COLLAGE ON VIEW
Christopher Marley on the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Artwork in Bentonville, Arkansas, USA by way of 29 July 2024. “Beautiful Creatures” is a three-dimensional exhibition that celebrates nature’s infinite selection. Created by artist and naturalist Christopher Marley, the present options greater than 400 particular person objects of preserved plant, animal, and mineral specimens, together with crystals, lizards, beetles, parrots, butterflies, crabs, and far more. The beautiful combine of colours and textures are organized in exact geometric compositions, making a mosaic of the pure world supposed to encourage surprise and foster a want for preservation. The exhibition is a dialogue with artwork, nature, and science that asks the query: what’s it in regards to the pure world that calls to us? Learn Extra
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Kolaj Journal, a full shade, print journal, exists to indicate how the world of collage is wealthy, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing historical past and tradition, collage artists forge new considering. To grasp collage is to reshape one’s considering of artwork historical past and redefine the canon of visible tradition that informs the current.