THE WEEKENDER 26 | 2026

“Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it”

― Alain de Botton

The latest collage news and inspiration!

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• Though trained as a painter, Sparagana has, since the early 2000s, lassoed the readymade image in the service of resolutely unreproducible gridded collages which call to mind the pixelated look of degraded JPEGs, medieval wall tapestries and Byzantine mosaics alike. ‘Interference Patterns’ at Benton Museum of Art in Claremont, Sparagana’s first survey, charts the artist’s surgical interest in the deconstruction of the image. - The Chic, Ominous Collages of John Sparagana - via Frieze

• Tyler Spangler describes his own work as "like a rainbow-flavoured popsicle dipped in the ocean and placed on a rock to melt", which is pretty much spot on. The Southern California designer makes maximal, candy-coloured digital collages that are loud, fun and a little bit unhinged, and they have carried him from booking punk shows in his own rented warehouse to a client list that today boasts Gucci, Hermès, Nike, Chanel and the United Nations. Not bad when you discover he got there without following the usual path. - Tyler Spangler turned punk shows and a psychology degree into candy-coloured chaos - via Creative Boom

• The exhibition brings together approximately 100 works spanning Basquiat’s career, from postcards and collages he created as a teenager to paintings, sculpture, photographs by Andy Warhol and personal ephemera gathered, all gathered from private collections. - Beyond the masterpieces: Bonnier Gallery explores the artist behind Basquiat - via Miami Herald

• Modou Dieng Yacine’s latest series, Untitled Protagonist, asks for more time with you. Vacant figures courageously face obscurity, and silhouettes recontextualize heroism. Collage-textured surfaces represent temporality under bodies composed with zooming color. - Modou Dieng Yacine Uses Rhythm to Integrate Absence and Identity - via Sugarcane

• To this process of collage and assembly, reminiscent of Robert Rauschenberg’s Combine Painting technique in its accumulation and juxtaposition of disparate elements, JR adds a final gesture: deliberate crumpling. The aim is to puff them up and give them volume. Photography, drawing, collage, and manual manipulation converge to create a seamless blend of two- and three-dimensional forms, once each element has been “mounted” on the zinc base. The result is a construction plan conceived not so much as a technical diagram but as a reverie of the finished work, the completed La Caverne du Pont Neuf as it will appear to the visitor-viewer. - JR’s fifth exhibition at Perrotin coincides with La Caverne du Pont Neuf, a monumental public artwork transforming Paris’s oldest bridge into an immersive cave-like installation from June 6–28, 2026. - via Art Plugged

• Au début des années 2000, elle a ajouté à ses dessins et peintures des collages aux multiples facettes. « Je me sens comme un chef d’orchestre en jouant avec l’énergie vibrante des couleurs que proposent les papiers faits main et les textures de l’écorce, du bambou, du parchemin… ». - « J’aime chercher de nouveaux procédés et méthodes dans mes créations » : une artiste de renom expose ses œuvres dans une chapelle de l’arrière-pays varois - via Nice Matin

• L’exposition « Collages, rêveries silencieuses » est actuellement visible à la Maison du Phare, à Port-Haliguen. Depuis de nombreuses années, Catherine Secret pratique l’art du collage avec passion. Pour créer ses œuvres, elle achète chaque mois de nombreuses revues d’art, mais collecte également d’anciennes publications, partitions musicales et cartes maritimes dénichées dans les vide-greniers. Munie de son stylo cutter et de sa paire de ciseaux fétiche, elle compose un univers poétique où les regards et les couleurs suscitent l’imaginaire et les émotions, pour inviter à la contemplation. - Les collages de Catherine Secret s’exposent à la Maison du Phare de Quiberon - via Le Télégramme

• A selection of challenge submissions from last week is up on our website and can be seen here, the image prompt for next week is available to download here

• Our 2026 Workbook is out and available for sale on our website. Our weekly creative challenge remains free and open to everyone and everything, digital or analog artists, French or not. The workbook is an optional add-on for those who prefer to work with paper and don’t want to print our images themselves. Like every year, the book is designed so that you can either take it apart or create your collages in the book itself. Week numbers and image sources are on the back of each image, so even if your books falls apart at one point, you will always know what’s what!

If you have any news about exhibitions, publications or events you want so share with the community, please send an email with all relevant information and at least one link to a website or venue to: hello@pariscollagecollective.com