COLART#02

INTERNATIONALCOLLAGEART

CECIL TOUCHON

MAZUKA

Cory peeke

Pd lietz

Musta fior

Flore kunst

Josie beszant

Dada vfc

MONGOBÌ

BOB SCOTT

GABRIELA KOSTESKY

KATRIEN DE BLAUWER

FERNANDO NANDY MARZULLO

GEORGE BOYA

ARANTXA RUEDA

CHRISTOS KOURTOGLOU

FEMKE VAN DER RIJST

ZACH COLLINS

TOSHIAKI UCHIDA

K MACKOWICK

ARI CHÁVES CHACÓN

LAILA MANIERI

ELLSAGUT

IVANA MILOVANOVIc

NESTOW SAKACZBIA

GIVEMEAWORK

COLART#02

INTERNATIONALCOLLAGEART

CECIL TOUCHON (Pagosa Springs - U.S.A.)

MAZUKA (São Carlos - Brazil)

Cory peeke (La Grande – U.S.A.)

Pd lietz (Manitoba - Canada)

Musta fior (La Rochelle - France)

Flore kunst (Lyon - France)

Josie beszant (Yorkshire Dale – U.K.)

Dada vfc (Moinesti - Romania)

MONGOBÌ (Florence - Italy)

BOB SCOTT (New York City – U.S.A.)

GABRIELA KOSTESKY (Montevideo - Uruguay)

KATRIEN DE BLAUWER (Antwerp - Belgium)

FERNANDO NANDY MARZULLO (Buenos Aires - Argentina)

GEORGE BOYA (Thessaloniki - Greece)

ARANTXA RUEDA (Murcia - Spain)

CHRISTOS KOURTOGLOU (Athens - Greece)

FEMKE VAN DER RIJST (Utrecht - Holland)

ZACH COLLINS (Minneapolis – U.S.A.)

TOSHIAKI UCHIDA (Yokohama - Japan)

K MACKOWICK (Pittsburgh – U.S.A.)

ARI CHÁVES CHACÓN (Cuernavaca - Mexico)

LAILA MANIERI (Porto Alegre - Brazil)

ELLSAGUT (São Paulo - Brazil)

IVANA MILOVANOVIC (Belgrade – Republic of Serbia)

NESTOW SAKACZBIA (Gdansk - Poland)

GIVEMEAWORK (Milan - Italy)

COLART#02

International Collage Art

Agradece a todos os 26 artistas participantes de 17 países que participam desta segunda edição.

COLART#02

International Collage Art

Thanks to all 26 artists from 17 countries participating in this second edition.

Para participar da COLART#03 envie suas obras em formato JPEG (até 10 obras por artista) juntamente

com uma biografia curta, até o dia 20/09/2012 para o e-mail: t.mazuca@gmail.com

To participate in the COLART#03 send your works in JPEG format (up to 10 works) together with a

short biography, until September 20, 2012 to e-mail: t.mazuca@gmail.com

Coordenação Geral: Thiago Mazucato (Mazuka)

Índice / Index

CECIL TOUCHON (Pagosa Springs - U.S.A.)……………………………………..02

MAZUKA (São Carlos - Brazil)...............................................................................13 Cory peeke (La Grande – U.S.A.)......................................................................24 Pd lietz (Manitoba - Canada)……………………………………………………….35 Musta fior (La Rochelle - France)……………………………………………….43 Flore kunst (Lyon - France)……………………………………………………....54 Josie beszant (Yorkshire Dale – U.K.)…………………………………………65 Dada vfc (Moinesti - Romania)…………………………………………….………74 MONGOBÌ (Florence - Italy)…………………………………………………………….80 BOB SCOTT (New York City – U.S.A.)……………………………………………...91 GABRIELA KOSTESKY (Montevideo - Uruguay)…………………………..102 KATRIEN DE BLAUWER (Antwerp - Belgium)………………………..…… 110 FERNANDO NANDY MARZULLO (Buenos Aires - Argentina)………....120 GEORGE BOYA (Thessaloniki - Greece)………………………………………...129 ARANTXA RUEDA (Murcia - Spain)…………….......................................……135 CHRISTOS KOURTOGLOU (Athens - Greece).............................................142 FEMKE VAN DER RIJST (Utrecht - Holland)…………………………….….153 ZACH COLLINS (Minneapolis – U.S.A.)...........................................................164 TOSHIAKI UCHIDA (Yokohama - Japan)………………………………..…….175 K MACKOWICK (Pittsburgh – U.S.A.)……………………………………….…..186 ARI CHÁVES CHACÓN (Cuernavaca - Mexico)…………......................…..194 LAILA MANIERI (Porto Alegre - Brazil)……………..........................……….203 ELLSAGUT (São Paulo - Brazil)..........................................................................214 IVANA MILOVANOVIC (Belgrade – Republic of Serbia).........................219 NESTOW SAKACZBIA (Gdansk - Poland)……………………………….…….225 GIVEMEAWORK (Milan - Italy)…………………………………………..………..231

