Artists - 2017 Milan, Italy
Lane
---Greece--- www.lanecollage.gr My collage work is a synthesis of colorful and different magazine clippings. 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. Paper works like the most lively brush strokes. Portraits have always been my favorite subject but right now I am making collage based on street view photos |
Eugenia Conde
---Argentina--- eugeniacondef.com The greatness of collage for me is its process: choosing, discarding, combining, cutting, tearing... all in order to create one unique piece different from the isolated bits that help to create it. Matter, textures, stiches and scraps help me convey (beautiful) imperfection. I think we are imperfect, a living process. Scattered pieces that we combine in a certain way. We have a sense of ourselves, we build ourselves, we hide or disguise ourselves... all in attempt to fit in. Beautiful monsters in a way. |
Walter Paganuzzi
---Italy--- www.walterpaganuzzicollage.com I was born on 22th June 1978 in Milan (Italy) and still live in Milan. The passion for the collage goes back about five years ago, when encountering Linda Pelati I am struck by an art that requires no technical requirements to express creativity. I am the founder of the Italian collective of artists collage "Oltre Collage" (collective founded in 2014) and from which it is spilled from in April 2016 and founded the international collective of artists collage "GLI INFORMALI" with whom currently my works. I currently had a columnist about collage for italian's art magazine Rapsodia - Arts and Literature Magazine |
Rachael Jablo
---U.S.A--- www.rjablo.com I was born in 1975, I am an American photographer and collage artist in Berlin, Germany. My photo collage work deals with deconstruction, beauty, nature and violence. In 2013 I published My days of losing words with Kehrer Verlag; it has been featured on Slate, Lenscratch, and NPR among other places. My work has been exhibited widely across the US, with solo exhibitions at George Lawson Gallery and UCLA in California. My work has also been featured at the Museum für Photographie in Braunschweig, Germany, SFCamerawork Gallery, and Brandeis University. |
Jerome Bertrand
---Canada--- www.instagram.com/jeromebertrandphoto Collage allows me to make works that are both planned and intuitive. It is a media that is tactile. I will respond to images and the assemblage will create a new story. The different layers speak a language that is universal but also personal to each viewer. Since we all have our own references, the association of pictures can be read in a indefinite number of ways. My inspiration will be triggered by colors, shapes, content and meaning. I often work on many collages at the same time and then focus on one particular piece for the finishing touches. |
dasherrschneider
---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. |
Agst'n
---Argentina--- www.agstnartist.com Argentine´s Collagista residing in Madrid. In his works the color predominancy, the simbols and the dramatism are the higligths. Agst'n selects arts or advertisment images and combines the forms with symbols and stages reconstructing the story way and giving new meaning to the image. His works shows the simbiosis that takes place between both faces of the actual life: the superficially aesthetic and the deeply dramatic . |
 photo credit ©alberta cuccia
Francesca Belgiojoso
---Italy--- www.ottaviahiddenart.com I am a psychotherapist and my artistic research intertwins my knowledge of the unconscious to my passion for photography and the iconography of the past. Using fragments of different kind of images, I create an ambiguost yet suggesting shape that allows the beholder to see what he wants in the bigger picture before digging into the inner details of the figure. |
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. |
SCHRIECK
---Belgium--- www.schrieck.fr I did my first collage in 94 during my ending year of Political Sciences study at the University of Brussels. I've never stopped since. After a short living jump in Montreal (Québec), I settled down in France in 2006, deep in the french Alps mountains, as a graphic designer. I made my first collage exhibition in Annecy in 2008. In 2015, the National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC) awarded and featured one of my collage work. My collage are mostly the result of happy accidents, sometimes of sweet collaboration with my young kids. But mainly I love to explore techniques, shapes, styles and colours I never experienced before. I'm addicted to the surprise of the final glue! |
TeatroBalocco
---Italy--- www.behance.net/TeatroBalocco TeatroBalocco was born in Turin from an idea of Maura Esposito and Silvia Testa in 2008, along Po river banks. Both degreed at Academy of Fine Arts, specialized in Graphic, Scenography and in New Media, we start up our art project between Turin, Milan and Sardinia, our home island. Our difficulty of being targeted made our research focused on different medias such as images, collages, videos and writing. TeatroBalocco Publishing was born from the common passion for books in each component of them, and the need to join our imaginaries, giving them a home on paper where images and words can meet and contaminate each others.The research of images for collages, the poetry and the language, the paper choice and the intention to realize all the book production process, from the writing, to the illustrations till the binding, responds to the desire to create and object, a book, accurate in each aspects, not only to read, but to observe, to thumb, to touch as an art object. |
