“I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.”
— Anaïs Nin
I have to admit that I am weary of seeing the output of collage artists who glean from pornographic content and assemble images that generally fail to rise above the source material. It is a lazy way to shock at best and a mere trafficking in human objectification at worst. That being said, I do have a sincere regard for erotic minimalism, present throughout the full century of collage as an expressive medium. Needless to say, contemporary artists have kept the tradition alive — especially in Europe — and the best examples require no additional verbal explanation.
Nicola Kloosterman | Netherlands
Franz Falckenhaus | Poland
Beatrice Squitti | Italy
Una Gildea | Ireland
Erin Case | Michigan, USA
Miriam Tölke | Germany
Wim Maes | Belgium
Deborah Stevenson | Maine, USA
Alexander D’Haese | Belgium
Waldemar Strempler | Germany
Katrien De Blauwer | Belgium
Kerstin Deinert | Germany
Jaroslav Škojec | Czech Republic