Appropriate to recriate. Daily collages/artworks from the best magazines around the globe.

In the visual arts, to appropriate means to adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (or the entire form) of man-made visual culture. The term appropriation refers to the use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work (as in ‘the artist uses appropriation’) or refers to the new work itself (as in ‘this is a piece of appropriation art’). The artist who uses appropriation may borrow image, sound, objects, forms or styles from art history or [(popular culture)] or other aspects of man made visual culture. Inherent in the process of appropriation is the fact that the new work recontextualizes whatever it borrows to create the new work. In most cases the original ‘thing’ remains accessible as the original, without change. And here’s it’s from Brazil, with love.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
IN 2004, HIS LOVE OF FASHION, PHOTOGRAPHY AND DESIGN LED ROMEU SILVEIRA TO CREATE U_MAG, AN ONLINE MAGAZINE, WHICH HAS ALREADY REACHED ITS 74TH EDITION. IN 2008, A LOVE OF COLLAGE ALSO LED HIM TO SET UP THE PROJECT FROM BRAZIL WITH LOVE. HIS LOVE FOR MAGAZINES BECOMES ‘DAILY’ ART. HE TAKES INSPIRATION FROM PAPER STANDS WORLDWIDE. FROM SOME OF THE MOST POPULAR AND BEAUTIFUL MAGAZINES IN THE WORLD. IN THE AUTHOR’S OWN WORDS, HE IS “RESTYLING THE ALREADY STYLED, WITHOUT POWER, CORRUPTION AND LIES.”DIY, AS HE CALLS IT. HIS METHOD IS VERY MUCH THE SAME ADOPTED BY PUNKS TO ASSEMBLE THEIR FANZINES, ONLY THAT HE RE-PROPOSES IT WITH A SUPER-CONTEMPORARY AND FAR GLOSSIER EDGE. ROMEU HAS ALWAYS HAD THE DESIRE TO RECREATE. STARTING FROM THE CONTOUR OF THE NATIONAL FLAG, WHICH HE KEEPS ‘ON HOME’. THE FLAG’S ORIGINAL COLOURS AND FORM HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY RESTRUCTURED. A METAPHOR OF HIS WORK IN A WAY; A NATIONAL FRAME TO FILL WITH NEW ELEMENTS…FORMING A FRESH VISION OF ‘ORDER AND PROGRESS’. (LANCIA TREND VISIONS, 2010)