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anthony zinonos armand brac bill noir cory Peeke cranico emidio is here
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itchi n. likt icon paola lesina sara serna sba dato walter paganuzzi
“Symptom”
Sul tema. About the theme. Generalmente il termine sintomo è legato al campo medico. Per definizione il sintomo è un’alterazione della normale sensazione di sè e del proprio corpo. Alla fermata del tram ho sentito dire: “In questo periodo sono talmente nervosa (effetto) che sto iniziando a bestemmiare (effetto)”(la causa?). Riflettendo sulla banalità di questo termine, si potrebbe parlare di un vivere sintomatico? Il sintomo può essere il momento limite in cui due sfere entrano in contatto: la sfera di quello che sei, la sfera di quello che potresti diventare; alterazione. Ma anche rivelazione, presa di coscienza, intuito anche positivo. è una questione di causa ed effetto, ma qual è la causa?
Generally the term symptom is related to the medical field. By definition the symptom is an alteration of the normal feeling of yourself and your body. At tram stop i heard:”In this last period, i’m so nervous (effect) i’m starting to curse”(effect) (cause?). Thinking on the banality of this term, one could speak of a living symptomatic? Symptom can be the last moment when two spheres come into contact: the sphere what you are, the sphere of what could be; alteration. But also revelation, awareness, intuition also positive. It is a matter of cause and effect, but what is the cause?
Anthony Zinonos
introduce yourself Anthony Zinonos currently living in Oakland, California. how long you make collages? Long enough to know not to eat the glue or cut a finger off with my scissors. where and how you draw inspiration for your works? I’m very inspired by my surroundings so simply going for a walk or a bike ride helps open my eyes to new ideas and gets me excited to cut and stick paper. speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine I’ve been working on a new series of minimal pieces using a knife and ruler to do all the cutting (which I have avoided in the past) all straight lines and hard edges, it’s very OCD.
why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter? I didn’t choose the collage life, the collage life chose me!
Armand Brac
introduce yourself Hello, I am Armand Brac, I am a freelance graphic designer living in Paris. Since about a year, I have a small studio where I can make my collages and store my ever enlarging collection of books and magazines to cut into pieces. how long you make collages? I have first started doing digital collages during my graphic design school. I quickly became obsessed with it, and started working everyday for a few months in 2011. I then discovered handmade paper collages in 2012 and could not stop working this way since then. where and how you draw inspiration for your works? Other artists of course inspire me a lot, from multiple fields of art, movies, paintings, photography, comics, graphic design collage and music. I also draw inspiration from my everyday moods, and current emotions. Working very instinctively and rather quickly, I need to really listen to these feelings and be in shape with them to be able to produce a good and sincere work.
speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine I do not want to give too many leads to read this collage, but what interested me is of course how human this sort of nest looked. It inspired me this rather raw half abstract piece. why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter? The immediacy of the medium is fascinating. It also shows much strength, permitting to quickly produce powerful works, using images from the infinite source of visual memories produced since the early twentieth century. I also like this art to be very intimate and personal, like a diary, in which I put remembrance of past and present feelings, and future hopes.
Bill Noir
introduce yourself I am an observer, a movie lover. Collage artist, pinhole photographer, silkscreen printer and self-publisher, I like to experiment in all those art forms. I spend a lot of time in second-hand shops, I collect of all kinds of stuff. I am French, born in 1981, curious about other people, and i like wordplays. how long you make collages? Mainly since 2008 for the real cut&paste process. But I have started at the artschool between 2000/2003. where and how you draw inspiration for your works? I am attracted by images of textures, with nice colors, mostly printed in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Gravure printed books are the most fascinating to me. When I started, I was captivated by iconography and by the discrepancy between the common expressions and the advertising headlines of the 50’s and the ones from today. Right now, my interest is more focused on images of ancient
art, indoor plants, animals, and many other sources that triggers my attention. I also like to use the paper chips that land on my workspace to transform my compositions in a more abstract way. speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine Improvisation. The act of creation is a complex crossroad, between the desire to play and surprise myself, and the need of recognition and sharing with others. But I sense my work more and more like my own personal language. > CHAOSMOS . why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter? Making collages gives me the opportunity to gather a number of sensibilities through different imaginary worlds that I find in books and magazines. Collage allows me to twist directions, to freely associate printed documents and images from different origins and to create a whole new meaning. It is for me a rebellion of the language.