Holger Becker
---Germany--- www.holgerbecker.com Collage is to me more (but not less) than just a product at the end of a process, the picture. It is a research. It makes pictures using pictures. The whole process around making Collage is a journey: a room, a table, the paper, the cutter, the glue…collecting, finding patterns…groups…archives of material…finding old books and magazines…finding fragments…cutting, tearing, coincidence, gluing, the hand of chance, memory, layering, selecting, remembering, combining, decision…searching…surprising myself…gluing. I am a visual artist who studied fine arts in Hamburg. At the moment, I live in Nuremberg, Germany. Coming from painting, I have focused on analogue paper collage since 2014. One day in the summer after I decided to work only with Collage, I found two metres of picture books from the 1970s, by chance, on the street. From that day on, I finally fell in love with Collage! There are series: portraits, landscapes, the “Air Plane Head” series, the “Pictures for Places” series, and others. There are also some very large Collage tapestries on walls. |
Silvio Severino
---Brazil--- www.ingluewetrust.com I am a contemporary photographer, collage, and gif artist. I work in both analog and digital formats, which puts me in a unique creative position, whereby I can cross and recross the traditional and the contemporary. I am searching for new values, new visual languages that will allow me to incorporate photography, collage, and animation in new formats. With my work, photography often becomes collage, with collage often becoming animated gif. It is an exciting new frontier in contemporary art for which I am at the forefront. I understand the technology of gifs, glitches, and loops, the bedrock of contemporary gif animation and video art. I find myself in an enviable position whereby I can use these technologies to expand my work. I am interested in exploring a range of contemporary issues through both collage and gif animation. From nature and the urban, to consumerism and the idealisation of beauty and sexuality, from art versus capitalism, to the banality of publicity and celebrity. I was born and raised in Brazil, but have spent the last fifteen years in Europe, I now live in Cork , Ireland |
Carmen Alvar Beltrán
---Spain--- www.cargocollective.com/carmenalvar I have a degree in Fine Arts, a Master in Artistic Production and hascompleted my PhD research, whose doctoral thesis entitled “Archaeology of found objects”centered on found objects which include the history of collage and the avant-gardes movements. The visual conclusions of this research have been exhibited at two Spanish museums. My work has been shown in different Spanish cities such as Madrid, Valencia, Alicante, Barcelona, Badajoz and Córdoba. I belong to the collage collective La Recortada who focuses their work on feminism, gender and forgotten women. My work deals with subjects about social problematics such as climate change or how History has forgotten women systematically. The claim "make memory" in these fields is intended to arouse the curiosity of those who approach my collages and not only the esthetically pleasing part but also to make them think of the invented worlds I create with utopian characters who ride between the colors as if they were possible. All this arises from my necessity of a social and a cultural change that’ll bring us closer to nature from a respectful and admiring point of view to arrive to freedom. |
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, collage is the perfect technique to reflect these human characteristics. |
Denis Kollasch
---Germany--- www.fotografienet.de I was born in 1973 in Germany and live in Berlin. I am particularly concerned with depth of field and perspectives in the development of my collage and folded paperwork. I want to tell stories. The use of old illustrations from magazines and homemade photographs helps me to express myself. I also like paper as a material: it is silent, does not smell and it can be edited in a variety of ways, including tearing, cutting, and folding. It is just wonderful. It is like a universe, as I give myself lots of time for experimentation and can try many new things. Like in my collages of architecture or in my folded paperworks: i love to play with the understanding of shape and composition. |
Tinca Veerman
