This Week on The Weird Show

·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 seen images of his collages online, where fragmented luxury goods and models, arranged in intricate grid formations, appeared seamlessly composed, leading me to assume digital processes were at play. Later,...

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 more than just cutting and pasting paper. The selection of work included photography, painting, sculpture, performance, music, digital, video and paper. We asked artist and writer Todd Bartel to write an introduction for the exhibition’s catalog to reflect the spirit...

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...

Interviews The Sources

·2024-05-26

The Sources: Fred Free: Materials are Immaterial (kind of)

Text by Fred Free Over the last thirty-plus years of making collages I’ve tried everything. In the early 90s when...

IWC SHOWS Selected

·2024-05-17

Los Raros. Las Raras. New Narratives in Contemporary Collage

More than a century after Picasso and Braque introduced collage into art, this medium has undergone a radical evolution. This...

Interviews The Sources

·2024-04-28

Jack Felice: The Sources. Making new connections and creating space.

Text by Jack Felice. To me, one of the great allures of collage is the endless search for the right...

Interviews The Sources

·2024-04-15

The Sources. Robert Voigts: Lift: To steal something. To move something from a lower to a higher position

Text by Robert Voigts I have been an art raw material collector ever since I went off to university to...

Weekly inspiration (Curated by CLess)

Weekly Inspiration

·2024-07-01

Weekly Inspiration: Anastasia Savinova

Weekly Inspiration

·2024-06-24

Weekly Inspiration: Tim Klein

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·2022-08-29

TWS Broadcast: S02E09: Omar Barquet Ghosts, Hurricanes and Sheer Freedom

Omar Barquet is a Mexican artist based in Mexico City. Born in the Caribbean city of Chetumal, Barquet’s upbringing, surrounded by wildlife, family, music and the sheer force of nature, made his curiosity a way of relating to the environment, and his childhood, marked by hurricanes, freedom, chaos and joy,...

Exhibtions & Workshops (In RANDOM ORDER)

IWC SHOWS Selected

·2016-08-23

Int´nl Weird Collage Show, Trondheim, 2016

Int´nl Weird Collage Show, Trondheim, 2016 Featuring art from: Alan Ganev (Canada), Andre Bergamin (Brazil), Anna Katrin Karlsson...

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

·2023-11-07

Altered Logistics: Contemporary Collage and Appropriation Art Altered Logistics. Cortland, New York, Nov. 2023.

Altered Logistics is an international exhibition with works of art by nearly 50 artists that apply a fresh...

STUDIO VISITS

Edgard Barbosa: Grids, Sources, and Visions

Reflections On Nature —Todd Bartel’s Artist Residency at Weir Farm (Part 2/2)

Selected stuff

TWS Broadcast: S02E08: John Gall. The art of unlearning design

There are few names in the collage scene (if we can speak of a scene, but that’s another story) that almost all of us agree belong to the prestigious category of a contemporary classic. John Gall is definitely one of them. Although his main work is related to book cover...

Classics

·2020-01-07

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