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COLART#02

PRESENTS:

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CECIL_TOUCHON

Cecil Touchon was born in 1956 in Austin, Texas and holds a BFA in painting from UTA – University of Texas at Arlington. Touchon has been working in collage since the mid 1970’s and started his well known widely collected Fusion Series of collage art in 1983. To the present he has produced some 3,500 collages. Touchon maintains studios in Pagosa Springs, Colorado USA and in Tepoztlan, a small colonial town an hour south of Mexico City, Mexico. Touchon is also involved with the Visual Poetry, Fluxus and international Mail Art communities.

In the mid 1990’s Touchon founded what is known as the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction – a project using the idea of a museum as a grand assemblage. Through the use of the internet, open collection policy and the generous help of collage/assemblage artists all over the world Touchon has amassed a collection well in excess of 10,000 works of collage and assemblage art intended for preservation and study. He recently has opened this unique collection to the public in the small mountain town of Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Through the museum project Touchon has been instrumental in increasing the awareness of the art of collage and assemblage and in fostering the development of the global community of collage and assemblage artists we have seen emerging over the last decade.

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Cecil Touchon, Fusion Series #1917, collage and acrylic on paper.

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Cecil Touchon, A Memory Snapshot (The Danger Suite), collage on paper.

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Cecil Touchon, Second Tongue (The Danger Suite), collage on paper.

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Cecil Touchon, To Reveal Fluorescence (The Danger Suite), collage on paper.

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Cecil Touchon, Post Dogmatist Painting #518, collage on canvas.

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Cecil Touchon, Post Dogmatist Painting #529, collage and acrylic on canvas.

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Cecil Touchon, Post Dogmatist Painting #550, paper and acrylic on canvas.

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Cecil Touchon, Fusion Series #3071, collage on paper.

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Cecil Touchon, Fusion Series #3192, collage on paper.

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Cecil Touchon, Fusion Series #3190, collage on paper.

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MAZUKA

Mazuka currently lives, studies and produces your artworks in São

Carlos (São Paulo, Brazil). Seeks to express the tension that exists in the

dymanic balance between harmony and conflict, through the

ressignificance of images and colors. Mazuka believes in the social

construction of reality, and the social assignment of meaning to things in

the world, as reflected in his artworks in a procedure that simultaneously

resignifies, exposes and controverts ideas and values. “At the same time

we have our intimate moments of creative glimpses, we are also

immersed in a society that’s increasingly global that, on the one hand

forces us in a position of passive bestialized, on the other gives us small

spaces to manifest our views. Our artwork is one of this ‘privileged’

spaces”.

Mazuka atualmente mora, estuda e produz seus trabalhos na cidade

de São Carlos, SP. Procura expressar a tensão que existe no equilíbrio

dinâmico entre a harmonia e o conflito, através da ressignificação de

imagens e cores. Mazuka acredita na construção social da realidade e

na atribuição social de sentido às coisas do mundo, o que se reflete

em suas obras em um procedimento que ao mesmo tempo

ressignifica, expõe e questiona ideias e valores. “Ao mesmo tempo

que temos nossos momentos íntimos de lampejos criativos, também

estamos mergulhados numa sociedade cada vez mais globalizada

que, se por um lado nos força a uma posição de bestialização passiva,

por outro nos oferece pequenos espaços para manifestarmos nossos

pontos de vista. A nossa arte é um desses espaços ‘privilegiados’”.

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Mazuka, Subtly, handmade collage, 2012.

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Mazuka, Noise, handmade collage, 2012.

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Mazuka, Time, handmade collage, 2012.

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Mazuka, The End of All, handmade collage, 2012.

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Mazuka, Not by Chance, handmade collage, 2012.

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Mazuka, Unbearable, handmade collage, 2012.

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Mazuka, Health, handmade collage, 2012.

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Mazuka, Clash, handmade collage, 2012.

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Mazuka, Take Care, handmade collage, 2012.

