The holiday issue of Elephant travels from S o Paulo to Tel Aviv, via LA and Cologne, talking to visual arts legends such as artist Ramond Pettibon and photographer Miron Zownir and icon builders and destroyers such as art director Tom Hingston, painter Wolfe Von Lenkiewicz, paper sculptor Jeff Nishinaka and conceptual artist Thomas Demand. We get scissors and glue out of the drawer and revisit the phenomenon of collage, taking a close look at how a variety of artists, commercial and not so commercial, are using it to create new realities. After all this activity, we head to Berlin, where we spend some quality time with the likes of Kim Hiorth y, Frank Hülsbömer and Fons Schiedon.PART I: STUDIO & OTHER VISITS LUDOVICA GIOSCIA COLOURFUL HEDONISM MAYA GOLD THE VIEW FROM ABOVE JOSEPH HART IN THE BROADEST SENSE GUTO LACAZ THE PHYSICS OF JUGGLING MONICA NARANJO URIBE WHERE HERE MEETS THERE PAPER DRAGONS THE ART OF JEFF NISHINAKA PAR II: RESEARCH NEWS FOR THE FLEA MARKET: THE ART OF COLLAGE Including work by & interviews with: Lou Beach, Cless, Simon Cook, Liam Crockard, Valero Doval, Joseba Elorza, James Gallagher, Silja Goetz, Eva Lake, Sam Lubics, Clara Mata, Brion Nunda Rosch, Julian Pacaud, Masha Rumyantseva, Brett Ryder, Mario Wagner, Jacob Whibley PART III: MEETINGS MY OWN PRIVATE BAUHAUS: MIKE MEIRÉ FACTORY by Katya Tylevich TOM HINGSTON AND THE LIMITS OF CONTROL by Marc Valli ART CHEMISTRY & THE INFINITE PLAY: THE ART & PLAY OF WOLFE VON LENKIEWICZ by Ana Ibarra ANOTHER EDITED FICTION: AN INTERVIEW WITH RAYMOND PETTIBON by Katya Tylevich PART IV: CITIES EARTHQUAKES IN BERLIN Katya Tylevich has a chilled beer with Cyan, Thomas Demand, Kim Hiorth y, Hort, Frank Hülsbömer, Pascal Johansson (Illustrative 2011), Robert Klanten (Gestalten), Hoc Littman (Monotypia), Fons Schiedon and Miron Zownir PART V: THOUGHTS (NOT FINAL) THE INTERNET & THE NILE (ART & EXPERIENCE) By Marc Valli