Video: The Lady of the Paper: Curious Art Objects from an Artist from South Africa
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Artist Barbara Wildenboer is a true lady of paper. The impression of the artist's extraordinary abilities is formed instantly - just look at at least a few of her works. Combining various techniques and environments in her work, the artist creates interesting art objects and installations.
Wildenboer is a true experimenter and connoisseur of simple materials. This review presents art objects created from thin strips of paper, as well as experiments with books. Paper, however, is only one of the artist's tools. She is also interested in blown glass, digital animation, photography and video installations.
The artist has repeatedly been awarded honorary awards and prizes. She was also one of twenty finalists for the 2011 Sovereign African Arts Award in South Africa. Having managed to win the hearts of viewers, she was awarded the Public Choice Prize.
Wildenboer is a regular participant in group exhibitions held both in South Africa, where the artist currently lives, and abroad. So, among the last similar events with her participation, one can name the large international fair Modern Art Fair, which was held in San Francisco this year. The artist's seventh solo exhibition, Disjecta Membra, took place in April 2013 at the Amelia Johnson Contemporary in Hong Kong.
Wildenboer lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. She graduated cum laude from the Michaelis School of Art at the University of Cape Town in 2007. The artist received her bachelor's degree from the University of Pretoria, a state university in the South African city of Pretoria. Wildenboer is currently working on The Lotus Eaters series, which is slated to launch in July 2014. The venue for the exhibition was the Oliewenhuis Art Museum in Bloemfontein, the "judicial capital" of South Africa.
The favorite material of the young Parisian artist and designer Maud Vantours is also paper. The voluminous work of Vantour, made using sheets of colored cardboard, laid in a special way, and scissors, amaze the imagination. Surprisingly, the artist is able to turn such an ordinary material into a real work of art.
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