Cory Peeke
introduce yourself My name is Cory Peeke. I live in La Grande, Oregon in the U.S. with my partner, Neil and our basset hound Lorelai. I am a Professor of Art and curator of the Nightingale Gallery at Eastern Oregon University, I am also an occasional contributor to “Kolaj” magazine. how long you make collages? I have been making collages seriously since 1993 when I lived in San Francisco, California for a short time. I was broke and had no money for art supplies so I made do with the scraps of cardboard and other materials I found on the street. where and how you draw inspiration for your works? Much of the inspiration for my work comes from the materials themselves. Collecting these objects of subjective value is all about intuition and I try to approach the re-fashioning of them into new images in an intuitive way as well.
speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine From Wikipedia: “A symptom is subjective, observed by the patient and cannot be measured directly.” This piece, like much of my work, is experiencial in its making. It is something felt and its creation, from the selection of images to the layering and even when to call it finished, is subjective on my part. The materials, like symptoms, eventually add up to something weightier, yet still unmeasurable. why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter? I’m a collage maker for much the same reason I’m a curator – I love images. This affection has led me to collect remnant imagery; the largely ignored and seemingly inconsequential bits of ephemera that once had a purpose, still have a presence, but now idle in disuse. I combine, layer, juxtapose, glue, tape and re-contextualize these bits and pieces of detritus in order to reincarnate and recharge them. Through the process of collage these snippets of the past combine to become something both fresh and familiar.
Cranico
introduce yourself how long you make collages? where and how you draw inspiration for your works?
speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine
why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter?
Emidio is here
introduce yourself My name is Emidio Bernardone ,i was born in Abruzzo (Italy) and lombard by adoption. I live with my partner and two cats just outside Milan. how long you make collages? Since 2010. where and how you draw inspiration for your works? The ispiration comes everywhere, maybe when i work or in metro, in libray, when i was at home: random. speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine Specially this collage, it was very hard. I finished it in two days. why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter?
Because i can not paint and so it’s more easy to steal pics from books and magazine.
Itchi
introduce yourself I’m Itchi, a collage artist based in Paris. how long you make collages? I’ve been doing collages for 6 or 7 years. where and how you draw inspiration for your works? Inspiration comes from the images that I pick in magazines, mainly from the 50’s and 60’s. I collect a lot of old paper and pictures, things that I find in the street or anywhere. I cut the parts or the colors that I’m interested in and then I play with them like a puzzle until I find the right composition. speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine I wanted this to be a bit mysterious, to give the feeling that something is coming but you don’t know what. Something that don’t show its face.
why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter? I love the “glue game”. It’s a lot of fun. I love the feeling of old papers, images and the colors from the past. It combines the pleasure of collecting, accumulating, exploring and playing.
N. Likt Icon
introduce yourself Gimme danger. Gimme paper. Gimme something to cut. N.* lives in Turin, Italy. N.* wanna be an artist. how long you make collages? In 2006-2007 I make my first collages. From 2013 I work almost exclusively with collage. Analog and digital technique. where and how you draw inspiration for your works? Music, pop culture, movies, comics, events around me, feelings and emotions, dreams, nature… speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine Pre Depression Symptom. why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter?
The images have a great communicative power. There’s no need to invent new visual suggestions, there are already enough. compose new suggestions with disconnected images is the challenge that fascinates me, create my own visual language.