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Mazuka, Flowing, handmade collage, 2012.

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CORY PEEKE

Cory W. Peeke was born in Sturgis, Michigan in 1968. He received his BFA in Fine Arts from Kendall College of Art and Design and his MFA from the University of Idaho. His works are included in the permanent collections of Eastern Oregon University, Lockhaven University, and the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction. Cory serves as the Director of the Nightingale Gallery and Associate Professor of Art & Art History at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, Oregon, USA.

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 at once something fresh and familiar. They both exemplify and explore the duality that is the transient, disposable nature of our culture as well as the necessity to create tradition and solidify a cultural continuity.

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Cory Peeke, Untitled (BO), traditional mixed media collage, 2012.

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Cory Peeke, Untitled (dog butt), traditional mixed media collage, 2012.

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Cory Peeke, Untitled (eye sea), traditional mixed media collage, 2012.

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Cory Peeke, Untitled (guess), traditional mixed media collage, 2012.

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Cory Peeke, Untitled (lady tag), traditional mixed media collage, 2012.

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Cory Peeke, Untitled (nuts), traditional mixed media collage, 2012.

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Cory Peeke, Untitled (reader’s digest), traditional mixed media collage, 2012.

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Cory Peeke, Untitled (route 5), traditional mixed media collage, 2012.

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Cory Peeke, Untitled (surprise inside), traditional mixed media collage, 2012.

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Cory Peeke, Untitled (urinal), traditional mixed media collage, 2012.

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PD LIETZ

Pd Lietz is a widely published writer, photographer and artist who lives in a rural Manitoba Canada. The daughter and grand-daughter of distinguished Canadian photographers, Ms. Lietz was awarded first prize in last year's United Kingdom Frost Photography International Competition. Her photography, art and writing has appeared in numerous anthologies and in many publications such as; Naugatuck River Review, Three Room Press, MaINtENaNT: Journal of Contemporary DADA Writing and Art journals #4, #5 and #6 ( collages) , Alpha Beat Press- Broadside, Troubadour, and Enchanting Verses International Poetry Journal and grace the covers of many more.

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Pd Lietz, I beseech you, photo, drawing and digital art, 2011.

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Pd Lietz, Imagination, photo, drawing and digital art, 2012.

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Pd Lietz, Of Mice and Men, photo, drawing and digital art, 2012.

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Pd Lietz, Setting the Scope, photo, drawing and digital art, 2012.

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Pd Lietz, Shit Storm, photo, drawing and digital art, 2012.

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Pd Lietz, The concert, The dance, photo, drawing and digital art, 2012.

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Pd Lietz, The Conversation, photo, drawing and digital art, 2012.

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MUSTA FIOR

Musta Fior lives and works in La Rochelle, France. He composed his first collage a cloudy day in July 2010, has posted this collage on Facebook and found that persons unknown had completely enjoyed this collage. Since, Musta did not stop to cut, paste, create new images.

He first made a series of thirty collages made of mixed images (with a legend as the title), then a thirty second also made from pictures cut from a major French daily. He is currently starting a series of digital collages made from images of Japan and continues to cut, paste, staging new images on paper, tries to abstraction while trying to stay poetic. It works for some time on various projects with other international collagists.

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Musta Fior, The Little Dancer (first series), cut paper collage, 2010.

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Musta Fior, The Thief and The Girl Call (first series), cut paper collage, 2010.

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Musta Fior, Deparchoice (first series), cut paper collage, 2010.

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Musta Fior, Prière à Vinyl et Ventilo (first series), cut paper collage, 2010.

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Musta Fior, enfin, ils arrivent! (first series), cut paper collage, 2010.

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Musta Fior, Remove your masks! (second series), cut paper collage, 2011.

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Musta Fior, Where is dad (second series), cut paper collage, 2011.

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Musta Fior, Both derisive (second series), cut paper collage, 2012.

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Musta Fior, Difficult communication (second series), cut paper collage, 2012.

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Musta Fior, Just look there! (second series), cut paper collage, 2012.

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FLORE KUNST

I was born in Lyon (France) in 1978. Graduated from the school Emile Cohl, I experimented and worked in many areas such as: textile design, vector illustration, the graphic design, drawing, photography etc ... I practice collage since 2010. This was a personal revolution, and this medium has become obvious. I collect old magazines, postcards and other more contemporary sources to create and mix my collages. then i work on photoshop to bring depth, shadows or to change colors.

