Analog collage, 10.5 x 15 cm
Arnaud Lomeau's analog collages radiate mystery. His work is characterized by an organized sense of disorder, evident in the circular stickers meticulously placed on old photographs. At times, these stickers replace the subjects' eyes or surround them. The aged colors along with the odd placement are reminiscent of Baldessari (but if he were on acid).
Analog collage, 13.5 x 20.5 cm
So far, I've always refused to have a theme or subject. I propose abstract pictures, mental pictures that can sometimes disrupt visual perception. Recently, however, I've been tackling the question of affective memory. I question this idea by using materials such as postcards, dog photos, sheets of colored paper, stickers (gommettes) that I used when I was a child.
Analog collage, 13.5 x 20.5 cm
I listen to a lot of abstract, concrete, minimal and psychic music, which puts me in the right mood to work. For several years now, I've been accumulating magazines, postcards and pictures of all kinds. I smoke a lot of cigarettes and I try to sort out these pictures, cut them up, put them everywhere and go for what I like best.
Analog collage, 16 x 24 cm
Analog collage, 14 x 21 cm
Like all my other artistic activities, collage is a moment when I'm out of the world. I listen to weird music and go somewhere else, I don't know where. In this new world, I bring prints, pictures, magazine, photos, postcards, stickers, drawings... and try to modify, assemble or destroy them to fit the world I'm in.
Analog collage, 11.5 x 16 cm
I draw, I paint, I sometimes make sculptures, installations, scenography and recently I've started making collages. Always abstract, often colorful. I like to assemble little bits of nothing, things of no importance.
Analog collage, 18 x 23.5 cm
Arnaud Loumeau was born in 1978 in Poitiers, France. He is currently based in Toulouse, France.
For Your Viewing Pleasure
Jack Felice is a graduate of Florida State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and a minor in Art History. He currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida. His artwork has appeared in The Florida Review, 14 Hills, Drim Space, The New Republic, Tagvverk, Meridian, and The Weird Show.
Bob Voigts grew up near Chicago, IL. Mostly self-taught, he works in acrylic, mixed media, collage, as well as digital media. He launched Wordsworth Design, a graphic design business in 1986. His experiments in collage and assemblage and his personal study of art history have been the biggest influence in his work, as well as the landscapes of Illinois and Missouri.
Anneke Eussen (b.1978) is known for her glass sculptures made with antique glass from numerous sources, including buildings and automobiles, mounted in plexiglas boxes and hung on the walls. Typically these materials would be discarded when their original uses have ended. In Eussen’s hands, they are the starting point for her meticulously assembled wall sculptures.
Mickalene Thomas (born 1971) is one of the most influential artists in the world today. Her innovative practice has yielded instantly recognizable and widely celebrated aesthetic languages within contemporary visual culture. She is known for her elaborate paintings composed of rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Her masterful mixed-media paintings, photographs, films and installations command the space they occupy space eloquently dissecting the complexities of black and female identity within the Western canon.
Maxwell N. Burnstein is a self-taught, Canadian artist whose handmade collages bridge traditional analog techniques with digital technology spanning the commercial, editorial, and fine art worlds. Burnstein creates his collages by hand using paper, an x-acto knife, tape, and glue before being scanned into a digital file.
Out and About
What to watch, read, and experience, as curated by the Collé team.
READ
WATCHWORD by Jason Haaf and Aaron Krach
WATCHWORD is a collaboration between author Jason Haaf and artist Aaron Krach. The book combines personal stories and journal entries from Jason and collages by Aaron. Together, they create a dreamy narrative that follows its own idiosyncratic logic.
WATCH
Arthur Jafa: APEX | ARTIST STORIES MoMA
Mickey Mouse, Tupac, planets, sculptures, Miles Davis. These are some of the 841 images that appear in rapid sequence in Arthur Jafa’s APEX, a video set to a pulsing techno beat and the beeping of a heart monitor. For several decades Jafa has collected hundreds of images from newspapers, magazines, books, and films, saving them in notebooks.
LISTEN
Neil Frances - There is no Neil Frances
Los Angeles duo Neil Frances (Jordan Feller and Marc Gilfry) share their long-awaited debut album, There Is No Neil Frances, a 14-track body of work whose concept follows the dreams of an insect looking for its true purpose in a utopian dreamscape.
