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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·2021-12-13

TWS Broadcast. S02E03. Diane Meyer: Photography, embroidery, memory.

Diane Meyer is a Los Angeles based artist whose work combines photography and embroidery, creating mixed media objects that questions the idea of memory, our construction of history and our relationship with the past. Her artworks are part photography and part hand-stitched pixelated color patterns that at the same conceal...

Exhibtions & Workshops (In RANDOM ORDER)

Editors - Curators Interviews IWC SHOWS

·2023-11-09

Altered Logistics: D. Dominick Lombardi and Max-o-matic talk about the process of curating a collage exhibition.

The curators of Altered Logistics, an exhibition exploring Contemporary Collage and Appropriation Art, initiated an email conversation to...

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 Sound

·2018-02-08

Maxwell Sterling´s mix for International Weird Collage Show London

Since he was the only one performing music and not being a visual artist, Maxwell Sterling was our...

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

John Gall: books, scissors, paper and and ever evolving visual exploration.

Designer, artist and cut and paste maestro John Gall talks about his career and his latest book, Collages 2008-2018. – You have recently published John Gall Collages 2008-2018, collecting work from the last ten years. Did the process of creating the book gave you another perception / perspective of your...

Classics

·2013-05-15

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3 x EUROPE