Paola Lesina
introduce yourself HI everyone, here is Paola, from Turin, Italy, I am Fashion Stylist, Photographer and traveller. I m part of an italian collective called OLTRE and founder of Nōve, an itinerant project about art and music. how long you make collages? I started making collage 2 years ago . where and how you draw inspiration for your works? Is a relaton between stability and mobilty and I use to jump from one sphere to another quite fast. Sometimes is stressful but is productive and fruitful. That means that I love working in my flat, but sometimes I just need a couple of minutes with someone , a new track in some other house or city to get inspired for a new project. Music is the partner of all this jam. speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine
The SYMPTOM of Dualism is present in the collage I choose for this issue. The Title is “TIMIDO e NERVOSO” ,that is “SHY and NERVOUS” and is made with old portuguese paper. I create a conncection between the Nordic and the African Coulture as between the two different feelings. I made it in Porto. why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter? I like changing things , give them a different life.
Sara Serna
introduce yourself
with textures and fabrics).
I am a visual effects artist from Medellin, Colombia. My work focuses on handmade collage and animation with digital and handmade collage.
why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter?
how long you make collages? Seven years. where and how you draw inspiration for your works? My work want to show a re-interpretation of the women and the femininity around me. I use elements like old textures, old papers, real flowers and leaves, fabrics and more to introduce the feel of memory and remembrance in my collage. speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine Something that is born and grows in you, may appear gradually or destroy you. That is the interpretation I wanted to give the theme: symptom. A woman filling up in his femininity (represented by flowers) but destroyed at once (represented
The cutter and glue have a special feeling that no other technique have. I think the handmade collage is a unique way to say something. You are conditioned to the images you find and that makes you use the different options that the manual assembly offers, also the huge possibilities to mix up other elements around.
Sba dato
introduce yourself My real name is Zeno Peduzzi but everybody calls me Sba. I work as a freelance graphic designer and I live near Milan. how long you make collages?
meaning off and let the composition drift into absurd or illogic moods. speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine
I started cultivating my interest in the history and aesthetic of Collage more than 10 years ago, when I studied at the Academy. My graduation project was also focused on collage. I ended up working on “anagogic” collage after many years of studying “recycled” graphic design, that makes use of old scans and images stolen from books.
This collage was inspired by Anisakis, this worm parasite thing, that enters the human body through underprocessed raw fish, and infests and compromises the whole body and organs. Everytime a scaremonger tries to convince me of the perils of eating sushi, the episode “Hair” from the movie BodyBags comes to my mind. It did while I was working on this piece as well.
where and how you draw inspiration for your works?
why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter?
I find inspiration in research: from knowledge and study of everything that happened before I was even here, dadaism and surrealism over all, but also contemporary art, graphic design and illustration. I get a sort of hunger for new pictures, chasing them among thousands of pages, in the shelves of used books markets, or magazines from local markets. I select tons of images I like and feel like I could use, and I try and create connections between them, to tear their original
I love stealing pictures, I am a true paper feticist, I love all of it: the stains, the mold, the yellowed pages.
Walter Paganuzzi
introduce yourself I’m Walter Paganuzzi born in Milano 22nd June 1978. In my life working with disable people and how long you make collages? I was collagist since 2013. Started by me the idea of creation of Italian’s collagists collective “Oltre Collage” that now have 20 active member all around Italy. where and how you draw inspiration for your works? My friend Linda Pelati inspired me after I saw her mail art collage works in her home in 2013. speak about your collage of this issue’s magazine My collage it’s a mix of political and abstract selection and speaking of myself, i’m in continuing experimentation about collage technique ‘cause i’m inspired by a lot of international collaboration that made.
why did you choose to cummicate glue and cutter? I’d Choose the cut and glue cause digital it’s not a real skin experience for me. I want to touch my work and feel the power of mine creation.
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.
Marianne Bradt 1893 - 1983
Un progetto di 速Ermanno Cavaliere (GOGE)
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