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Flore Kunst, Roads, mixed media collage, 2012.

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Flore Kunst, Déclencheur, mixed media collage, 2012.

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Flore Kunst, On ignore, mixed media collage, 2012.

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Flore Kunst, physiognomy, mixed media collage, 2012.

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Flore Kunst, Lunch, mixed media collage, 2012.

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Flore Kunst, Belly bridge, mixed media collage, 2012.

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Flore Kunst, Lugdnum, mixed media collage, 2012.

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Flore Kunst, Fox from outer space, mixed media collage, 2012.

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Flore Kunst, disconnect, mixed media collage, 2012.

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Flore Kunst, Ghost rider, mixed media collage, 2012.

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JOSIE BESZANT

Based in the Yorkshire Dales in the UK Josie has been an artist/gallery owner here for the last 20 years.

Her work takes discarded objects from the past and through reworking them attempts to speak about the present and future. It looks at decay and preservation, makes connections between people who have long gone from this world and our current experience of the world. The work sometimes appears to have a simple narrative meaning but a corner gives way to something else and you realise there are layers of meaning and metaphor, and a line walked between darkness and light. Josie's work has been exhibited widely in the UK and has also featured in exhibitions and collections in the USA and New Zealand.

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Josie Beszant, Into Every Life a Little Rain Must Fall, handmade papers, old book page, 1918 envelope marked ‘on active service’, old photo, acrylic paint, ink, monopoly piece, 2009.

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Josie Beszant, I Wear her Dress, old map, handmade papers, book papers, musicsheets, threads, photograph, 2010.

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Josie Beszant, The Inheritance, pianola paper, deeds and wills documents, tracing paper, handmade paper, silver leaf, photographs, lace, muslin, silk, threads, 2011.

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Josie Beszant, The Red Shoes, photograph, watch, music sheets, acrylic, silver leaf, 2010.

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Josie Beszant, Sea Blue Eyes, photograph, maritime map, book paper, 2012.

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Josie Beszant, Memmory Collection – Silence, photo album page, music sheets, stamps, wax matches, will paper, pen nibs, deeds, acetate, ink, 2012.

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Josie Beszant, The Dancer, photograph, threads, diary pages, lace, pattern paper, music sheets, chain, ink, acrylic, 2012.

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Josie Beszant, St. Ann Pray For Us, photograph, ticket, map, religious medal, deeds, acrylic, 2012.

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DADA VFC

I'm a dizzy bard, a wild dreamer and a clumsy alchemist... My name is Viorel Florin Costea (vfc) and I live in Moinesti - Dada

City, Romania - the place where Tristan Tzara, the founder of Dada Movement, was born in 1896. So, my nickname is dada vfc, k?

I love to create collages and all kinds of paintings, including digital paintings. I really enjoy playing with forms and colors on canvas, on wood or on my laptop. I spend a lot of time mixing chromatic wishes and desires with imagination and fantasy.

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Dada Vfc, dada dream, collage, 2010-2012.

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Dada Vfc, 23 dada grunge, collage, 2010-2012.

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Dada Vfc, dada spider man, collage, 2010-2012.

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Dada Vfc, enjoy dada, collage, 2010-2012.

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Dada Vfc, zen dada, collage, 2010-2012.

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MONGObì

Mongobì is pseudonym of Bibbiana Tanina Mele. I am an Italian

artist, and I was born in Sardinia island, but I'm living and working in

Florence. I have attended the Art Institute in Nuoro, and I graduated as a

Master of Arts. Then I moved to Florence, and made studies at the Faculty

of Architecture and then at the Faculty of History of Art graduating in

Museology. After that I have specialized in Contemporary Art. Generally

my creativity is mostly oriented toward the collage, photography,

drawing, painting and sculpture. Much of my work revolves around the

idea of waste and loss, poor materials. I'm a manual collagist. With this

technique I want to affect reality, shape it, mold it as like it. With collages I

always start from reality but I discussing boundaries, I change it. I rebirth

the reality, I rage on her with a cutter. The practice of collage is a eulogy of

the fragment, and the residual. In the same time is a desperate search for

completeness.

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Mongobì, Abstract, collage, 2011.

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Mongobì, Love (series 1), collage, 2011.

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Mongobì, Love (series 2), collage, 2011.

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Mongobì, Curtains woman (series 5), collage, 2012.

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Mongobì, Curtains woman (series 6), collage, 2012.

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Mongobì, Day to tay (series 2), collage, 2011.

