Cut Me Up Issue 7: Solve Et Coagula
38 Pages
$14

Cut Me Up Issue 7: Solve et Coagula, curated by Enrique “Kike” Congrains, is a selection of 18 artworks that explore collage as alchemy.

Solve et Coagula

Solve et coagula is a maxim or motto of alchemy which means “dissolve and coagulate”. It means that something must be broken down before it can be built up. Solve refers to the breaking down of elements and coagula refers to their coming together. This transmutation process contained both literal and metaphorical meaning: it could be analogous to the destruction of one’s ego before the realization of the true self, or the distillation of a substance down to its prime elements to make alchemical preparations.

In its purest form, collage is alchemy: a power that transforms something by destroying and merging components together from multiple sources into a new creation.

– Enrique “Kike” Congrains, Artist and educator

About Cut Me Up:
Cut Me Up is a participatory magazine of visual call and response founded by Andrea Burgay. Each issue presents a call—a curated selection of original collage images that will become raw material for reader-artists to respond by cutting, reconfiguring, and transforming them into new artworks. The newly created responses will form the content of the next issue.

Issue 7 Cover Artist:
John Rigney

Issue 7 Artists:
Patty Armstrong
Lu Beard
Susana Belen
Michelle Bowers
Celia Crane
Vicki Davenport
Ben DiNino
Beth Guipe Hall
Alejandra Koreck
Iain Machell
Anthony Naimo
Michael Pajón
Rhondra Ratray
Billy Renkl
John Rigney
Laurent Seljan
Lisa Sheets
Vanessa Vargas