COLLAGE ON VIEW
Paul Loughney at Jane’s Room in New York, New York, USA by 20 October 2024. Paul Loughney’s collages inhabit an area between abstraction and figuration, anthropology and storytelling, cultural and private myths: the place perception mingles with magical considering. Using panorama and portrait as a degree of departure, he considers it a sort of visible anchor permitting him to pursue themes pervasive all through his photographs: psychological, psychedelic, erotic undertones; trafficking in esoteric and occult symbols; the phantasm of inconceivable conditions. Simultaneous narratives are a desired outcome. He approaches collage from an intuitive course of, making an attempt to create photographs like visible hallucinations, a type of delirium, all of the whereas pursuing that intimate area between viewer and picture, and creating an expertise that rewards gradual wanting. It’s important that the viewer is aware of the work is by hand. Learn Extra
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Kolaj Journal, a full colour, print journal, exists to point out 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.