COLLAGE ON VIEW
Collage by Robbie Morgan on the Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 16 August-6 October 2024. Bywater Second Saturday Gallery Stroll: 14 September 2024, 6-9PM. Made within the months main as much as the artist’s fortieth birthday, “Superior Wound Therapeutic Methods” is a group of collage made with private pictures that had been destroyed in a sequence of fires that happened when artist Robbie Morgan was 24 years outdated. Within the intervening sixteen years, the artist carted round these pictures, shifting them from dwelling to dwelling, storing them, sometimes reflecting on them. The collages communicate to trauma, destruction, reminiscence and the way, as we age, we make sense of issues. The artist wrote, “The collective assemblage allowed me to hook up with these recollections in a approach that I wouldn’t have in any other case been in a position to if I hadn’t made this work.“ Learn Extra
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Kolaj Journal, a full colour, 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 pondering. To know collage is to reshape one’s pondering of artwork historical past and redefine the canon of visible tradition that informs the current.