I've talked about Dilar's collage before, when I was talking about collage-a-day blogs (she does the daily collage project). I think it's really interesting that she makes so many collages on such a regular basis, and I see that she's been partcipating in the 6 x 6 group as well. This means there is rarely consistency of the types of materials in her work, and this is a good thing--it shows her versatility!
Dilar Pereira
http://dailycollageproject.blogspot.com
Lisboa, Portugal
Q: Describe your work in 10 words or less.
A: A practice of plastic improvisation.
Q: What do you like to work with (magazines, photographs, vintage)? Be specific!
A: Concerning collages I use all kind of stuff, collectable materials, mix-up of ephemeral found papers (tickets, postcards, magazines, papers of all kinds, fabric, stamps, flat found objects, etc.)
Q: How long have you been creating collages and what made you start?
A: Despite I always have been using the application of multiple kinds of materials in my work, all the process went through the application of mixed media techniques, appealing to collage, oil or acrylic and to dry mediums (as pens, colored pencil, waxes, pastel, and another ones). The use of collage as pure technique dates back to September 2006, with the creation of the Daily Collage Project.
Q: Are you solely an artist, or do you work in another profession?
A: I do work in another profession, I'm teaching in the field of visual arts.
Q: Do you have any formal art training?
A: I started to be autodidact when I was 15 years old. A few years later I got a formal education in arts. First in Visual and Technological Education (Lisbon's Master School of Education) and Drawing (National Society of Fine Arts). Later I got a MD in Art Theory, and nowadays I'm doing another MD in Drawing, both at Fine Arts Department of Lisbon's University.
Q: Explain your favourite techniques.
A: Collage and several techniques on drawing.
Q: Describe your favourite piece ever created.
A: That's a good question, I never thought about it... I think my favorite piece really is the Daily Collage Project. Why? Because it's a project thought as whole one, a conceptual idea in progress whose goal is create a new small size collage every day and post it on the internet through blog format. The relation word-image, the enclosure of commercial and typographic elements, the scale and the juxtaposition of different textures and shapes, it's what I'm going after with it.
Q: What other artists do you admire?
A: Picasso above all, also Joseph Cornell, Kurt Schwiters, David Hockney. Leonardo da Vinci, a classic. Some portuguese artists too, as Júlio Pomar (1926-), Rogério Ribeiro (1930-2008), Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (1887-1918), Jorge Vieira (1922-1998) or Paula Rego (1935-).
Thanks Dilar!
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i love these collages! thanks for the interview :)))
meg
Dilar rocks! :)
keep up the good work,Dizzz!!!
ainda tou a espera da minha colagem!!
ass.jorge(óónnnóóóriioo)