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Mongobì, Day to day (series 4), 2011.

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Mongobì, Dirty 1, collage, 2012.

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Mongobì, Dirty 2, collage, 2012.

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Mongobì, Mask 2, collage, 2012.

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BOB SCOTT

I am a graphic illustrator and collage artist from Richmond Virginia. I began making collages for fun when I moved to New York City after college. My collages then were mainly custom 'cover' art for mix tapes that I sent to my girlfriend and other friends that I missed.

My collages are a combination of both art and archeology. I slice up various resources including vintage paperback book covers, and the images and ads that are buried within the pages of the many old magazines that I have collected over the years.

By taking these eye- catching images and type from their original format and reinterpreting them in collages my goal is to give them a renewed aesthetic and revived visual life.

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Bob Scott, All, handmade collage, 2012.

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Bob Scott, Page 183, handmade collage, 2011.

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Bob Scott, Be a commercial artist, handmade collage, 2012.

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Bob Scott, Xo, handmade collage, 2010.

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Bob Scott, Found Future, handmade collage, 2011.

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Bob Scott, Ticket, handmade collage, 2011.

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Bob Scott, Pastures of heaven, handmade collage, 2011.

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Bob Scott, La pittura, handmade collage, 2011.

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Bob Scott, Richardprince, handmade collage, 2011.

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Bob Scott, Surfaces, handmade collage, 2011.

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GABRIELA KOSTESKY

En el año 1996, junto a mi mochila comencé un viaje, encontrando trayectos de dibujos, óleos, tintas…, donde dos años más tarde me enfrenté con un collage llamado “Desestructura”, obteniendo de su mano mi primer premio.

En este camino esotérico, habitado por transparencias, cartones, tules y papeles de diarios, entre otros visitantes ocasionales, mis collages constituyen un escenario en el que actores rústicos, suaves, antojadizos y obedientes acuerdan transmitir particulares sensaciones. La investigación y el estudio constante han sido mi premisa en dicho recorrido.

A través de exposiciones y concursos la comunicación mutua con el interlocutor me llevó a un cautivante juego donde el observador y el observado dejamos de ser los mismos en cada mirada. En el año 2006, esas miradas lograron que fuera seleccionada nuevamente.

En la búsqueda de uno y del otro hace pocos años me introduje en el mundo del Cine con Los Retratos, teniendo como herramienta una mixtura de técnicas que me permitieron conocer profundamente la esencia humana y , como el Dr. Jeckyll y Mr. Hyde, la dualidad del Hombre.

Al cautivarlos recorreremos juntos mi mundo...

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Gabriela Kostesky, Taxi Driver, collage, s/d.

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Gabriela Kostesky, Clock Orange, collage, s/d.

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Gabriela Kostesky, Kill Bill, collage, s/d.

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Gabriela Kostesky, Matrix, collage, s/d.

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Gabriela Kostesky, Crazy Wood, collage, s/d.

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Gabriela Kostesky, Body and Soul, collage, s/d.

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Gabriela Kostesky, Pureza, collage, s/d.

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KATRIEN DE BLAUWER

Emotions have always been the driving force and main consideration in what I do and make. I am also strongly drawn to the uncomfortable in human emotion, like pain, sorrow, loss, desire. It’s about life and death, what we are, what we signify, how we are loved.

I like the directness of pictures and their brute presence. With my idiosyncratic, condensed cuts and pastes I try to relate a story of my own. In doing so, I find, often unwittingly, new meanings and associations, which also has a therapeutic effect on me. It’s a process of finding my own language and listening to it.

Where must we hide when it comes from inside - J. Taylor

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Katrien de Blauwer, Cinematic Cuts (1), collage, 2012.

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Katrien de Blauwer, Cinematic Cuts (6), collage, 2012.

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Katrien de Blauwer, Inappropriate (2), collage, 2012.

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Katrien de Blauwer, Inappropriate (3), collage, 2012.

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Katrien de Blauwer, Je sors pour vous, collage, 2012.

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Katrien de Blauwer, Movement (1), collage, 2012.

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Katrien de Blauwer, Movement (3), collage, 2012.

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Katrien de Blauwer, Movement (4), collage, 2012.

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Katrien de Blauwer, Untitled Upright, collage, 2012.

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FERNANDO NANDY

MARZULLO

Artista autodidacta nacido en Buenos Aires, Argentina. 7 años haciendo collage manual reciclando revistas y todo tipo de papeles, transmitiendo emociones, sentimiendos y deseos.

