COLLAGE ON VIEW
Banshee America
Kolaj 29 cover artist David Crunelle at Zedes Art Gallery in Brussels, Belgium through 30 August 2020. Every family has its banshee, which follows it wherever it goes, even when it embarks for the New World. The Irish people and their supernatural guardian powers have thus irrigated America. Alas, years of over-consumption, self-glorification and various fanaticisms have taken their toll on the hearing of the great-grandchildren of Irish migrants. Few still hear the dire omens of their banshee. Folk quilt-like decompositions, coloured parasites, masking with India ink, and collage techniques are used to indicate the fragility of a world that is more dead than alive. MORE
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Kolaj Magazine, a full colour, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.
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