Peter’s work has been mentioned here before, but only in passing, so I thought he deserved a full post highlighting his work. Callesen is a true master of combining the minimalism of a big crisp white sheet of paper with the complexity of meticulously cut and folded paper and uses the two to build out some really beautiful compositions. Particularly amazing are his works where the remains of the cut and folded objects are literally shadows of the objects former self. A skeleton is the shadow of the body; ruins are the shadow of a huge temple. He really brilliantly uses the positive and negative space to tell a sometimes-dark story about the past and future of his subject using only a white sheet of paper.
Tags: callesen, folded paper, paper cuts, Sculpture, white
January 6th, 2010 at 6:16 am
[...] captivated by the paper cutting and sculpture work of Danish artist, Peter Callesen, with thanks to OK Great who posted about him yesterday. Peter forms poetry with a standard white A4 piece of [...]
January 6th, 2010 at 6:17 am
Completely awesome and poetic. Thanks for sharing!
January 8th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
that is soooooooooo cool I like the apple one
January 8th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
the skeleton one is cool too
January 8th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
I have been in love with his work for some time. We had to do a white paper class project in studio, and I showed his work to everyone.
January 11th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
This is shockingly amazing! I love the apple and core.