Actualmente realiza exposiciones y lanza fanzines con su material. tambien se desempeña como artista callejero realizando stencils y pintadas en las paredes.

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Fernando Nandy Marzullo, Collage manual (1), collage, 2012.

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Fernando Nandy Marzullo, Collage manual (2), collage, 2012.

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Fernando Nandy Marzullo, Collage manual (3), collage, 2012.

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Fernando Nandy Marzullo, Collage manual (4), collage, 2012.

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Fernando Nandy Marzullo, Collage manual (5), collage, 2012.

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Fernando Nandy Marzullo, Collage manual (6), collage, 2012.

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Fernando Nandy Marzullo, Collage manual (7), collage, 2012.

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Fernando Nandy Marzullo, Collage manual (8), collage, 2012.

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GEORGE BOYA

George Boya was born and lives in Thessaloniki Greece. He studied interior decoration and conservation of art in which he made his 6 month practice at the Byzantine Museum of Thessaloniki. for the past 8 years, and with starting point the need for creative expression, he creates collage artworks with a technique of his own invention based on the stained glass art that we usually see on mediaeval churches. His prime materials are photographs which he defrags in order to isolate the parts that he would use in order to create the new artwork. His inspiration comes from the works of the old Masters, religion, science, everyday life and the main theme of his artwork is always human centred.

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George Boya, Imagination of Homo Mechanicus, handmade collage on plexiglass, 2012.

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George Boya, Behold the new man of steel, handmade collage on plexiglass, 2012.

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George Boya, Mask of Serenity, handmade collage on hardboard, 2010.

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George Boya, Little street Saints, handmade collage on hardboard, 2010.

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George Boya, Thoth’s dream, handmade collage on hardboard, 2006.

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ARANTXA RUEDA

Was born in Murcia (Spain) but now she is living in Barcelona. She is a graphic designer who experimenting with photography and collage. She loves working on differents fields of design and working with collage on differents supports. She thinks the collage offers lots of possibilities and now she is aplying her collage on clothes.

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Arantxa Rueda, Así es ella, handmade collage, 2012.

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Arantxa Rueda, Dramaturgo, handmade collage, 2011.

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Arantxa Rueda, Lovers, handmade collage, 2012.

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Arantxa Rueda, Folklorica, handmade collage, 2011.

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Arantxa Rueda, S.r, handmade collage, 2012.

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Arantxa Rueda, Huellas, handmade collage, 2012.

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CHRISTOS KOURTOGLOU

I'm an illustrator from Athens, Greece. I work with the Indyvisuals Design Collective. I make collage work, both handmade and digital. I usually work with old sewing magazines of the 70's and 80's but sometimes I combine them with new glossy paper cuts and I like to add ink and acrylics in the pieces. I'm always trying to find the right balance between these materials. The mix of the old and new fascinates me. Usually there are figures involved, I'm interested in all the distortions a human, and not only, can have. My digital work has the same structure, I use scanned images, painted papers and make the composition in photoshop, giving them a handmade feel. I love both types of work, I combine them a lot, I think graphic design can be very artistic.

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Christos Kourtoglou, auntie, collage on postcard, ink, acrylics, 2012.

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Christos Kourtoglou, ghost, collage on paper, ink, pencil, 2012.

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Christos Kourtoglou, l’ecume des jours, digital collage, 2012.

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Christos Kourtoglou, Leo & Pipo portrait, digital collage, 2012.

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Christos Kourtoglou, little monster, collage on paper, ink, acrylics, 2012.

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Christos Kourtoglou, Minoan griffin, digital collage, 2012.

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Christos Kourtoglou, minoan women, digital collage, 2012.

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Christos Kourtoglou, my alien child, collage on postcard, ink, acrylics, 2012.

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Christos Kourtoglou, naked lunch, digital collage, 2012.

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Christos Kourtoglou, the father, digital collage, 2011.

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FEMKE VAN DER RIJST

I was born in 1982 in Utrecht, Holland where I still live today and am working on preparing for my first solo exhibition. For the last 5 years almost all my cut & paste has been self-portrait. My work is handmade and non-digital. When I started making collages it was about expressing myself. In a sense collages worked as therapy. Nowadays it’s about the aspiration to create freely and share that outcome with the world. I work from a place of spontaneity, intuition and fantasy. I just love a puzzle, making images and words work; discovering alignment where there was none, gives me such satisfaction. Call me crazy but it is my I strong believe that everything I bring together, the meeting of lines and the perfect blending of images, is meant to be. The blueprint of it is already here. All I need to do is see the alignment and glue it together.