---The Netherlands--- www.tincaveerman.com Making collages reminds me of working on my stamp collection when I was young. Instead of organizing my stamps in the order of countries I made small collections of stamps that seem to fit together because of their atmosphere. After a while I would mess things up and would refresh my altar of global stamps. In a way I am still working this way, according to this ritual. When I am working now I question myself about the personal book with information we've got in ourheads. Are we capable of receiving new constructions or are we always hooking it up to the “thing” we knowfrom real life and try to connect with it? We redefine by watching what's real or not and that takes time. Avoiding the intention of a made-up story I am adding elements that under mine our ability to make sense of the reality on view. Forcing the viewer to slow down and unpack the construction to test itʼs veracity. |
Marta Janik
---Poland--- planetmarta.com I call myself Lady Paper. Lady Paper loves papers. I collect papers. Even the ugliest one can be a treasure for me because I love to give new meaning to things. That is why I create paper worlds. I see the world as a Paper Comedy. In my works, you can see different kinds of characters. There is a couple for example, which is joined forever because they are made out of one locomotive. There is even God who observes what he did and is happy! There is a guy who wears a butterfly tie, he just wants to be beautiful, not rich. You can see funny birds which got stuck inside trumpets. They are ready to play a concert! There are strange buildings which disguise themselves as people. There are fish which came out of a... pipe. There is a man who smokes colourful flowers and... mushroom people who seem to be on a special mission. I was born in Poland, now live in Berlin, however I spend most of the time on my planet. |
Niko Vartiainen
---Finland--- www.nikovartiainen.com I'm a mixed media collage artist living and working in Turku, Finland. My favourite thing to do is create basic cut and paste collages on differently build backgrounds, for example I think lately I have been more excited about crafting, painting and smudging the background than the actual collage on top of it. I love how the different medias add contrast, structure and character to work. Usually in my works there is human figure/figures and I try to take the original setting and show the other aspects what could be the actual story. Like if you see person smiling, that doesn't mean she/he is happy, there is always a defining story behind everything. Beside doing collage art, I also runs Cults of life -collage publication and Toombes.com -art blog. |
Bene Rohlmann
---Germany--- www.benerohlmann.de I am a full time artist and illustrator, based in Berlin. When I am not drawing or working on commissioned jobs, I make collages out of old books and magazines, glue and scissors. I like the smell, the feel and the look of vintage material and I always prefer working with my hands and tools instead of Photoshop. I like the fact, that each piece or scrap is unique and cannot be rescaled or multiplied. 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 I feel, when I look at the finished piece. - In my collages I mostly create surreal landscapes and science fiction scenarios, but I have started experimenting with more abstract techniques as well. |
Anna Sandalaki
---Greece--- annasandalaki.wordpress.com A collage is kind of a mirror (and is, maybe, a fragmented mirror). The visual reflection of our feelings, thoughts, concerns, memories and dreams. Each one of us can read different realities or stories “on” this boundless and magic looking glass. I enjoy creating visuals in black and white and visuals from a surrealist point of view, through which I can explore the potential of the inevitable and worthwhile alternation of the bright and dark side of ourselves. The materials used in my collages are mainly paper from second-hand books, vintage or recent magazines, as well as spray paint. Other media also, plus stencil techniques for the envisaged composition. Main influences and sources of inspiration are people, indie rock, ambient music, swing, photography, nature, doubt, anxiety and dark chocolate. I have studied Social Policy & Social Anthropology in Athens, but ventured into collage art. Right now I'm based in Chania, Greece." |
Ermanno Cavaliere aka GOGE
---Italy--- ermannocavaliere.tumblr.com I was born in the 1985 in Pagani (SA) Italy. I studied in Naples and I got the master degree in Architecture at the University of Federico II. Today I’m an architect and I live and work in Turin. During my studies I loved photography and art, particularly the Dada movement. I make collage since 2010. In 2011 I founded a web magazine about the art collage called: (de)TAGLIO_magazine, where many international collage artists participated producing their artworks with a shared theme for each issue. With my collage I try to “search of the invisible”. It’s an opportunity to revive and rediscover the uniqueness of everyday things. Focusing on banality can be interesting for the discovery of a new sense of things. It’s about playing with the visual power of the single element and with the strength of the whole. My collage are composed by everyday items such as newspapers, magazine, reclame, everythings of daily use, they can have new ways of life and communication combined together. The goal is to put in crisis the logical combination of elements attracting interest and perhaps some questions. I work with signs of timeW that draws new fields of creativity to go, I like to use the signs of time that I find in dirty old paper, I’m fascinated by how the time transforms the things. |
