Máximo Tuja admits to being a restless person. “I’m restless, very curious and I’m really open to mistakes,” he once remarked Another Fine Mess. But there’s a silver lining to be found, as he redirects this restless energy into his collage art.
Also known as Max-o-matic, Tuja’s collage art has been exhibited far and wide, in cities like Barcelona, London, Madrid, New York, and Tokyo. He also collaborates regularly with brands, with selected clients including Nike, Spotify, and Universal Pictures.
“Organizing chaos is the main task of any collage artists,” says the Barcelona-based collage artist. “From millions of possible images (a universe of chaos), we decide to use only a few and combine them in a particular way to make our discourse visible through them. We are editors of reality and builders of new worlds. We are twisting the world we know to make a new one come to life.”
But sometimes the chaos becomes overwhelming, in which case, Tuja tries to find order within it. “I love to work with limits,” he says. “Most of the time I invent secret (and stupid) rules of production to create my collages. Collages created with 3 pieces and two main colors; collages created with the letters B-D of an encyclopedia and a skate magazine… these are some rules that I impose on myself to create collage series.”
According to Tuja, limits are boosters of creativity. See for yourself.
