DE VOLKSKRANT – V7 / MONDAY MARCH 1, 2021. Visual arts / IMAGE REPORT NEWSPAPER COLLAGES
When the newspaper falls on artist Hein Eberson’s mat, it never has to end up in the paper bin.
By Mark Moorman
The paper newspaper is written, laid out, provided with images, printed, delivered, read. And at the end of that chain it turns into waste paper. We will one day look back on it nostalgically, when the clatter of a letterbox early in the morning on a quiet street has become one of the forgotten sounds.
Of course, there are people who still keep clipping archives. Or who save newspapers as packaging material or to put at the bottom of the litter box (a function that is also sometimes cited by people who want to express their disdain for the medium). And then you have Hein Eberson, graphic designer and artist. For him, the newspaper that falls on the mat every morning is his material. Would he start tearing right away? Or would there also be reading? He makes collages from newspaper pages (many pages from this appendix, we were pleased to see). He looks for contrasts, for clashing colors, for a striking image that just needs a little push. Occasionally our V-cover is recycled, with the V being a clear guiding element in the new artwork.
“Together, the collages form an endless story, day after day,” Eberson writes. He is not, he says, looking for ‘a new story’. Formal considerations are leading. And at the end you have a newspaper page that you can hang on the wall.
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