and absurd. My focus is on creating works that are, often times, controversial but hold a sense of dark beauty alongside a vintage sense of design. Working with torn paper, scissors, and glue, I work to create art that speaks out to viewer, stirring emotions and thoughts to ideas that seem to take their place on the backburner of society. |
Sarah Key
---Serbia--- skcollages.tumblr.com I explore collages by traditional cut -and-paste technique, using images from vintage books and magazines cutouts. Scissirs, glue, scraps, sticky fingers - that's what I love. The human body in every way, shape and size is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for me, and the element that is most recurring in my collage work. I love the dynamics and movement that body language brings into my work. Beside the human body and emotions - surrealism and psychology are the themes that I'm curious to explore in the future. Making collages, for me, represents each time a new journey and adventure - possibility of giving a new life to existing images and creating a new story. |
Zinga
---Tunisia--- [email protected] Following studies in management I spent several years in communication and marketing before taking the leap in 2012 to launch a career as an artist and musician, and now I am currently dedicating myself to the practice of collage. I work mainly with paper, mixing vintage and found images with modern compositions to create a work full of originality and narrative. My work reveals through visual contrasts the primal states of man and his fight against nature. Inspired by everyday news and the evolution process, I am questioning the nature of the human feelings, attaching a new meaning in an various chain of contrasts, highlighting my connection/disconnection with my environment. |
Wim Maes
---Belgium--- [email protected] Maes’s collages can be divided into different themes and appear on a regular basis in series. Absurd scenes become funy because the context is moving. Sometimes the title of the work itself is the joke. Maes clearly deals with his personal demons and processes hs own emotions. Identity is a recurrent topic. In these he touches the subtle boundary between what is commonly known as male or female. Furthermore his collages often question taboos or raise questions about religion. Throughout his work his love for the female body is revealed. Women take up a great spectrum in his collages, from being a delightful beauty to an erotic sex object. Whatever he depicts : the tone is Always relativistic and ludic, the effect poetic and subtle. December 2014, Indra Devriendt |
Andy Cluer
---U.K--- www.andycluer.info I am an England based artist. I make collages, installations, mixed media and video works about theories of the unconscious, decay in society & systems. I am currently exploring the theories of the unconscious in relation to modern society, investigating failed architectural structures and the rise of computational neuroscience. |
Iuri Kothe
---Brazil--- www.iuri.art.br I focus on surreal photomontages. The collage sessions are usually 4 to 8h straight, sometimes taking more days to finish one piece. I start flipping magazines or books (national geographics, dali, picasso, etc) just looking for images they call my attention, cut them out and try to make them fit together. |
Linden Eller
---U.S.A--- lindeneller.com My work is about memory - not just my own, but the process itself. Each piece is a combined portrait of my personal narrative and our collective memory. Each comes from a strong discipline of looking back and an instinct to keep things. What nurtures this cycle is a geographically diverse lifestyle. I gather materials along the way, so I favor the fragmentary elements of collage and their natural parallels to recollection. From all these layers, I gain a sense of self - that of the protagonist - a sort of romantic individualism I feel is waning in our time. I think of my work as field recordings from the mind. |
Kateřina Valentová
---Czech Republic--- [email protected] My first collage was born when I was ten. It was created from the catalog Quelle, who was in communist Czechoslovakia great treasure. I loved those new pictures that I managed to put together. Then followed a long period when I "collect material": Thousands of old photos from magazines, interesting papers, drawings. The right moment came in November 2013, I suddenly had a great need to put all those images together. A new world opened up to me, the beauty! Now I discover all the options paper collage offers including prints and frottage. |
Bene Rohlmann
---Germany--- www.benerohlmann.de When I am not drawing, printing or working on the computer, I make collages out of old books and magazines, glue and scissors. I like the smell, the feel and the look of this vintage material and I always prefer to work with my hands and real tools instead of Photoshop. I like the fact, that each piece or scrap is unique and cannot be rescaled, multiplied or transformed in any way. If something does not fit, I have to find another solution. And that is what I love about collage: the challenge of finding the perfect match and the satisfaction and happiness I feel, when I look at the finished piece. - In my collages I mostly create surreal landscapes and science fiction scenarios. I imagine them being photographs from another world or dimension |
Massimo Nota
---Italy--- www.notamax.it I was born in Rome in 1959. Graduate in illustration at the Istituto Europeo di Design, I work as graphic designer and artist in Rome. My most recent artist research aims to reach a point of equilibrium emerging by putting side by side different languages, both purely visual and abstractly textual. A gaze that overlooks the purely semantic research and that achieve to overcome visual conventions to reach an higher, different, alternative meaning. Reconciling two dissonances - two seemingly incompatible opposites - to lead (the subject) into a state of an art that is purely mental so that it overcomes the conceptual for an “esthétique intellective" which essentially is alive in pure thought |
Armand Brac
---France--- www.dailyphotomontage.tumblr.com I am a graphic designer living in Paris. I have been addicted to paper collage since I started working handmade about 2 years ago. I have a small studio filled with hundreds of books and all kind of papers, mainly collected in the streets. I usually let my feelings lead the creative process. I am mostly interested by abstraction and composition, even though there is most of the time some human figure in my collages." |
Katarina Radulovic Musabegovic (Radulanka Kacanski)
---Serbia--- [email protected] My collages generally show one theme. They are very colourful, something like pop art style. For them I'm using parts from newspapers and magazines, pieces of textiles and beads, and some parts of plants. Some of them are sprayed with nail polish. They contains lyrics, which are also the message. All my collages are handmade, tehnique cut/paste. My main tool for them are scissor and glue. |
