" 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