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谁说剪纸只是小孩子的过气娱乐?丹麦有一位世界级的纸艺大师
彼得·卡罗森就被不少热衷发掘新奇玩意的网民奉为另类“潮人”——他的一双巧手可以用A4纸制作出各种惊人的立体纸雕,而且不会浪费一丁点儿纸碎!感兴趣的同学不妨到他的网站(www.petercallesen.com)欣赏一下^_^
I love paper. I love the look of paper, I love the feel of paper, and I love the smell of paper – of fresh newspaper, magazines, and books. Paper is the 1)substance that allows its possessor the ability to hold one’s most treasured thoughts in safekeeping. It is the substance that holds dear our greatest fears, our greatest loves, and our greatest triumphs, in the form of journals, 2)autobiographies, 3)treatise, and narratives. It is the medium that has formed and molded the world to the shape it is today.
Take a piece of A4 paper, just a normal ordinary blank one. You can write on it, draw on it, but also cut into it. Peter Callesen does so. Since 2004, he has been transforming 2D surfaces into 3D sculptures simply by means of a knife, some glue, a
super-creative mind and two super-talented hands. From the white surface of ordinary A4 paper, a magical universe arises. Stories are told without ever seeing the pen.
Callesen was born in 1967 in Denmark. He was schooled in Denmark and London in the fields of art and architecture. Although his name may not be immediately recognizable on this side of the globe, his work, thanks to the Internet, certainly is. I have seen his work many times over the years, but still, I have always been quite taken by the stories it tells and the 4)sheer 5)elegance of his designs. Although some of his pieces are highly complex while others appear rather simple in design, each 6)provokes thoughts and memories, forcing me to 7)contemplate their meaning.
“These playful performances exist in the lost land of childhood, between dream and reality,” Callesen said, “and it is in this meeting
or 8)confrontation of these two conditions, in a kind of 9)utopian 10)embodiment, that these works of art become alive, often in a 11)tragicomic way.”
Callesen’s large-scale performances are truly breathtaking, but I kind of prefer his delicate work on A4 paper. As the artist put it, “It is probably the most common and consumed media used for carrying information today. This is why we rarely notice the actual materiality
of the A4 paper. By taking away all the information and starting 12)from scratch, using the blank white A4 paper sheet for my creations,
I feel I have found a material that we are all able to relate to.”
我喜欢纸张。我喜欢纸的样子,喜欢纸的触感,还喜欢纸的味道——无论是新鲜出炉的报纸、杂志还是书籍的味道。纸是一种载体,让持有者保藏自己最珍贵的思想。这种载体以日志、自传、论文和记叙文等形式珍藏着我们最深刻的恐惧、最浓烈的爱恋,和最伟大的战绩。它是将世界塑造成如今这般面貌的媒介。
取出一张A4纸,一张平常的普通白纸即可。你不但可以在上面书写绘画,还可以剪裁雕琢。彼得·卡罗森就是这么做的。自2004年开始,他只需要一把小刀、一些胶水、一个富含创意的脑袋和一双极有天赋的双手,就能将二维平面改造成三维立体雕塑。一个魔幻世界从普通A4纸的白色表面上诞生了,无需笔墨也能向人们讲述各种故事。
1967年,卡罗森于丹麦出生。他在丹麦和伦敦上学,主修艺术和建筑。尽管在地球这一边,他的名字并不为人所熟知,但多亏了互联网,他的作品早已深入民心。在这些年里,我已经多次见过他的作品,却依然一次次地被作品讲述的故事以及设计的纯然优美所深深吸引。虽然他的作品有些设计得极其复杂,另一些看起来则非常简单,但每一件都引人遐想,勾起各种回忆,促使我深思其中内涵。
“这些趣味盎然的作品存在于童年那片遗失的乐土之中,介乎于梦想和现实之间,”卡罗森说,“而正是梦想与现实这两种状态的相会或冲突,通过这种乌托邦式的表现形式,让这些艺术作品变得栩栩如生,常常像悲喜剧似地活然纸上。”
卡罗森的大型作品确实非常壮观,但我个人更喜欢他那些细腻的A4纸作品。正如这位艺术家所说的那样:“A4纸或许是今天最常见、最多人使用的信息传播媒介。这也是为什么我们很少注意到A4纸的实际物质性。通过去除所有的信息,从零开始,在空白的白色A4纸上进行个人创作,我觉得自己找到了一种能引起我们所有人共鸣的素材。”
彼得·卡罗森就被不少热衷发掘新奇玩意的网民奉为另类“潮人”——他的一双巧手可以用A4纸制作出各种惊人的立体纸雕,而且不会浪费一丁点儿纸碎!感兴趣的同学不妨到他的网站(www.petercallesen.com)欣赏一下^_^
I love paper. I love the look of paper, I love the feel of paper, and I love the smell of paper – of fresh newspaper, magazines, and books. Paper is the 1)substance that allows its possessor the ability to hold one’s most treasured thoughts in safekeeping. It is the substance that holds dear our greatest fears, our greatest loves, and our greatest triumphs, in the form of journals, 2)autobiographies, 3)treatise, and narratives. It is the medium that has formed and molded the world to the shape it is today.
