1. 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
2. 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)
3. 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)
4. 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
6. 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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17. 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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28. 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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39. 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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40. Pd Lietz, I beseech you, photo, drawing and digital art, 2011.
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42. Pd Lietz, Of Mice and Men, photo, drawing and digital art, 2012.
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43. Pd Lietz, Setting the Scope, photo, drawing and digital art, 2012.
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44. Pd Lietz, Shit Storm, photo, drawing and digital art, 2012.
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45. Pd Lietz, The concert, The dance, photo, drawing and digital art, 2012.
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46. Pd Lietz, The Conversation, photo, drawing and digital art, 2012.
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47. 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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48. Musta Fior, The Little Dancer (first series), cut paper collage, 2010.
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49. Musta Fior, The Thief and The Girl Call (first series), cut paper collage, 2010.
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57. Musta Fior, Just look there! (second series), cut paper collage, 2012.
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58. 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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69. 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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70. 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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71. Josie Beszant, I Wear her Dress, old map, handmade papers, book papers, musicsheets, threads,
photograph, 2010.
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73. Josie Beszant, The Red Shoes, photograph, watch, music sheets, acrylic, silver leaf, 2010.
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74. Josie Beszant, Sea Blue Eyes, photograph, maritime map, book paper, 2012.
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75. 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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76. Josie Beszant, The Dancer, photograph, threads, diary pages, lace, pattern paper, music sheets,
chain, ink, acrylic, 2012.
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77. Josie Beszant, St. Ann Pray For Us, photograph, ticket, map, religious medal, deeds, acrylic, 2012.
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78. 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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84. 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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95. 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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106. 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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114. 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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124. 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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133. 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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139. 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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146. 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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157. 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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162. Femke Van Der Rijst, Portrait of Judit, collage, 2012.
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163. Femke Van Der Rijst, Untitled#01, collage, 2010.
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164. Femke Van Der Rijst, Untitled#02, collage, 2012.
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165. Femke Van Der Rijst, Untitled#03, collage, 2012.
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166. Femke Van Der Rijst, Untitled#04, collage, 2012.
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167. Femke Van Der Rijst, Untitled#05, collage, 2012.
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168. 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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179. 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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190. 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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198. 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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207. 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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218. 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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235. 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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