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Hot Off The Press:100 New Postcards

The original collage here.

Why we do what we do?

It was always interesting for me to know how and why other artists do what they do, and I am not afraid sometimes to ask it. Today, thanks to an invitation from Sabine Remy, my collage-collab friend and blogger of the Miriskum, I get to share my own creative process in an around-the-world blog hop. 

Everyone in the hop answers the same 4 questions:




What am I working on?


My life is a permanent creative process.
 I am working at the time on two collage books in collaborations with other artists, on my assembling magazine „22“, make a lot of objects for other assembling projects and I am working permanently an a narrative collages book since 2008. 
I am collage artist, but also a mail artist, so I send weekly at the minimum 2-4 postcards, mini booklets, artiststamps to my networker buddies.

New pages to "22"

How does my work differ from others of its genre?


The Eye (2014)

I have no idea. I´m afraid not at all.
The magic words are cut and paste.
The key: what and how we paste. In which relations.
It is very important for me to generate visual surprises. Also humour is for me a significant factor.
My favourite collagists have apart from manual accomplishments and a good assorted image collection, a huge mass of humour too.





Why do I create what I do?


Creativity is a way of life for me and making collages is sometimes a tool for me, to understand myself.
I enjoy the process from the snips of paper to a picture very well. Things never turn out the way you expect. From a special point comming suddenly new details from all directions, and I will re-experience this moment  ever and ever. That makes me addictive.

   
How does your creating process work?
  

In essence, everything can be turned into art...
 said György Galantai in 1968, artist and founder of the Art Research Center Artpool/Budapest.

 In the last years I asked some artist friends of mine, how they work.
 Most of them said, they already see the picture they will make.
 Or they have more or less an idea about the ready picture. 
I have not. 
To make a collage - for me  - needs not preparation. If I found an interesting 
image cut, paper snippet etc., the inspiration comes fast as a sneesing, but that follows a very focused, intensive working, sometimes hours long. I like the collab with other collagists very well too. I send or receive starters to add. We made recently cool series in this way with Sabine Remy from Germany and Allan Bealy from the USA. It is an amazing moment, if somebody developes my idea further and shoots it into an other direction.



Next week, be sure to stop by my fellow hoppers
 to see how they answer the same questions:

 
Carol Reid / Canada
Mónika Csete / Hungary

Svenja Wahl / Germany 


Daily Post: My Collages by Tonerworks 2011

A parcel from Reed Altemus!!

See all works on Susannia Bildschneiderei

My Collages by Tonerworks 2011

Susanna Lakner -The Papertailor of Susannia
5.5x8.5" booklet, stitched w/staples, edition of 75 copies
16 full color pages of works by the collage diva from Stuttgart Germany
$8.00US postage paid

TONERWORKS
or order by mail from:
Reed Altemus
Tonerworks
P.O.Box 5052, Portland, ME 04101 USA

Peace Cranes from Stuttgart to Japan

There's a story told in Japan that if you make a thousand origami Peace Cranes, you or someone you love will be healed.

 Young and old folded origami cranes on the
Königstrasse in the city of Stuttgart.

Exhibition in Budapest

Meghívó / Invitation

A Magyar Műhely Galéria
szeretettel meghívja

Czető Bea – Lakner Zsuzsa – Lux Antal

A MATRICÁK elektrográfiai kiállítás 2007-es nívó-díjasainak kiállítása

Megnyitja: Haász Ágnes képzőművész, a MET elnöke

Megnyitó: 2010. június 23. szerda 18 óra
A kiállítás megtekinthető: 2010. július 16-ig
munkanapokon 10–17 óráig.

Az MMG támogatói:
Nemzeti Kulturális Alapprogram, RÁCIÓ KIADÓ

MMG
Magyar Műhely Galéria
1072 Budapest, Akácfa utca 20.
tel./fax: +36-1-321-4757
www.magyarmuhely.hu

Invitation

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina Fourth International Biennale for the Artist's book

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina Fourth Biennale
for the Artist’s book



Artists
ARGENTINA: Nito Vega - AUSTRALIA: Philippa Don  - CHINA: Julie Chen - CROATIA: Josip Butkovic , Ana Vivoda - DENMARK: Hanne Matthiesen , Malone Dietrich - EGYPT: Bilal Mekkled , Sahar Dourgham , Helmy Eltony - FRANCE: Julien Blaine , Martin MIGUEL -  AUSTRIA: Wilhelm Schramm  GERMANY:   Dorothea Fleiss , Susanna Lakner - HUNGARY: András Butak – JORDAN: Khaled Alhamzah , Mohamed Shaqdeeh - POLAND: Pawel Petasz - PORTUGAL: Fernando Aguiar , José Oliveira , Emerenciano Rodrigues - RUSSIA: Gunel Yuran , Mikhail Pogarsky  - SOUTH AFRICA: Stephan ERASMUS , David Murray Paton , Robyn Sassen - SPAIN: Brunhilde Heym , Antonio Gomez Garcia - SWEDEN: Kajsa Gustafsson, Helena LAukkanen - SWITZERLAND: Catherine Bolle - SYRIA: Ismail Elrefaey - THE NETHERLANDS: Puck Bramlage - TURKEY: Sümer Sayin , Nuzhet Merve Etrufan , Ipek Duben - U.A.E: Najat Mekky - UK: Sarah Bodman , Sumi Perera , Tom Sowden - USA: Laura Davidson , Kumi Korf , Pamela Spitzmueller - VENZUELA: Luis Alberto Hernandez

Artists’ Books ARCHIVE – Milan - Italy
Italy : Giuseppe BECCA,  Mirella BENTIVOGLIO, Anna BOSCHI,  Claudio CALZAVACCA,Vito CAPONE,  Gianni DE TORA, Virginia FAGINI, Fernanda FEDI, Rosa FOSCHI, Mavi FERRANDO, Gio FERRI, Gino GINI, Oronzo LIUZZI, Ruggero MAGGI, Federica MANFREDINI, MONTARULI/VIZZINI , Luca M.PATELLA, Michele PERFETTI, Gloria PERSIANI, G.Paolo ROFFI,Stefano SODDU, Anna VANCHERI, Rodolfo VITONE, Walter VALENTINI –  France: Claude GARRANDES, Pierre JOINUL, WEISBUCH – United States : Bea LICATA  -Australia : Alexander HAMILTON – Canada : Brad BRACE – Japan: Ryosuke COHEN – Russia : Evelina SCHATZ

La Diane Française – Nice – France
France : Marcel ALOCCO, Thomas BILANGES , Michèle BRONDELLO, Muriel DESAMBROIS  Didier GASC, Michel GJELSTRUP, Marc LAVALLE , André MASSON, PASO , Pascal-Olivier REYNAUD - 
Allemagne :  Eric MASSHOLDER, Jasmin GENZEL –
Serbia : Miljan TIHOJEVITCH – Russia: Serge SERGHEIEV -  
Switzerland: Laurent GUENAT -
Italy: Giuseppe BECCA,  Fernanda FEDI,  Paolo FRASCATI, David MARINOTTO. William XERRA –  
The Netherlands:Toos van HOLSTEIN

My Objectbook for the Biennale

Music:Ryuichi Sakamoto Tokyo Story