schrieck
Collage Art
2018
KAOS Festival of Contemporary Collage - Kranj (Slovenia)
Layer house, Mergentaler gallery, hosted the first Slovenian festival of contemporary collage. From 29th of June to 14th of August a set of artistic events changed the Kranj old town into a multilayered conglomerate of colours, ideas and variety of expressions. The main exhibition of KAOS Festival hosted contemporary collage artists which displayed the variety of understanding and use of collage technique on the international level.
Schrieck statement for KAOS Festival:
Collage is easy to feel,
Collage don't need Art bullshit blahblah to be understood
Collage is for everyone
Collage is recycling
Collage is fragile
Collage is fun
Collage isn't necessary easy to do
Collage is a journey
Go to the KAOS festival website
2017
4th Collagistas Festival - 2017 Milano,
36th participant of CF4 is SCHRIECK from Belgium. He did his first collage in 94 during his ending year of Political Sciences study at the University of Brussels. He has never stopped since. After living in Montreal (Québec), he settled down in France in 2006, deep in the french Alps mountains, as a graphic designer. He made his first collage exhibition in Annecy in 2008. In 2015, the National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC) awarded and featured one of his collage work. His collage are mostly the result of happy accidents and controlled chaos. But mainly he loves to explore techniques, shapes, styles and colours he never experienced before. He is addicted to the surprise of the final glue!
On this occasion, he will show an exclusive piece of artwork on the theme Beautiful Monsters.
Go to Collagistas Festival website
2015
Artwork selected and featured by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (Washington DC)
2008 - Le Dauphiné (France)
Les Recycollages sont issus d'une première étape de compostage visuel alimenté par l'accumulation d'une multitude d'images et de signes visuels qui me tombe sous la main. De ce grand fouillis j'extrais au gré du temps des amalgames d'images recomposées tant par le hasard que par une volonte préméditée. Cette phase brute est alors suivie d’une intervention minutieusement artisanale de découpe, assemblage et fixation. Précision délibérée pour effacer toutes traces et générer par là une image illusoire, une réalité analogique trouble qui force à se rapprocher, à scruter, à découvrir et finalement j'espère à s'interroger.
Ce qui m'interesse c'est l'inversion du sens premier des composants et produire un sens nouveau, inattendu, improbable... un sens recyclé.