indian collages......chennai 2009 and kerala 2013

on our last trip to india in 2009 we spent 10 days at the artists village in cholomandal south of chennai........i had almost no kit....except the posters that i tore from the walls along the main road into chennai......some collages were made in my sketchbook.......plus some bigger unglued collages on the floor of the studio......when we left the village i left quite a lot of clothes behind so i could bring back many of the posters.......in feb 2013 we are off to kochi in kerala....to visit the biennale....and to make a few collages along the way.....also collecting some more indian tunes and maybe some vinyl......

watch this space for more unglued stuff

a wacki video

in the studio....cholomandal

a possible book.......random images and text...october 2012

book equals..........

book/bo͝ok/

 

Nou

A written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. book n. Abbr. b., B., bk.1. A volume made up of written or printed pages fastened along one side and encased between protective covers.2. Any written or printed literary work. 3. A bound volume of blank or ruled pages. 4. Plural. Volumes that are mysterious, filled with wisdom and wonders just waiting to be read. "In a book the artist controls the combinations and ordering of different bits of information." David J. Henry what is A booK?  The  definition ConTinUES 2 bLuR......... i have been playing around  with ideas that  started with my Random viSual PoEms series........

i am now experimenting with ideas in my sketchbook and in the studio...at the moment the images are on the page which is hinged....they are sequential......i have cut windows in some pages to reveal a part of another page....i am now thinking about a more interactive set of images ....on paper but not hinged....the reader can put them in any order......they might tell a different story......here is my sketchbook book......so far.....

charlie @ vinyl exchange ....manchester

Free for Arts 2012

Charlie Holt @  Vinyl Exchange...Oldham Street......Manchester....

show runs from october 19......shop opening times......

"Possible record sleeves"

Independent record shops have been in sharp decline from their heydays in the 60s and 70s......they where places to hang out...listen to the latest music.....I went the "Spinning Disc" in Rochdale.......gone.....the top ten was important...then bang the arrival of the www.....downloads....high rents etc....have all played there part.....these shops are more than shops....they are watering holes for music addicts....you met your mates......the big chains never had this......if we want to keep these oases of music culture then we must support them....." the last shop standing".....a recent publication by Graham Jones....which is now a film...that traces the rise and fall of these much cherished bits of English culture......they are emporiums of musical treasure....Jones efforts are truly homemade...hand built from start to finish....written with affection.....

This small exhibition @ Vinyl Exchange  is my small contribution In helping their survival......the works on show are entitled..." Possible record sleeves".....altered images......recycled covers given a new lease of life.....
Please visit these shops....watch the video.......buy the book.....more important buy a record or CD.......if you don't then we lose them forever....

Have a look............lastshopstanding.com

at this point duncan had no idea that he featured on the sleeve

duncan hangs himself....not literally

russ joins in the hanging

ch loading a sleeve......notice the empty space on the wall....duncans space

this is an ongoing series.....russ gave me another pile of empty sleeves

" cut and paste".....a collage show @ Espirito Santo ...Loule

The  Private view is at 7pm on August 25

Espirito Santo Galeria....Loule

This is a show that celebrates " Collage"....in 1912 Picasso added a real object to a painting......adding a new reality....until then reality had been  a painted illusion...painting had been a window on the world.....initially they used everyday objects such as newspapers...text was important to both Picasso and Braque.....this simple idea opened up new possibilities for artists to create images....letters had been used in previous works such as the Portuguese Guitar player by Braque....the artists stencilled letters and words....conjuring up cafe posters seen in Paris....Picassos father used to pin paper cut outs on a painting in progress....to try different combinations of colour and tone....." Still life with chair caning"....a turning point in art........it is the juxtaposition of realty and illusion....the caning on the cloth looks real...it is fake....Braque came up with the idea " papier colle"...the rest is history.....
This exhibition brings together 4 artists that are very different........but they all work with collage.......the four artists are Bota Filipe.....Nuno Viegas.....Mickael Toesca and myself........

Bota Filipe is going to make a Collage Installation in the gallery.......

Nuno Viegas will showing work both in the gallery and in the streets....based on his " Observadores " series.......

Mikael Toesca is showing a series of works which are mixed media on cardboard...

I am showing some large collaged canvases and a series of 50 small collages on canvas..........i have also produced a series of audio tapes that will be playing during the show.........sound collages...........Stuart Chalmers has kindly let me have some of his "Sound Collages...which also form part of the show......."

nuno viegas working @ policromia associacao cultural

bota filipe in his studio

charlie holt in the studio

here is a photographic diary of the evolution of the show

antonio dias preparing the walls for bota filipes intervention

" observadore" by nuno viegas

installation by bota filipe of magazines and newspapers acting as the raw material and seats.....plus charlies sound piece and collages .....

mikael toesca.....mixed media on cardboard box

" voices" collage on canvas 3 x 2.5 meters.....charlie h

a series of works in the streets around the gallery..." observadores"

" random visual poems".....20x20...on canvas...part of an ongoing series....charlie h

digital kollages 2012

this series of kollages follows the principle of the surreal game the exquisite corpse.....i have started with one image....then added to it.....then added to this image....and added to the next.......its plots the journey of an image morphing from one image to another.........the series will be added to regularly.........