Charalampos Potzidis
---Greece--- charpotz.tumblr.com I hold a diploma on Architectural Engineering. I maintain an inexhaustible interest in visual arts as well as a great depth of imagination. I was introduced into collage art in an attempt to visualize unconventional architectural ideas. Since then, I started experimenting on creating images concerning art movements, hidden meanings and information that derives from my everyday life. My creative activity draws inspiration mainly from nature, senses and sentiments, sex, pop culture, ancient Greek mythology and spontaneous obsessions. My intention is to intrigue, make fun of modern culture and raise questions. There is no limit on materials. Occasionally is about more than one media combination. While having some key-identity ideas and elements, I am locating myself in the experimentation process of defining my artistic dialect. I am moving on both sides of the same path. The one depicts dreamy compositions, contemporary youth, innocence (lost?), experiencing life and the "how-I-call-it" Materialization Journey. The other side is rather instinctive, ‘by sight’ superficial, raw, vain and glossy. This is where I question issues of sexuality, make fun of the hyper sexualized culture, compose fashion elements and “deculpabilising” pleasures. This is more than just an image creation. It is rather a visual way to express fantasies and process some question marks. |
Simone Karl
---Germany--- www.simoneka.com In my artworks I create complex and surreal situations in which alienated, often faceless people meet organic structures and mythological symbolism. The collages move from a severe colorlessness to an explosive color noise. The pictures deal with different facets of human life. Psychological developments and the depth of the mind are just as present as the stormy and uncontrolled discharge of the physical. Here the images play between the extremes: from tender femininity to penetrating aggressiveness. Heaven and hell. 
Moni Wilk
---Poland--- www.facebook.com/MonWilk I am an art historian collage artist based in UK. I am using the medium of hand-cut paper collage. I work with the interaction between color, and a combination of different materials composed in my own compositions. I have exhibited in Poland, Norway, Spain and Holland. My work has appeared in a number of publications including: Shelter zine, GetInspired, Cults of Life, Warsawholic and in the Collage Collective Co book- 'Annual 2015'. |
Lida Driva
---Greece--- www.lidadriva.com I am an architect based in London. Throughout my studies, I have been engaged with the understanding of emergent territorial formations, the exploration of uncanny spaces and I have always been interested in the multidisciplinary approach of architecture and its multiple reflection on art. Along with architecture I started exploring photography, graphic design and collage art as well. After working a lot on architectural collages I started experimenting more with digital collage as a way of creating more conceptual and atmospheric narratives. My stories are usually inspired by the urban character of contemporary cities, by nature as an opposition to this urbanism and often have psychogeographical, surrealistic and symbolic references. My collage images are characterised by a dreamy, poetic essence that is often combined with a slight melancholic, nostalgic feeling. |
Demos Tsormpatzoglou
---Greece--- www.facebook.com/demos.tsormpatzoglou.collage Born in 1976. I live and work in Athens-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. |
Una Gildea
---Ireland--- www.unagildea.com I love the challenge and the excitement of creating something new from that which already has its meaning, its context; leafing through old books and magazines, the connections made, the associations formed, the thought processes involved are all intuitive, happening in the subconscious. Abstraction of form and transformation of imagery are driving forces behind my collage work. My work is analog. I also work in animation using traditional stop motion, working with cut-outs. This is a natural extension of my passion for collage, a moving collage, as it were! My work has been widely exhibited and my animation films have been shown at festivals internationally. |
Paolo Cabrini
---Italy--- pratichedelloyaje.wordpress.com Paolo Cabrini, born in Florence in 1967, xylographer and typographer. I have dedicated myself to Visual Poetry, Collage and Mail-Art for 25 years. In 2007 I created an editorial trademark,Practiche dello Yajè, publishing small editions, Fanzine, including "Il Coazon", and especially letterpress posters with ironic and provocative content. I have published art books with publishing houses: Pulcinoelefante (Osnago), Il ragazzo Innocuo (Milan) and not least an edition dedicated to Dino Campana for I quaderni di Orfeo (Merate). I have facilitated workshops for Milano PAC and various public libraries and I have recently become a member of the Decollage de 'Pataphisique in Milan. |
