The paper scale models and installations are primarily made with the intention of being photographed.
Some continue to exist as sculptures.
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PAPER MODELS
They are mostly created to photograph.
Some continue to exist as a sculpture.
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Despite the limitations of paper/cardboard as a material, one can see the richness of the possibilities opened up by this medium, a world to scale is cut and pasted with virtuosity.
The typical characteristics of the working material and its limited applications create an equivalence that makes all representations more homogeneous. It is also fragile and fleeting.
The artist imitates and fantasizes, manipulates and depicts things that are familiar to her. The objects undergo the metamorphosis of transformation into a new existence in another skin of paper.
To what extent can reality be imitated? Perhaps making a scale model of reality is the best way to come to grips with this fundamentally elusive phenomenon. In architecture, models help to clarify structures and provide spatial insight. A scale model of a building provides a more compact and therefore often more powerful image than the building itself, which cannot be grasped at a glance. A scale model also eliminates unnecessary detail. It seeks to represent the essence.
by Jan de Nys, curator Stedelijk Museum Aalst, Belgium
from the publication: 'Contemporary art at scale'
published to accompany the exhibition as part of the 2008 Paper Biennial, Stedelijk Museum, Aalst (B).
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Despite the limitations of paper/cardboard as a material, one can see the richness of the possibilities opened up by this medium, a world to scale is cut and pasted with virtuosity.
The typical characteristics of the working material and its limited applications create an equivalence that makes all representations more homogeneous. It is also fragile and fleeting.
The artist imitates and fantasizes, manipulates and depicts things that are familiar to her. The objects undergo the metamorphosis of transformation into a new existence in another skin of paper.
To what extent can reality be imitated? Perhaps making a scale model of reality is the best way to come to grips with this fundamentally elusive phenomenon. In architecture, models help to clarify structures and provide spatial insight. A scale model of a building provides a more compact and therefore often more powerful image than the building itself, which cannot be grasped at a glance. A scale model also eliminates unnecessary detail. It seeks to represent the essence.
by Jan de Nys, curator Stedelijk Museum Aalst, Belgium
from the publication: 'Contemporary art at scale'
published to accompany the exhibition as part of the 2008 Paper Biennial, Stedelijk Museum, Aalst (B).