The collages of Lisbon based Cristiana Couceiro are pretty sumptuous, I love the subtle use of color and transparency with some vintage black and white photographs, it adds a nice touch of modernism…

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French artist Thomas Lelu’s artwork is really original – Here is a review of 3 series of his work, entitled Pinup, Playmate and Mgzn in hi-res ~ exclusivity for CyanaTrendLand .

Born and based in Paris, Thomas Lelu is a writer and artist represented by the Dominique Fiat Gallery in Paris, He is also the new Art Director of PLayBoy France. For those painting, Thomas used acrylic paints on some vintage erotic magazines – And if you are in Paris you can go check the exhibit at the Fiat gallery [11am to 7pm - 16, rue des Coutures Saint-Gervais 75003 Paris]

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As a digital media artist based in Germany, the portfolio work of Jann de Vries is extensive, but it is his deconstructed collage works that particularly stand out. He takes existing photos from various fashion journals and magazines to create a new reality, hence the name Wirklichkeit, translated as Reality. This should entice you to check out the rest of his portfolio.

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In the artists Studio, Gabi Trinkaus is surrounded by thousands of paper snippets out of fashion magazines. Trinkaus has called herself a “medium thief”, cutting up high brightness magazines into small parts, using the pictures of our desires from magazines to create her portraits and city landscapes that make references to the aesthetics of advertising and the media that surrounds us in or everyday lives. From far her images look different than when you get close and see how the collage breaks at points to meet her pencil lines, creating an obstruction of the depth,  exposing a dismantling of our perceptions of reality.

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