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WORLD COLLAGE DAY SPECIAL EDITION

Giving a Cryptic Touch to the Narrative

From Stuttgart, Germany, Susanna Lakner offers a colourful, but equally disciplined, cut out page. “I like the mix of old and new, monochrome and colour. I selected fabric patterns, plants, fruits and old illustrations in a wide range but in a harmonic color setting. The torn and scissored texts from contemporary magazines can give a cryptic touch to the narrative.” Her Cut Out Page appears in the World Collage Day 2020 Special Edition from Kolaj Magazine.

In honour of World Collage Day, May 9, 2020, Kolaj Magazine is releasing a special edition of the magazine that comes with a poster and a pack of 6 postcards featuring the collage elements of Emma Anna. MORE

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Kolaj Magazine, a full colour, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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WORLD COLLAGE DAY SPECIAL EDITION

Breathing with the Least Possible Elements

Julia Payne’s collages trade on composition and materiality. The Wheeling, West Virginia artist writes, “My central question is: ‘What is enough?’ It is meaningful to me to create something pleasing with as few elements as possible. Many artists comment that they don’t know when to stop. For me, that is no problem. It’s satisfying also, to repurpose and reuse. The meditative state of this work is a bonus.” Her Cut Out Page appears in the World Collage Day 2020 Special Edition from Kolaj Magazine.

In honour of World Collage Day, May 9, 2020, Kolaj Magazine is releasing a special edition of the magazine that comes with a poster and a pack of 6 postcards featuring the collage elements of Emma Anna. MORE

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Kolaj Magazine, a full colour, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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WORLD COLLAGE DAY NORTH VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA

AFK World Collage Day Exhibition

The Gordon Smith Gallery will host a virtual exhibition of secondary students', art educators', and artists' collage work from the community. They are kicking off the exhibit for World Collage Day May 9, 2020 and are hosting the exhibit on their website until the end of May. DETAILS AND MORE EVENTS

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Kolaj Magazine, a full colour, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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WORLD COLLAGE DAY SPECIAL EDITION

Endless Interpretations & Challenging Narratives 

“I look for or seek out collage everywhere; often I find myself ‘cutting’ in my mind something I see in the street and imagining it mixed with other images,” writes Tom Amoretti. “By nature and nurture a hoarder, I mainly use old and new magazines and books, also sometimes found objects. My collages are all analog/hand made; never computer, photocopies or scans as I like the limitation provided by just working with found materials.” The London-based artist's Cut Out Page appears in the World Collage Day 2020 Special Edition from Kolaj Magazine.

In honour of World Collage Day, May 9, 2020, Kolaj Magazine is releasing a special edition of the magazine that comes with a poster and a pack of 6 postcards featuring the collage elements of Emma Anna. MORE

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Kolaj Magazine, a full colour, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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THIS WEEK AT KOLAJ MAGAZINE

Excavations, Communities, & Sensual Media

FROM KOLAJ 28  Excavations, Projections & Depth: Clive Knights and Andrea Burgay in Conversation

COLLAGE COMMUNITIES Oltre Collage, Milan, Italy

COLLAGE COMMUNITIES Mystic Krewe of Scissors & Glue, New Orleans, Louisiana

COLLAGE BOOKS Sensual Media & COLLAGE 1990-2020 Two titles by Fabian Giles 

WORLD COLLAGE DAY SPECIAL EDITION Endless Interpretations & Challenging Narratives Tom Amoretti, London, United Kingdom

WORLD COLLAGE DAY SPECIAL EDITION Uncanny Scenes, Ludic Characters, & Nature Ana Paula Barros, Munich, Germany

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Kolaj Magazine, a full colour, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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WORLD COLLAGE DAY SPECIAL EDITION

Stories Come in Many Parts

Chattanooga, Tennessee's Kayla West is drawn to contradictions and the tension between personal and universal experiences. “Collage material brings its own contexts and contradictions to the artwork. Embracing this has become a big part of my practice. I create work which deals with the daily experiences, womanhood, childhood and identities, but what I hope is to illustrate stories which tread the line between the personal and the universal and all the contradictions that comes with.” Her Cut Out Page appears in the World Collage Day 2020 Special Edition from Kolaj Magazine.

In honour of World Collage Day, May 9, 2020, Kolaj Magazine is releasing a special edition of the magazine that comes with a poster and a pack of 6 postcards featuring the collage elements of Emma Anna. MORE

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Kolaj Magazine, a full colour, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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WORLD COLLAGE DAY SPECIAL EDITION

A Nugget of Yellow in Blue, Black and Grey

A class at a community art centre revealed, in Diane Cameron from Ogden, Quebec, Canada, a passion for colour, shapes, lines and patterns that courses through her work. Her practice is a labour of pleasure. “The way I learned to create collage was to rip paper and place the pieces to form abstract, unrecognizable shapes,” writes the artist. “I like the soft edges ripped paper creates and I’m interested in saying something with colours and shapes.” Her Cut Out Page appears in the World Collage Day 2020 Special Edition from Kolaj Magazine.

In honour of World Collage Day, May 9, 2020, Kolaj Magazine is releasing a special edition of the magazine that comes with a poster and a pack of 6 postcards featuring the collage elements of Emma Anna. MORE

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Kolaj Magazine, a full colour, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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WORLD COLLAGE DAY SPECIAL EDITION

The Meaning of Collage Comes From Freedom

“I enjoy the lightness with which anything can be composed, at the same time creating stories that I think up. 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,” writes Martin Došek from Pardubice, Czech Republic. His Cut Out Page appears in the World Collage Day 2020 Special Edition from Kolaj Magazine.

In honour of World Collage Day, May 9, 2020, Kolaj Magazine is releasing a special edition of the magazine that comes with a poster and a pack of 6 postcards featuring the collage elements of Emma Anna. MORE

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Kolaj Magazine, a full colour, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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