Video: Cities and landmarks from cardboard boxes. Chris Gilmour's large-scale art project
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A person does not have enough life to travel the whole world. But those who crave adventure, impressions, emotions and new landscapes outside the window, they still strive for this. From trips, they usually bring photographs and souvenirs, T-shirts and fridge magnets, and the British artist and sculptor Chris Gilmour - ideas for new creative works. So, the famous master of cardboard sculptures launched a new art project: attractions from cardboard boxes … Some of them are already ready and receive visitors. The project, created at the initiative of the Fellowes company, consists of three large-scale works: cardboard London, Berlin and Paris … To begin with, the sculptor built from boxes the famous symbols of these cities, such world architectural masterpieces as London's Big Ben, Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and the Parisian Eiffel Tower, recognizable in any, even in such an unusual form. While building these religious buildings out of boxes, the author tried not to miss the slightest detail, since the main task was to preserve realism and recreate the landmarks as close as possible to their natural appearance. To work on the World Landmarks project, as well as to create all of his sculptures, he used only boxes, glue and a knife to cut the cardboard.
This large-scale series of sculptures with a long philosophical title “ You can build anything, you just have to turn on your imagination ”(You can build anything when you put your mind on) is one of the most difficult projects Chris Gilmour has had to work on. He needed to study a mountain of literature and revise piles of photographs so that every element of cardboard cities in miniature would end up in its place. In addition, all cardboard figures do not exist separately, but interact with each other, being parts of one whole, so that the team of authors had to build, as they say, cardboard locks. You can see with your own eyes how the work on this project has progressed in the following video:
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