(de)_TAGLIO MAGAZINE
el reino de la sandia fredonelitch GEO hahahazen infamecless LAU
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leo & pipo masterview raelbrian richardvergez
Perché (de)_Taglio Magazine? Why (de)_Taglio Magazine? In un epoca dove la comunicazione è rapida e immediata, cosi sfuggevole tanto che rimanere indietro è facile se non ovvio, nasce un impulso se non un istinto di communicare in maniera pacata, silenziosa e “composta” dove le parole colori e immagini si fondono insieme per scuotere le nostre sensazioni. La potenza del collage sta proprio in questo: dire qualcosa attraverso elementi che ci circondano nel quotidiano e che sotto i nostri occhi sono invisibili. L’immagine è comunicazione, il colore è comunicazione. E’ ancora più affascinante se si potesse avere l’occasione per potersi confrontare, condividere e trasmettere un messaggio. (de)TAGLIO_magazine vuole essere tutto ciò: uno spazio dove poter crescere insieme attravero la nostra arte fatta di carta e colla. Uno strumento di ricerca e investigazione di quello che ci circonda. L’obiettivo è promuovere la creatività giovanile, lontani dai circuiti modaioli e i salottini dell’arte oggi. Il nome (de)_TAGLIO nasce dall’accostamento di due termini: De e Taglio. Inizialmente solo Taglio, come ad esprimere unicamente, in modo diretto e impersonale, l’atto che caratterizza l’esecuzione di un collage. Il (de) viene considerato come un’abbreviazione di “detrarre”. Se pensiamo che per realizzare un collage selezioniamo, detraendo soggetti, dal loro contesto originario, da ciò che ci circonda nella vita (quotidiana e non) ,come pezzi di carta etc etc, per giustapporli donandogli una nuova validità comunicativa in un nostro scenario compositivo. Il termine Taglio, oltre a ribadire questo significato del togliere, è un’operazione insita nella tecnica del collage. Il frammento rappresentando il singolo punterà all’insieme: il tutto. Un cerchio che si chiude dove il tutto contiene il singolo che lo genera, senza il quale non avrebbe un “significato”. Significante (elemento formale) e significato (elemento intrinseco, concettuale) si fondono per una nuova configurazione. Un ulteriore riferimento è al dettaglio questo perchè un collage è formato da tanti componenti, che presi singolarmente, rappresentano ogniuno un’esperienza,un particolare, appunto un Dettaglio e se osservati nell’insieme comunicano un’ unica grande idea, proprio come il titolo di questo magazine. Infine se consideriamo il de nella lingua latina, dopo il “De Architettura”, il “De rerum natura”, da oggi avremo il “(de)TAGLIO_magazine”.
In an time where communication is quick and immediate, so much so elusive that it is easy to fall behind if not obvious, comes an impulse if not an instinct to communicate in a calm, quiet and “compound” where words and images colors blend together to shake our feelings. The power of the collage is just that: to say something through elements that surround us in everyday life and that our eyes are invisible. The image is communication, color is communication. And ‘even more fascinating if you could have the opportunity to be able to compare, share and transmit a message. (De) TAGLIO_magazine wants to be everything: a space where you can grow together attravero our art made of paper and glue. A tool of research and investigation of what surrounds us. The goal is to promote young creativity, off the beaten track and trendy lounges art today. The name (de)_TAGLIO is born from the combination of two words: “De” and “TAGLIO (to cut)”. Initially only TAGLIO as to express only in a direct and impersonal way the act that characterizes the execution of a collage. The “de” is considered as an abbreviation of deduct. If we think that we select to create a collage, deducting subjects, from their original context to what surrounds us in life,like pieces of paper etc, to imbue giving a new communicative validity in a new scenario of composition. The term TAGLIO (cut), besides confirming this meaning of taking away, is an operation inherent in the technique of collage. The fragment representing the single will aim to all: the whole. A circle where the whole contains the single that it generates, without which it would have a “meaning”. Significant (formal element) and meaning (intrinsic, conceptual) merge to a new configuration. Further reference is to detail, this because a collage is made up of many components, that individually, each one representing an experience, a particular, precisely a detail when viewed as a whole and communicating a ‘one great idea, just like the title of this magazine. Finally, if we consider the “de” in latin, after the “De Architecture”, the “De Rerum Natura”, today we have the “(de) TAGLIO_magazine”.