Stephen Tierney
---Australia--- www.stevetierneycollage.com I have worked in mixed media art techniques and collage for around 20 years. I graduated from Sydney Graphics College, Australia in 1997. My artworks conjure small floating worlds where figures and faces are dissected by text and everyday objects. A critique of social behaviour, and explorations of my personal thoughts and experiences inform my work. My most recent collages have a strong cinematic quality, comparable to Soviet film posters of the 1920’s. I love when accidents happen in creating an artwork. The way that you never really know what the final piece will look like until that one image is placed perfectly over another, and it all just fits together like it was meant to be. |
Avi Yair
---Israel--- For over ten years, collage and assemblage have been a major part of my artistic efforts, which encompass engravings and sculpture as well. I have always been attracted to 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 in all mediums. 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, which continue to fascinate me. |
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 by shaping 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. |
Lydia Mojzis (klebenlebeneben)
---Germany--- klebenlebeneben.tumblr.com Attaching snippets to a background means making a decision that I am entirely convinced of. Deciding on one final arrangement parallels the act of entering some of irreversible commitment. I need a reassuring feeling of bonding to arise. Every composition emerges from an immense range of image material. Fabrics and the fall of their fold, individual female body parts, landscapes and geometrical forms are the motives I make use of. Eventually I encounter an unforeseen relation between utterly different pieces of the everyday clutter around me. However it’s not their subject matter but rather the mere formal-aesthetic connection between them in which I see my subjective, at times quite selfironic view of life reflected. It’s simplicity that matters to me. I aim for bringing things down to a common denominator. By montaging cut-outs of my surrounding world I feel enabled to construct a more consistent image of reality.“ I live and work as artist and art therapist in Berlin. I publishe my collages under the alias of klebenlebeneben. |
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. |
Aline Helmcke
---Germany--- www.ahelmcke.com I am a Berlin based artist and animator and generally love the direct, hands-on feel of working with analoge techniques – be it drawing, collage or animation. My approach to collage is rather conceptual. Conveying a straightforward message or an explicit narrative content is not what I am primarily interested in. Rather, I search for forms and compositions that are ambivalent, irritating and sometimes even absurd. |
Tanja Ulbrich
---Canada--- www.tanjaulbrich.com BA in Archaeology, MA in Anthropology, my field of study focused on gender roles among indigeneous populations of Mexico. I am a trained gestalt art therapist, and community mediator currently living and working in Madrid, Spain. I center my creations on psychological, cultural and social phenomena such as gender roles, migration and memory. Cofounder of Gli Informali International Collage Collective and member of the Feminist Collage collective La Recortada. I have exhibited my work at individual and collective exhibitions in Spain, Netherlands, Italy, and United Kingdom as well as in print publications in Italy and Germany. Defense mechanisms, internalized misogyny and how those ideas are set in our memories and traditions are a reaccuring theme in my work. I seek to confront private memories and the introjected negative thought processes that are past on from generation to generation, and that affect our self confidence and the roles we play in society. My collages are created with images that I seek out as surrogates that convey gestures or physical expression that lead the public to those hidden feelings. The images tell a story. My use of uneven cutting techniques, ripping and childish pencil marks, are all elements that symbolise the nature of introjected thoughts and the process of socialization throughout our lives. |
Jonathen Tegelaars
---Italy--- jonathantegelaars.tumblr.com I was born and raised in Florence, from dutch father and french mother. I studied Design at Laba (libera accademia di belle arti), where I began experimenting with collages with painted paper. I still live in florence where i currently work in my studio in via dell ardiglione. My work is prompted by the strong effect that images have on me. I mean images in the widest possible sense, to wit, the immense and total visual wealth of this world. I search for expression through various techniques. By changing one's approach and method, and then tools and materials it is possible to bring about different outcomes, to design otherwise. These multiple conceptions and idioms are necessary in the attempt to get closer to a truth that is less partial, a truth understood via various paths and expressed in a many-sided way. My work is centred in the process of the formulation of images rather than in the final image. It is a complex process that starts from a nucleus of suggestions, of sources, which, through their interactions, produce new results. It is a concatenation of choices and actions, with the elements in play being constantly questioned, in a circular process. Through the physical contact with the materials I gain further and immediate knowledge of the object, and through this feedback I succeed in leaving the mark of my vitality. I love to rephrase: whether playfully, or in order to surprise, or so as to expand the parameters of what is possible. : |
