Last year, during my art foundation course, I came across many inspirational paper artists during our Sculpture module; artists such as:
Bert Simons
Simons realised in the mid 2000s, that there wasnt much of himself that could be left behind; and so he decided to 'clone' himself using paper. Sounds strange, yes, but his idea was actually ingenius.
Simons first sculpted his head using clay, then used photographs of his own skin to texturise the model.
I do not own this picture; taken from Bert Simons' website. |
Then, using 3D computer software, he 'flattened out' the skin into pieces of paper which could be printed out and then glued together to make the final 'Bert'.
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I do not own this picture; taken from Bert Simons' website. |
Peter Callesen
Peter Callesen is another highly inspirational paper artist, he really brings paper to life, mainly by bringing it literally out of the page. He works using a4 paper a lot of the time as he claims that "it is probably the most common and consumed media and format for carrying information today, and in that sense it is something very loaded" and that "we rarely notice the actual materiality of the A4 paper".
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I do not own this picture; taken from Peter Callesen's website. |
I do not own this picture; taken from Peter Callesen's website. |
The above work is called 'Down the River' and it's from 2005; it's amazingly intricate, and you can only really see by viewing a zoomed in picture of the sculpture that there is in fact, a boat floating down the beautifully sculpted river..
I do not own this picture; taken from Peter Callesen's website. |
You can see more of Callesen's work on his website, here.
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