Analog collage, 20 x 15 cm
Valeria Meizles repurposes discarded book covers, transforming them into substrates for her collage compositions. Through a deliberate process of fragmentation and reassembly, she brings together disparate found materials along with her own script. This recontextualization of the book cover transcends its original function, inviting viewers into Meizles' surrealistic perspective.
Analog collage, 15 x 15 cm
Each collage is already a certain theme that I reveal. Each time it is something different, but no less interesting. In my works I try to reveal conceptual themes, themes of associations, and inner feelings.
Analog collage, 15 x 17 cm
I always use vintage books, newspapers and magazines for my work. Finding valuable waste paper is also a random process which is very inspiring. I use old book covers as a canvas for collage, so I give waste paper a second chance to exist as a work of art. I use other people's letters that I find at flea markets, using really old materials, I kind of infuse each collage with soul.
Analog collage, 20 x 18 cm
Analog collage, 18 x 15 cm
While searching for myself as an artist, I often looked at other people's collages, some I liked, some not so much. I can't say that there is any particular work or artist that has influenced me, it's more a combination of the collages I've seen that have made me an artist.
Analog collage, 20 x 18 cm
To our regret, collage has gone to the second plan in our time, and less and less often you can see artists working in this direction. But I think that in our time, and the age of the internet, people more and more often will get acquainted with such a beautiful and alluring art as the art of collage!
Analog collage, 18 x 15 cm
Valeria Meizles was born in 1999 in Moldova where she is still currently based.
For Your Viewing Pleasure
Pablo Rasgado (b. 1984, Mexico), reconfigures materials from everyday life to create new abstractions. Much of his past work has been made from painted public walls, some extracted from busy city streets, others from temporary museum exhibitions. Sometimes the walls have political or social content. Sometimes they simply contain an image that Rasgado wants to capture and present in a new way. Whatever the source, Rasgado seeks to represent a frozen moment.
Fabiola Menchelli (b. 1983, Mexico), investigates essential ideas about photography from a wide variety of contemporary strategies and experimental techniques. Using the language of abstraction, the work seeks to expand ways of looking through photography, its stories and its processes, and its gravitation on reality.
Omar Barquet’s (b. 1979, Mexico) works predominantly refers to space, time, landscape, sound, nature and memory investigating emotional and internal human chaos within. The particularity of his work stems from his ability to understand the nature of space in a technical, analytical way which relates movement and repetition, visibility and invisibility. Barquet modifies his source of inspirations in his words “in a way of ‘collage’ for the purpose of giving the projects a synthetic language” thereby bringing an interdisciplinary aspect to it, using a "symphony" as a system to organize all his projects and collaborations.
MYDEADPONY was born in Charleroi in 1972 and is currently based in Brussels with his wife and child. His work is raw, messy & chaotic made from the bottom of his heart.
Berlin-based artist Claudia Wieser (b. 1973) is known for her Modernist-inspired geometric constructions. Influenced by the work of Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, who embraced spirituality as part of their aesthetic process, Wieser broadens their ideals to consider the coexistence of abstraction and physiological experience.
Out and About
What to watch, read, and experience, as curated by the Collé team.
READ
Stumbling Home - Fucking Awesome
“Stumbling Home” is a group exhibition catalog featuring 28 contemporary artists presenting various works from each individual artist presenting an eclectic yet dynamic collection of works in various mediums. The catalog features multiple works from each individual artist featured in the exhibition. Edition of 200, 9 x 7",
104 Pages.
VISIT
Clive Knights - The Wholesome of Fragments
A new exhibition of collage work by Portland based artist Clive Knights is being presented at Laura Vincent Design & Gallery in Portland. The exhibition will be on display from November 2nd to December 2nd 2023.
LISTEN
The Frowning Clouds - Gospel Sounds & More from the Church of Scientology
The Frowning Clouds' album "Gospel Sounds & More from the Church of Scientology" is a genuine homage to '60s music, with sunny and folksy melodies mixed with wild, nostalgic undertones. It's a 14-track journey through the essence of musical passion and expression, capturing the group's chemistry and charm as they explore love, longing, and the universal desire to connect, all presented in a raw and honest form.