Maruša Štibelj
---Slovenia--- www.marusastibelj.com I am a collage artist born in 1986 (Kranj, Slovenia). After I graduated in Art education, I went exploring movie industry, then I »pretended« to be a photographer and on the way also wrote some lines and thoughts. But somewhere in the middle I found my passion in collage. Putting things together became my mission, especially old things that are lost in the closet and long forgotten. In old magazines, newspapers, napkins and colored paper I look for inspiration which I transform into a new story with a current disguise. I like to collect memories and prevent them from sinking. From 2015 I am a member of Slovenian fine art society. |
Massimo Nota (notamax)
---Italy--- www.notamax.it Graduate in illustration at the Istituto Europeo di Design, he works 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. |
Rozenn Le Gall
---France--- www.rozennlegallcollages.com For many years, I have been making handmade collages. I studied History of Art and it appeared to me that collage was a convenient way to express different artistic movements. The technique of collage allows for a lot creative freedom. We can to dig into the diversity of the images that surround us to rebuild a new world; divert images from their original context to recreate a new reality freed from all conventions. I see the artistic process of collage as both a physical and intellectual experiment. To make a collage means to be in contact with different kinds of paper: the glossy texture of luxurious magazines, the stiffness of cardboard, the softness of old pages, the peculiar smell of old paper. You can choose to carefully cut and trim an element or on the contrary, to furiously tear out a whole page. The art of assemblage! Female characters, omnipresent in the world of the images, have held a large place in my universe but I now tend to explore other topics. |
Giulia Cabassi
---Italy--- www.behance.net/giuliacabassi My collage includes visions who explores the absurd and reveal a journey trough fantastic plateau and extraordinary characters. The dreamlike and unreal strength of the descriptions reflects the need to extract the image from its logical sense of belonging. For this reason, cropping and de-contextualisation of the photographic details of the images amplifies their perception. I use mostly vintage magazines that arrived to me trough intricate paths, coincidences and deviations: I had researched and collected them to give them a second life. The tone of the photographs is unrivalled, the paper on which they are printed and the chromatic saturation are a time-image synthesis themselves, underlined by the relation created with my handmade paper (the paper I usually use for fix the collage). The papers are intensified and one becomes the extension of the others in a composition enriched by the use of natural colours who I learned to extract from berries, barks, blooms. |
Alison Kurke
---U.S.A--- www.flickr.com/photos/kurberry My delight in cutting things out and sticking them down is a natural development from printmaking and bookmaking. It's been just a few years since I have largely migrated to collage from both of those pursuits. In one of my former careers, as an auctioneer, I came across wonderful vintage ephemera and I continue to hunt it down in improbable places. Paper, of all types, has always been a passion. Ever grateful for happy accidents, I strive to create an image that I personally like and that rewards more than just a cursory glance. Simplicity is not my way. Balance, dynamism, harmony - those are good design concepts that I hope usually inform my work when it succeeds. Humor too. In terms of "style": not minimalist, not random, not mysterious, not cinematic, not suggestive, not titillating, not National Geographic. Despite my growing introversion, I take part in Los Dias Contados with the delightful Collage es Mafia, and am a member of Gli Informali. The Collage Collective Annual of 2016 included my collages, and I am always open to real-world collaborations. |
Dorothee Mesander