“The Banality”
El Reino de la Sandía
introduce yourself El Reino de la Sandía was the shared room of a flat without living room in the center of a city called like an eraser. Before and now, it ́s a handmade story written and drawn without hurries, enjoying step by step. Long live Collage. how long you make collages? I supose that I began to make collages when I was a child. Now I have taken up this activity aproximately 2 years ago, while I’ve been living in Italy. where and how you draw ispiration for your works? I like to work in my little home studio in Alicante, a lot of facts are conditions to the final result of a collage, but the most important thing is that the process makes me happy. speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine Celebration of some TV kind: modern queen of banality
why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter? I ́m very interested in handmade process, I like to make collages because I know how I begin, with a simple concept or idea, but not how I will finish...it ́s like to choose old pieces for a new puzzle.
Fred One
introduce yourself fred one litch how long you make collages? Three years where and how you draw ispiration for your works? life, nature, music, literature, the materials i use, and my family. speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine i feel most of the visual banality we are subject to, stems from complex structures, designed to control the way we think and get us to consume certain products. as individuals we have the freedom and power to liberate ourselves through original thought. sifting through all of the external stimuli and making our own determination as to how these things relate to our personal lives. with this particular collage, i wanted visually to represent an individual struggling with and trying
to make sense of the visual overload that we deal with on a day to day basis. why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter? by nature im a very tactile person, i really enjoy working with my hands. i also like the limitations of working with just scissors and glue. theres only so much you can do with those tools, so you really have to put alot of yourself into the work. the hand is imperfect, thats were the beauty is.
GEO
introduce yourself My name is RogerIio Geo’m an artist who believes in the soul. how long you make collages? Five years where and how you draw ispiration for your works? HOLY SPIRIT, FAITH, LOVE, FRIENDS, AND PUNK ROCK MUSIC AND SINCERE Wipers OF JHON Frusciante speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine DO IT YOURSELF FOREVER!! why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter? WHY IS CHAOTIC AND CONFUSED BUT SINCERE THANKS MY FRIEND!!!
Hahahazen
introduce yourself After earing a BA hons in graphic design and MA in management of design.I tried to challenge something I’’ve never done or different type of art.Therefore I work as an intern at a VFX and art studio. Besides, I am going to travel around and being a story teller via my collages :) how long you make collages? Probably started from early 2006, at that time I realized my lack of self-confidence in drawing. During that difficult period, I read the sentence “I couldn’t draw very well, so I chose to collage.” It encouraged me a lot and gave me a new way to release my emotions. I totally lost myself in collage. where and how you draw ispiration for your works? Most of the time I prefer looking for magazines and visiting flea markets.When I get my ispiration, I often choose to stick stuff down. My scrapbook already become my diary,I keep it all time.
speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine “Banality” for me just like every single day we live for. When I was a kid,I don’t want to grow up.Because I afraid to be an adult that the same as the others. Until know I still remind myself work hard but play harde, do not lose yourself. why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter? Texture!! Useing glue and cutter can combine different kind of materials.That’s why I love collage so much.
Infamecless
of an impossible perfection and detail. Holding one’s breath, just in case everything blows off and the composition gets lost, the unique one.” The subtlety takes place here, a text about Cless work written by Elena R. Alcoba. how long you make collages? I started late, around 2004, inspired by the work of Eduardo Recife. His work as an collage artist is just amazing. I first saw his work on his website at the beginning of 2001 browsing for some new fonts, but I didn’t create any manual collage until later where and how you draw ispiration for your works?
