Friday fruitday #10

I need a new Moleskine!

  

Emily Barletta

Emily Barletta's (recent) work is amazing. It reflects what I love; repetition and stitching. Especially the way she uses colour in her work is very inspiring to me.

Garage Gallery:

'Barletta’s repetitive gestures, marks, and shape building techniques accumulate and combine in mass to create larger works. Each object she makes is to be viewed as a physical container instilled with the memories and experiences that occurred while it was being made. Through her art she builds imaginary machines that organically grow to reference patternmaking, weaving, flesh, blood, cells, plants, topography, molds, and diseases.'

I once set myself to do a stitching project as well (absolutely no comparison!). I loved doing it, but it was extremely more time consuming than I thought when I started out. So I can only imagine how much work Emily Barletta puts into each piece.

Emily has a blog as well.

  

Paper sculptures - Li Hongbo

Chinese artist and designer Li Hongbo makes sculptures out of paper. What first seems like a plaster sculpture turns out to be made out of thousands of layers of paper, glued and carved. The sculptures open like a flexible sculpture. Watch the video to see how it works.

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Li Hongbo demonstrating, how his paper sculptures work.

from Dominik Mersch Gallery on Vimeo.

Li Hongbo - Pure White Paper from Dominik Mersch Gallery on Vimeo.

Aggregation - Chun Kwang Young

Korean contemporary artist Chun Kwang Young is best known for his free-standing compositions and two-dimensional low-reliefs made of small triangles of Styrofoam wrapped in printed mulberry paper, each small piece tied with twisted "threads" of the paper.

Most of the works from his "Aggregation" series have tended to be in monochromatic black-and-white or sepia and rust colors. But for his new pieces Chun has injected striking touches of color.

"When I started the Aggregation in late 1980, I wanted to express and take forward the spirit of Korean traditions using mulberry paper, which used to be indigenous to every Korean household," Then in 2004, my work started to look more like lunar landscapes and dry desert as I wanted to express my anger and criticism toward modern society and how it is destroying environment."

Read more here

  

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