In this issue of Collage Yourself we introduce you to Le Roux Colleur, an exquisite collage artist from France. In his work, you will find a delicious visual treat full of colors, and subtle details. I remember the first time I saw Lerouxcolleur’s work. As if it were a lightning bolt of frenzy, the pieces capture your gaze. …
After months of thinking about how to develop this project, it finally sees the light. Surely you know publications about the practice of collage. Many of them have overshadowed me in the years that I have been doing this wonderful practice. Thanks to them I have been able to meet many artists who became an …
Landscape is a perspective, a point of view. With each change of era, of scopic regime, there is a change of perspective and a change of landscapes. Not only are time periods indicative of these changes, but so are regions. A landscape is a visual delimitation of geography; therefore, land borders are an indicator of …
At the end of the 19th century, visual representation began to undergo questioning and innovation. In decades eclipsed by the turn of the century, abstraction gradually gained ground in some artists’ minds. James McNeill Whistler preferred to emphasize the visual wonder of his experiences rather than mimetic representation. For his part, Paul Cézanne entrusted the …
A wealth of images comes to my mind before going to sleep, with my eyes closed. This visual stream rushes at me with force and speed. The parade, or rather the dance of the images, expresses its own tempo, cadence, and movement matrix. Extracted from an electric burst, figurative images, strident colors, and varied fonts …
Certainly, you have witnessed the following scene. Two people are in front of a collage piece. This is made up of diverse elements and includes multiple materials. At first glance, the elements that make up the piece appear chaotic generating certain assumptions in those who look at it. The most frequent and the one I …
Shortly before his death, Freud used a phrase to explain the role of psychoanalysis in relation to the mind: Saxa loquuntur. This Latin expression means the stones speak. Thus, in 1896, in his treatise on hysteria, Freud explained that the psychoanalyst, like the archaeologist, discovers vestiges of history. Symptoms such as stones can be made …
The link between word and image are the foundation of any theory of humanity. Whether it is a history of art, of communication, or of the symptom, the link between word and image becomes a source of work. Before the word was the image, said Herbert Read. The unconscious is structured as an image, stated …
When we think about the process that collage requires, cut-and-paste actions immediately come to mind. No one can doubt this. Scissors and glue are the basic tools for this activity. But beyond the edge of a knife, there are other ways to cut. Beyond liquid glue, we can join one element with another. Perhaps the …
I’m sure you know something about collage. This technique is constantly present in the media. Book covers, movie posters, theater, record covers or even content on social networks. The appropriation of this way of working is widely used in graphic design and art. But what does this repeated use tell us beyond its popularity? Answering …