---The Netherlands--- I am a Greece base Dutch collage artist. The medium I am passionate about to visualize my imaginary world, is collage. I make paper story scenes, like still movie frames. I reassemble and position the pieces until my story will find a final, glued scene. The story continues in my mind and it is not seldom that this results in a series of connected pieces. I don’t work in one particular style partly due to the fact that I use new and old paper from any imaginable source, nothing excluded. Also my mood, instant inspiration or need to express something at that moment, is decisive for that particular collage. The strength I see in a piece is more important to me that it’s source (random or from my own collection, still a surprise opening the drawers!) or its age. I get inspired by walking around cities during the quiet hours, its flea-markets and old bookstores, architecture, b/w movies, old cars (Cadillacs), visiting museums of contemporary art, relationships, ads in vintage magazines, my daughter who is a fashion designer. |
Pasquale de Sensi
---Italy--- pasqualedesensi.tumblr.com What I like about collage is the fact that it works as an immediate medium, able to give access to a more fluid and not prectictable approach to the construction of the image. I want my collages to look like a rebus whose solution belongs to a forgotten language. Here we can find the conjunction of opposing forces, the chance and the organization of it, the instinct and the control, but always under the light of a playful operation, tinged with irony. |
Dominik Bönisch
---Germany--- www.instagram.com/dominikboenisch Based on my photographic studies, I focus on creating images, which at first glance, appear to be photography. Through my analogue collage, created using vintage books and used magazines, I try to tell surreal or humorous stories. I enjoy seeing new opportunities in old images and thus, making collage is the perfect media for me to narrate. Collage also allows me to pursue a new skill, opening up a world of possibility. |
Phil Carney
---U.K--- [email protected] I am heavily influenced by cinema, in particular the film noir genre, from the stark and moody lighting to the running themes of desire, loss, fate and isolation that grips the characters in their environments, sultry and dangerous for me these characters are beautiful monsters. |
Claudia Retamal Schmidt
---Chile--- claudiaretamal-pinturas.blogspot.gr My work in hand made collage is originally based on spontaneity , synchronize and chance of the moment , inspired on the environment, color , contingency and humor . I try to maintain an archetypal associationist in my composition under an objective eye finally . |
Christine Voelk
---Germany--- www.facebook.com/ChristineVoelkCollages Like flipping through a diary some days my consciousness reveals a variety of moods. Most of the moods that really touch me – no matter whether they are from the past or present – are multi-faceted and contradictory and are very difficult to describe in words. I am simply not a diarist, so I express these moods in collages. By combining existing images that already represent a mood I compose a mosaic of the different facets of my specific mood until the collage expresses what I want to say. I use only original prints – no digital pictures – and I always try to insert a 3D effect to make my collage more vibrant. In the end my pictures are excerpts from my diaries that I never wrote. |
Raffaello Pacini
---Italy--- www.disastrartcollages.wordpress.com In 2011, inspired by Richard Hamilton's collages, I began to tear and engrave the paper, creating the DisastrART Collages project. In his words, he becomes an "Hunter of forgotten stories": stories that are mostly hidden in old moldy magazines and newspapers from the 80's to the present. Once I find the images, I fragment them into clippings, which become like so many gears of a single great mechanism: the life, with its countless reflections and hidden details. "Collage is both therapy and breaking art, is the courage to paste your feelings on a cardboard, assembling them freely. And I think this is the best way to communicate what I can not say with the words " |
Jieun Kim
---South Korea--- www.facebook.com/studio157beikim I was born in Incheon, South Korea, studied Violine in Sookmyung Women’s University in South Korea. 2013 I moved to Germany to start the master study for Violine. However, after some exhibitions in Germany I visited, I totally changed my mind and now since 2015 I studying Painting at Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. When I do collage, I focus a lot on making something humorous and harmonious with colors. I’m usually cutting many pieces without a purpose and then seeing for a long-long time or even many days. One day, suddenly comes the idea to bring some pieces on paper as a new creature from my eyes. |
Mariano Alonso
---Argentina--- www.behance.net/Mariano-A-collages For me, collage is a wonderful and playful way to create an imaginary world where the images or the parts of them can get a different and new meaning. In order to the construction I think I first get inspired by the material I find ( books, old magazines, encyclopedias, etc) but I could say I am quite interested in how we humans carry all that go through us in our lives, so in most of my collages, human figures are irrupted by other elements suggesting a diverse number of ideas and sensations . Sometimes I can be more fun, ironic, dramatic, melancholy…it depends on the day. I am always looking for new inspirations. |