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Femke Van Der Rijst, BeingMe, collage, 2012.

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Femke Van Der Rijst, Fragment, collage, 2012.

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Femke Van Der Rijst, ‘Ineens’, collage, 2012.

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Femke Van Der Rijst, Memories, collage, 2012.

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Femke Van Der Rijst, Portrait of Judit, collage, 2012.

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Femke Van Der Rijst, Untitled#01, collage, 2010.

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Femke Van Der Rijst, Untitled#02, collage, 2012.

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Femke Van Der Rijst, Untitled#03, collage, 2012.

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Femke Van Der Rijst, Untitled#04, collage, 2012.

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Femke Van Der Rijst, Untitled#05, collage, 2012.

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ZACH COLLINS

Zach Collins is living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Where he is attending graduate school at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Upon graduating from high school Zach has served in the military, received his Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design, and in 2009 a Masters of Arts Degree in Graphic Design. Currently working toward his Master of Fine Arts Degree at M.C.A.D. Once at M.C.A.D. his main focus switched from digital collage to analog collage. The switch was influenced by revisiting a childhood car accident and sparked a new love for the process of Collage. He has no plans of slowing down and plans to keep cutting well into the future.

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Zach Collins, Boom, cut and paste collage, 2012.

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Zach Collins, Bystander, cut and paste collage, 2012.

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Zach Collins, Doc, cut and paste collage, 2012.

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Zach Collins, Going, cut and paste collage, 2011.

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Zach Collins, Likes if Rough, cut and paste collage, 2012.

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Zach Collins, Rant, cut and paste collage, 2011.

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Zach Collins, Solar ship, cut and paste collage, 2011.

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Zach Collins, Space, cut and paste collage, 2011.

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Zach Collins, Up For Interpretation, cut and paste collage, 2012.

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Zach Collins, Warmth, cut and paste collage, 2012.

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TOSHIAKI USHIDA

Toshiaki Uchida born and living in Yokohama (Japan). After experience as an assistant for a fashion designer, started to make collages siense 3 years ago. Express the own surrealism by collage with a bit of humor.

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Toshiaki Uchida, Coffee Makers, digital collage, 2012.

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Toshiaki Uchida, Cycling, digital collage, 2012.

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Toshiaki Uchida, Extreme Operating, digital collage, 2012.

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Toshiaki Uchida, Intergalactic, digital collage, 2012.

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Toshiaki Uchida, Moonrise kingdom, digital collage, 2012.

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Toshiaki Uchida, Planet Plant, digital collage, 2011.

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Toshiaki Uchida, The Another Way To Go To The Moon, digital collage, 2012.

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Toshiaki Uchida, The Door, digital collage, 2010.

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Toshiaki Uchida, Three Opinions, digital collage, 2011.

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Toshiaki Uchida, Wasting Time, digital collage, 2011.

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K MACKOWICK

Born and raised in the blue collar oasis of Pittsburgh, PA amid dense green canopies, five hundred bridges, deep frozen arctic winters and sweltering tropical summers, K Mackowick’s art and life have been shaped by both their beloved home and locales thousands of miles away. Creating fantastical depictions out of the intriguing residual energies of other times and places captivates Mackowick, who draws inspiration from nature, the elements, cultural icons and archetypes, apocalyptic imagery, colors, adventure, the road, and the emotions surrounding people and relationships. Amongst everything else.

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K Mackowick, a-glimpse, collage, 2012.

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K Mackowick, aurora, collage, 2012.

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K Mackowick, candyland, collage, 2012.

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K Mackowick, fire-in-the-hole, collage, 2012.

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K Mackowick, imminence, collage, 2012.

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k Mackowick, Intergalactic, digital collage, 2012.

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K Mackowick, san-francisco-sq uiggler, collage, 2012.

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ARI CHÁVES CHACÓN

She was Born in Cuernavaca, Mexico in 1988 and studied Spanish litera-ture. While she was studied, disco-vered a huge interest in other artistic disciplines, besides literature, like photography & films. From the inter-vention in photographs came out the idea of making collage, as a hobby, and later born the idea of making collage with just old magazines & news-papers. Inside her artistic “politic”, she likes the old school way of making collage, just with paper magazines, scissors and glue because “paper gives a unique texture & also a lot of melancholy”.

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Ari Cháves Chacón, Cities & skies, analogue collage, 2012.

