Video: Chris Gilmour's cardboard art
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Usually sculptures are made of stone, plaster, marble, bronze and other metals, but sometimes they are molded from sand, carved from ice, made from cutlery, scotch tape or cardboard. Today we will talk about Chris Gilmour's cardboard sculptures.
The master believes that today cardboard is one of the most convenient and affordable materials for work. Needless to say, even houses and furniture are made of cardboard today. But Chris's work is much finer, despite the fact that all these works are made in full size and without the interference of foreign objects such as wood, metal, wire, rubber, etc. Only glue and cardboard from packing boxes that the sculptor gets from landfills, backyards of shops, in his own attic …
If you take a closer look at the cardboard masterpieces, you can make sure that the master has recreated every, even the tiniest detail of his works from cardboard. By the way, Chris Gilmore makes the smallest details not from rigid packaging cardboard, but from thinner and more pliable one. Such material is used for the manufacture of cigarette packs, condom boxes, chocolates and other little things, which are sold in cardboard packaging.
Serious art can be created from the simplest material, Gilmore believes, and continues to make cardboard scooters, globes, cars, typewriters, musical instruments, household appliances, and sometimes portrait sculptures. Life-size, of course.
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