This Week on The Weird Show

·2024-12-02

As Is—Todd Bartel’s Exhibition at Sala 1, Rome Italy. An Interview by Andrea Burgay (Part 2)

All photos by Todd Bartel, unless otherwise noted. After his residency at the Salvatore Meo Foundation, covered in Part 1 of this interview (link), Todd Bartel’s As Is assemblages and interlocking collages were exhibited alongside Salvatore Meo’s assemblages, collages, and drawings at Sala 1 in March 2024. The curator who introduced Todd...

As Is—Todd Bartel’s Artist Residency at The Fondazione Salvatore Meo. An Interview by Andrea Burgay. (Part 1)

All photos by Todd Bartel. In March of 2022, collage-based artist Todd Bartel visited the studio of little-known collage and assemblage artist Salvatore Meo (Italian, b. Philadelphia 1914–2004 d. Rome). Mary Angela Schroth, the Artistic Director of Sala 1—Italy’s oldest non-profit art space—and the founder and President of the Fondazione Salvatore Meo, invited Bartel to develop a project to pair...

Interviews Selected

·2024-10-06

Cless: clear signs of obsession and other fantastic deviations.

It’s not an easy task to track down Cless. About 4 or 5 years ago, I sent him several questions...

An Intro to

·2024-09-16

Repetition, layers and scale. An intro to JMikal Davis

-Name: JMikal Davis -Born/Based: Born in Kansas City, MO, grew up in Atlanta, GA, and now live and work in...

Interviews Studio Visit

·2024-09-01

Edgard Barbosa: Grids, Sources, and Visions

By Andrea Burgay Before stepping into Edgard Barbosa’s studio, I encountered his work in two distinct ways. Initially, I had...

IWC SHOWS Selected

·2024-06-27

The Weird Ones—Mutable As Glue. Los Raros. Las Raras introduction by Todd Bartel.

Los Raros. Las Raras. New Narratives of Contemporary Collage exhibition had the main goal of showcasing that collage is way...

IWC SHOWS Selected

·2024-06-10

Los Raros. Las Raras. An exhibition told in 17 pictures and few more words.

On May 10th we opened “Los Raros. Las Raras. Nuevas Narrativas del Collage Contemporáneo” in Valladolid, Spain—the most ambitious exhibition we’ve done...

Interviews

·2024-06-03

collé interview: Max-o-matic x Los Raros. Las Raras

This week we’re not talking about an interview that we did, but about an interview that the amazing collé made...

Weekly inspiration (Curated by CLess)

Weekly Inspiration

·2024-12-16

Weekly Inspiration: Albert Oehlen

Weekly Inspiration

·2024-12-09

Weekly Inspiration: Susan Cianciolo

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Podcast Selected

·2021-05-12

TWS BROADCAST. EPISODE 09: MARK WAGNER: MONEY

Mark Wagner makes art with money. I mean, he literally makes very intricate collages made entirely from deconstructed US dollar bills. His art involves both an extremely precise craft and a highly conceptual approach, exploring with his work the intersection of wealth, power, value and American identity. During his career...

Exhibtions & Workshops (In RANDOM ORDER)

IWC SHOWS

·2011-08-26

Int´nl Weird Collage Show, Rotterdam, 2011

Int´nl Weird Collage Show, Rotterdam, 2011 A collective exhibition featuring Ashkan Honarvar, Cless, James Gallagher, Max-o-matic, Oliver Wiegner, Rubén...

IWC SHOWS

·2014-05-01

Int´nl Weird Collage Show, Montreal, 2014

Int´nl Weird Collage Show, Montreal, 2014 A collective exhibition featuring collage masterpieces from: Rubén B, Dennis Busch, Paul...

IWC SHOWS Selected

·2016-02-25

Int´nl Weird Collage Show, Barcelona, 2016

Int´nl Weird Collage Show, Barcelona, 2016 A collective exhibition featuring collage masterpieces from: Alan Ganev & François Ares...

STUDIO VISITS

As Is—Todd Bartel’s Exhibition at Sala 1, Rome Italy. An Interview by Andrea Burgay (Part 2)

As Is—Todd Bartel’s Artist Residency at The Fondazione Salvatore Meo. An Interview by Andrea Burgay. (Part 1)

Selected stuff

Switching roles: Max-o-matic gets interviewed by Fred Free after they’ve done just the opposite

During May 2021, our own Max-o-matic interviewed Fred Free for TWS’s DM conversations series. During that conversation, even though Fred Free was the one who had to answer, he wanted to know more about Max’s ideas and opinions. So once the interview was over he told Max: Now I want...

Classics

Classics Interviews

·2022-02-23

·2015-01-14

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