Updating a series that has continued since its early days, cobird expands the possibilities of collage.

Collage is a technique of cutting out various photos, letters, pictures, etc. and pasting them together. It is a familiar art form that many people have probably seen at least once.

He is active as a contemporary artist.cobirdis an artist who has been presenting mainly collage works, which are formed by cutting printed paper into strips of lengthwise and crosswise, and inserting them one by one by hand in an alternating manner, like a textile structure.

The cobird is now offering a "mag-shot" titled "Mag-shot".Gallery MonthlyThe current exhibition at the "Magshot Project" features works that expand on the series of mugshots (arresting photographs) that the artist has been creating since the beginning of his career, as well as works from the "Magshot Project," in which he actually takes portraits of existing people and collages them together in the same way. The exhibition will also feature works from the "Magshot Project," a collage of actual portraits of existing people.

I have been working with existing images and using sampling-based collage techniques.
It was a natural choice for me, having been influenced by street culture, especially hip-hop and rap music.
However, as he became immersed in this world, he also became flatly interested in art history and context,
I felt connected to Papier Collet, the founder of collage, and even cubism, and felt saved.
The main axis of this exhibition is not so much an homage to cubism or hip-hop, but rather an act of repeated calculations using my own formula for beauty, in which the ruthless cut-and-paste method is innate.
At the same time, he is trying to derive from himself a rude but wild individuality, like a beatjack that can only be recorded on a mixtape.
For me, a work of art is a collection of small spaces like a woven tissue, a figuration and abstraction of geometry clothed in time, and a contemporary painting in which everyone can mix various elements beyond time and space.
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As this statement says, it is no exaggeration to say that this exhibition expands the possibilities of collage.

Object_Leo（ALI / Musician) @guerrilla_works Photo_Takao OKB

Object_Motoko Marui（Graphic Artist / Art Director) @_motty_　Photo_Takao OKB

Object_Xiangyu (Musician) @xiangyu_day　Photo_Takao OKB

We invite you to view a new world of portraits created by photographing and collaging people who are expressing the present.