July 2012 Blog Posts (8)

Some small collages that will be pamphlet stitch bound into a photo album-like book.

With this technique I want to affect reality, shape it, mold it as I  like it. With collages I always start from reality but I discussing boundaries, I change it. I rebirth the reality, I rage  on her with a cutter.

The practice of collage is a eulogy of the fragment, and the residual. In the same time is a desperate search for completeness. If on one hand the residue is isolated by extrapolating it from its original context, on the other hand it becomes necessary to integrate it, to…

Stumbled on this site recently -- Open Culture.

This LINK is for the Art section.  Some wonderful film/videos. From Wassily Kandinsky in the act of painting, to a case being made for European cave art being the earliest form of cinema, to David Hockney in the act of painting. My favorite so far is A Brief History of  …

http://www.wallawalladada.com/index.html

I hope many artists from here will enjoy paying a visit to this Musuem of Un-Natural History created  by Gerald Matthews.

Cecil ... what news on the publication of the book containing all the collages that were

made for the occasion?

Thanks ... Nikki

Kolaj Magazine

A nice review of the exhibition catalog by the nice folks at Kolaj Magazine. Check out the most recent issue it is full of lots of wonderful stuff including a wonderful interview with Fred Free.…