introduce yourself will use an introduction that my friend wrote to me “Some people needs to be introduced from the beginning, although they could have many. To talk about Cless’ story we are going to choose one of those possible beginnings. It could be the one that starts like “I’m a graffiti writer and one day I began with the collages” or the other one that says “I’m a graffiti writer and one day I discovered Eduardo Recife’s works”. But my favourite one is this: “When I was a little boy I told my mum that I wanted to be one Picasso, I swear, I was under the big table of the dining room drawing with my pen in some pieces of wood”. This one is the one that talks the best about Cless and after all about his work. He started with the graffiti, with the New York Wild Style from the mid seventies. But everything evolves and that’s why during the works from other artists arrived to their hands, his personal art underwent a metamorphosis: from some classical artists like Warhol, Lichtenstein or antiartistic movements like the dadaism, to Misprintedtype, {ths}, NCC, etc. Now, Cless has his own way, a personal style where the phrase “anything goes” is elevated to the eleventh power. Any image that go through his scissors get into a new story made in Cless; a spectator can look his work and give it a meaning, but it wouldn’t be the real one. Everything in his collages has a place, as if it has just been put and pasted a minute ago, except for a feeling
Everything. I am inspired by everything. The street, the signage on the street, carrying trucks, the tags on the walls, the style; trash containers, images from blogs, from magazines, books, artists, museums, galleries, etc. I like to work with paper. I work with magazine and papers that I pick up from the streets or material that people gives to me. I like to find the stuff; I like it to be by chance, though sometimes I will buy something. When I look at a magazine or a newspaper that the images catch my attention and they take a place in my head, like a jigsaw, the fit in! In some occasions I can see it so clearly speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine I tried to create something ugly but beauty, using images of brochures that have more than 30 years. I do not normally use such pictures but I liked the idea of making a composition kitsch style, rawness, with rancid essence. Saturated as always but with other aesthetic and other colors. The holiday on the beach in summer are very common, something very trivial almost insubstantial ... banal why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter? I am a graffiti writer. I have always loved Pop Art, the design, the logos, the fonts... I thing led to another and all of them had something in common, the collage. I think the collage I able to mix all forms of art and more in perfect harmony. It has an incredible graphic power. THANKS!
LAU
introduce yourself well... basic info, I’m just a young girl studying in Buenos Aires University (UBA) and working in a studio as a graphic designer. I live in Merlo, is a far town from Buenos Aires city, Argentina. Few months ago me and my partners started a group project in an atelier, called LAMM, where we make handmade bookbindings and recently experimenting with silkscreen printing with our own designs, we’re so anxious to make it grow up! find us on facebook or flickr! how long you make collages? I think I officially started in 2009 when I made a collage with postals that I collected, and pasted inside an old book I found in the university’s corridor, but in 2008 I practiced a lot of techniques for personal works, and experimented my own languaje where and how you draw ispiration for your works? Is all casual and spontaneous, I never had a previous idea in mind, such as a plan or similar, and minutes after, I make
something. I catch some materials that I like or found and start composing in a best way, generally I cut lots of papers, portraits, shapes, lines and then select only a few of them speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine Is not easy for me to put a name to my works, so the I made from a fashion magazine, I cut some parts with different textures and put them together, then I draw some shapes. after finish it, I realize that there was a second collage at the back! it was funny, but sadly I didn’t scan it yet. why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter? I guess there’s no other way to know and be conected with what you are doing if you don’t touch or feel them, digital is another tool but sure is not the same. Old stuffs are like gold for collagers! when I found lots of papers and pictures, they turn into fetishes so I can renew and create.
Leo by Leo & Pipo
introduce yourself I live in Paris, I’m 29 years old, and I’m the co-founder of street art project called Leo & Pipo. how long you make collages? I fact, I started making collages 5 years ago during a rainy Sunday, trying to make something of my day. where and how you draw ispiration for your works? I don’t have a precise inspiration in my work. I always try to find new techniques and explore new themes. It’s a question of moment and envy. My approach is more instinctive and sensitive than intellectual. speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine This collage is extract of a series I made about intimacy. My aim was to show people in banal situations, such as: in the toilet, in the kitchen, in the bathroom… In fact, situations where the photographer (the eye) shouldn’t be there.
why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter? It reminds me my childhood.
Masterview
introduce yourself I’m Christos Kourtoglou, illustrator and designer from Athens, Greece. I’m a member of the Indyvisuals Design Collective. My main work is digital collage-illustration but i’m also producing handmade artworks. how long you make collages? For about 3 years or so. where and how you draw ispiration for your works? The whole DaDa movement is still a huge inspiration, but the internet has helped a lot in viewing what’s happening now. And what’s happening is a community of collage artists worldwide, getting bigger everyday. I think everyone is drawing inspiration from one another, and still each work is unique. However, i get inspiration from other creative fields like architecture, art installations, graphic design, new media art.
speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine It’s about people who are ignorant of their banality, and sometimes it is ourselves... why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter? I love the process! As i said, i mostly do digital work, but every time i get my hands dirty, i have the feeling that this is the “real thing”. On the other hand, i believe that creativity is what matters, no matter what the tools are. It’s a big discussion, but I have a radical question to make: If you gave Kurt Schwitters photoshop, would he use it...? hope you like it, looking forward to see the mag, cheers Christos
Realbrian
introduce yourself My name is raelbrian’m 23, I’m from a small town in the south of Brazil called brusque. I started to get interested in art in 2006 and influenced by punkrock and skate.Today I spend most of my days making collages, skateboarding and playing and creating music. how long you make collages? Started in 2007, but I take seriously in mid-2008. where and how you draw ispiration for your works? Depends, depends on a lot of things.I am a very critical about the things I see,many things bother me.I’m a disturbed person hahahahha.I like to feel the emptiness, the silence in my mind, usually sit in my studio and I put one to play music that makes me feel part of it and forget about everything else, something like Miles Davis, Sonic Youth and Fugazi. And started to create.
speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine This collage represents the moment I’m going through some problems I need to change some things in my head, so the remedy. why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter? I do not know, I like art that comes from punk rock, like album covers, fanzines and there are a lot of collages.was the technique that I found myself in art, I can spend my apathy with the world cutting and pasting. I love collage.
Richard Vergez
introduce yourself I am Richard Vergez. I was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1983. Currently living in Florida. how long you make collages? I have been making collages since I was kid and started collecting nature and music magazines. where and how you draw ispiration for your works? I am mostly inspired by the Dada and surrealist movements. Also the cinematic work of David Lynch and Alejandro Jodorowsky. Most of my collages are improvised. I search through my old books and magazines for interesting images that I can juxtapose together. speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine For this collage, I was given the theme of banality. My concept here is simple. My source materials were banal and I turned them into something interesting and disturbing. The original
elements were sourced from a 1960’s issue of the Pittsburgh press, mostly from advertisements. why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter? I choose to use manual techniques because I feel it is a bit more challenging and the results are so much more exciting. When working digitally the possibilities are endless and everyone has access to the same sources it seems(google image, etc.) Hand-cut collages can be very characteristic of the artist’s collection as well as their composition style. For me it is the aesthetic of the paper texture and the happy accidents which come in to play a lot of the time.
Manifesto. 17-07-2015 Ermanno Cavaliere
Soffermarsi sulla banalità può essere interessante per la scoperta di un nuovo senso intrinseco alle cose. La banalità è quando nel quotidiano elementi ed oggetti perdono significato, di spessore, per l’abitudine. Dunque una ricerca dell’invisibile. Gli occhi possono trasformare la realtà e guardare oltre le superfici. Un frammento di carta decontestualizzato può assumere una nuova vita, in un nuovo scenario espressivo e comunicativo, dove il singolo genera il tutto e il tutto è espressione di una nuova conversazione tra gli elementi. Il frammento decontestualizzato riafferma la sua identità (da invisibile a visibile) e nella conversazione con altre forme, colori, genera nell’insieme una nuova idea, un nuovo concetto. L’accostamento tra singoli elementi provoca una tensione, ma anche una nuova empatia, che conversando nella diversità, raggiungono una nuova identità. Il collage è occasione per far rivivere e riscoprire la singolarità del quotidiano. Si gioca con la potenza visiva dell’elemento singolo e con la forza dell’insieme. In questo arcipelago di pezzi, il caso genera un quadro di conversazioni in cui i segni del tempo sono gli elementi espressivi. In questo gioco il caso è il pendolo che scandisce il tempo.
Focusing on banality can lead to the discovery of a new intrinsic meaning of things. Banality is when everyday elements and objects lose their meaning and their depth because of habit. So, it’s a search for the invisible. Our eyes can transform reality and look beyond the surface appearance. A decontextualized fragment of paper can take on a new life, in a new expressive and communicative scenario, where a single element generates the whole and the whole is an expression of a new conversation between elements. The decontextualized fragment reaffirms its identity (from invisible to visible) and in conversation with other shapes and colors, it generates a new idea, a new concept. The juxtaposition of single elements causes a tension, but also a new empathy: this conversation within diversity creates a new identity. Collage is an opportunity to revive and rediscover the uniqueness of everyday things. It’s about playing with the visual power of the single element and with the strength of the whole. In this archipelago of pieces, chance creates a scenario of conversations in which signs of time are the expressive elements. In this game, chance is the pendulum that beats time.
Kurt Schwitters 1887 - 1948
Un progetto di 速Ermanno Cavaliere (goge) 2012, 2015
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