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Ari Cháves Chacón, El mirador, analogue collage, 2012.

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Ari Cháves Chacón, Family trip, analogue collage, 2012.

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Ari Cháves Chacón, Happy together, analogue collage, 2012.

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Ari Cháves Chacón, Time to eat, analogue collage, 2012.

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Ari Cháves Chacón, Veterans day, analogue collage, 2012.

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Ari Cháves Chacón, We love you so, analogue collage, 2012.

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Ari Cháves Chacón, Childhood, analogue collage, 2012.

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LAILA MANIERI

Laila Manieri não pertence a um estilo específico, somente a uma técnica: a colagem. Percorre de maneira indepen-dente seu caminho ao mesmo tempo intelectual e emocional no terreno da colagem. Desde muito jovem tem este gosto de fazer recortes e colagens de diversas imagens, dando a ilusão de movimento e de recomposição da figura com contextos sociais, estéticos e pes-soais. Mas somente a partir de 2008 começou a construir seu estilo e a publicar suas obras. Atualmente mora em Porto Alegre/RS, onde tem criado novos olhares artísticos e da própria essência da arte em sua vida.

Laila Manieri does not belong to a specific style, but only one

technique: the collage. Travels independently its path both

intellectual and emotional on the collage ground. Since young age she

likes to do cutouts and collages of several images, giving the illusion

of movement and rearrangement of the figure with social, aesthetic

and personal contexts. But only since 2008 she began to set up her

style and to publish her artworks. She lives in Porto Alegre (Brazil),

where she has created new artistic looks and of the own essence of

art in your life.

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Laila Manieri, 1500, handmade collage, 2012.

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Laila Manieri, Ideias, handmade collage, 2012.

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Laila Manieri, Vícios de Vinícius, handmade collage, 2012.

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Laila Manieri, Evolução, handmade collage, 2011.

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Laila Manieri, Indagações, handmade collage, 2011.

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Laila Manieri, Palco, handmade collage, 2008.

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Laila Manieri, Penélope, handmade collage, 2008.

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Laila Manieri, Por quê?, handmade collage, 2011.

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Laila Manieri, Saudade, handmade collage, 2008.

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Laila Manieri, Sombra, handmade collage, 2011.

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ELLSAGUT

Meu nome é Samuel Oliveira mais conhecido como Ellsagut, nasci e cresci no interior de São Paulo, onde comecei a me interessar por ilustração e arte desde a minha infância ao entrar em contato com a street art. Em 2009 ingressei na faculdade de Design gráfico, a partir do que pude aprimorar e escolher o que realmente queria ser: ilustrador. Hoje trabalho como ilustrador freelancer e diagramador em uma agencia de publicidade.

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Ellsagut, Around the Mindbaixa, digital collage, s/d.

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Ellsagut, forweb, digital art, s/d.

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Ellsagut, garotabaixa, digital art, s/d.

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Ellsagut, Passarobaixa, digital art, s/d.

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IVANA MILOVANOVIC

Ivana Milovanovic is a collage artist from Belgrade, Republic of Serbia. She studied at University of Belgrade.

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Ivana Milovanovic, untitled, collage, s/d.

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Ivana Milovanovic, untitled, collage, s/d.

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Ivana Milovanovic, untitled, collage, s/d.

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Ivana Milovanovic, untitled, collage, s/d.

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Ivana Milovanovic, untitled, collage, s/d.

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NESTOW SAKACZBIA

Nestow Sakaczbia is a collage artist from Gdansk, Poland.

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Nestow Sakaczbia, inner child, collage, 2012.

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Nestow Sakaczbia, Superpig, collage, 2012.

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Nestow Sakaczbia, last wish, collage, 2012.

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Nestow Sakaczbia, spinning, collage, 2012.

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Nestow Sakaczbia, hunchbacked, collage, 2012.

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GIVEMEAWORK

Emidio Bernardone (also knows GIVEMEAWORK a.k.a. when I was GIVEMEAWORK) born in a small town in Abruzzo, he moved to Milan where he lives and works deals with graphic design, illustration and video plays in Canti In asociale (a rap group) specializing in both digital and manual collage is trying to realize his dream: become a Super Saiyan.

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Givemeawork, future in the water, collage, s/d.

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Givemeawork, headfull, collage, s/d.

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Givemeawork, R, collage, s/d.

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Givemeawork, tonight special, collage, s/d.

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Givemeawork, wishlist, collage, s/d.