Video: 3D Paper Skyscrapers by Katsumi Hayakawa
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Who needs skyscrapers, in which it is impossible to live, and sculptures that cannot be touched, and for what? Ask this question to a Japanese artist and designer named Katsumi Hayakawa, - and he will show you an exhibition of his works made of paper, which are either sculptures or models of future futuristic buildings … The author himself prefers to call them three-dimensional paper installations, and they could be seen at the end of last year in a Tokyo gallery MoMo … It's hard to imagine how much time and patience a person should have to create something like this with his own hands. Both big and small at the same time. So, large-scale sculptures, reminiscent of skyscrapers, seem to be created for tiny people, the size of an ant. Moreover, for a whole horde of these ants, judging by the number of tiny windows and doors in paper houses.
Although some fans argue that these are not skyscrapers at all, but pictures of neat Tokyo neighborhoods taken from a satellite or plane. Well, or schemes of underground communications, hidden deep below, under a layer of asphalt and clay. But what kind of constructions it really is, only the author himself knows. And he doesn’t speak. Only shows. One thing is clear: neither ants nor little men will live here.
Possessing truly angelic patience and inhuman endurance, Katsumi Hayakawa probably spent hundreds of man-hours behind his installations, cutting, folding, gluing and combining small pieces of future installations. For diligence - respect, only this is what it all means - remains to be seen …
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