Take a piece of A4 paper, just a normal ordinary blank one. You can write on it, draw on it, but also cut into it. Peter Callesen does so. Since 2004, he has been transforming 2D surfaces into 3D sculptures simply by means of a knife, some glue, a
super-creative mind and two super-talented hands. From the white surface of ordinary A4 paper, a magical universe arises. Stories are told without ever seeing the pen.
Callesen was born in 1967 in Denmark. He was schooled in Denmark and London in the fields of art and architecture. Although his name may not be immediately recognizable on this side of the globe, his work, thanks to the Internet, certainly is. I have seen his work many times over the years, but still, I have always been quite taken by the stories it tells and the 4)sheer 5)elegance of his designs. Although some of his pieces are highly complex while others appear rather simple in design, each 6)provokes thoughts and memories, forcing me to 7)contemplate their meaning.
“These playful performances exist in the lost land of childhood, between dream and reality,” Callesen said, “and it is in this meeting
or 8)confrontation of these two conditions, in a kind of 9)utopian 10)embodiment, that these works of art become alive, often in a 11)tragicomic way.”
Callesen’s large-scale performances are truly breathtaking, but I kind of prefer his delicate work on A4 paper. As the artist put it, “It is probably the most common and consumed media used for carrying information today. This is why we rarely notice the actual materiality
of the A4 paper. By taking away all the information and starting 12)from scratch, using the blank white A4 paper sheet for my creations,
I feel I have found a material that we are all able to relate to.”
我喜欢纸张。我喜欢纸的样子,喜欢纸的触感,还喜欢纸的味道——无论是新鲜出炉的报纸、杂志还是书籍的味道。纸是一种载体,让持有者保藏自己最珍贵的思想。这种载体以日志、自传、论文和记叙文等形式珍藏着我们最深刻的恐惧、最浓烈的爱恋,和最伟大的战绩。它是将世界塑造成如今这般面貌的媒介。
取出一张A4纸,一张平常的普通白纸即可。你不但可以在上面书写绘画,还可以剪裁雕琢。彼得·卡罗森就是这么做的。自2004年开始,他只需要一把小刀、一些胶水、一个富含创意的脑袋和一双极有天赋的双手,就能将二维平面改造成三维立体雕塑。一个魔幻世界从普通A4纸的白色表面上诞生了,无需笔墨也能向人们讲述各种故事。
1967年,卡罗森于丹麦出生。他在丹麦和伦敦上学,主修艺术和建筑。尽管在地球这一边,他的名字并不为人所熟知,但多亏了互联网,他的作品早已深入民心。在这些年里,我已经多次见过他的作品,却依然一次次地被作品讲述的故事以及设计的纯然优美所深深吸引。虽然他的作品有些设计得极其复杂,另一些看起来则非常简单,但每一件都引人遐想,勾起各种回忆,促使我深思其中内涵。
“这些趣味盎然的作品存在于童年那片遗失的乐土之中,介乎于梦想和现实之间,”卡罗森说,“而正是梦想与现实这两种状态的相会或冲突,通过这种乌托邦式的表现形式,让这些艺术作品变得栩栩如生,常常像悲喜剧似地活然纸上。”
卡罗森的大型作品确实非常壮观,但我个人更喜欢他那些细腻的A4纸作品。正如这位艺术家所说的那样:“A4纸或许是今天最常见、最多人使用的信息传播媒介。这也是为什么我们很少注意到A4纸的实际物质性。通过去除所有的信息,从零开始,在空白的白色A4纸上进行个人创作,我觉得自己找到了一种能引起我们所有人共鸣的素材。”